Samiel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Samiel	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Samiel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
samiel n a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa Synonym(s): simoom, simoon, samiel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.