samiel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa
    simoon; simoom.

WordNet

Sa"mi*el noun
Etymology
Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison + Turk. yel wind. Cf. Simoom.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913