- a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
- a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
- any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.
- a hot oppressive and often dusty wind usually occurring in spring, beginning in N Africa and reaching S Europe
- any hot southerly wind, esp one moving to a low pressure centre
