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(säm-yĕl′)

[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).]

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samiel

(ˈsæmjɛl)

(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 Africa

simoom, simoon

air 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"

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