simoon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: simoon	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for simoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
simoon 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]:
Simoom \Simoom"\, Simoon* \Si*moon"\, n. [Ar. sam[?]m, fr. samma to poison. Cf. {Samiel}.] A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.