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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa;
[syn: simoom, simoon, samiel]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Samiel \Sa"mi*el\ (?; 277), n. [Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison + Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.] A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

samiel n 1: a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa [syn: simoom, simoon, samiel]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "samiel": Santa Ana, chinook, chinook wind, devil, dust storm, foehn, harmattan, hot wind, khamsin, peesash, sandstorm, shaitan, simoom, sirocco, snow eater, solano, thawer, volcanic wind