bora
BOH-rah
A cold, dry, fierce wind that blows from the northeast down the Dinaric Alps to the Adriatic coast, mainly in winter. It arrives in violent gusts and can sustain gale force for days, making the eastern Adriatic one of the windiest coastlines in Europe.
Etymology
From the Greek Boreas, the god of the north wind. The word may originally have meant "wind from the mountains."
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