Samiel

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  samiel
       n : a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and
           North Africa [syn: {simoom}, {simoon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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