samiel

sam·iel

S0054575 (säm-yĕl′)n. See simoom.

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[Turkish samyeli, from Ottoman Turkish sām yeli : Arabic sāmm, poisonous, poisonous thing, active participle of samma, to poison; see simoom + Ottoman Turkish yeli, its wind (yel, wind from Old Turkic yé⋮l + -i, suffix indicating possession by a third person singular possessor, from Old Turkic).]

samiel

(ˈsæmjɛl) n (Physical Geography) another word for simoom[C17: from Turkish samyeli, from sam poisonous + yel wind]

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samiel - a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africasimoom, simoonair current, current of air, wind - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"