simoom

si·moom (s

-m

) also si·moon (-m

)

A strong, hot, sand-laden wind of the Sahara and Arabian deserts: "Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar" (James Joyce). Also called samiel.

[Arabic samm, from samma, to poison, from Aramaic samm, drug, poison; see mm in Semitic roots.]

simoom [sɪˈmuːm], simoon [sɪˈmuːn]

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa Also called samiel

[from Arabic samūm poisonous, from sam poison, from Aramaic sammā poison]

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simoom - a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa

samiel, 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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air current current of air samiel simoon Sumoom wind	So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoom, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context With it, every thing is possible; without it, I fall back into the dangers and difficulties as well as the natural obstacles that ordinarily attend such an expedition: with it, neither heat, nor torrents, nor tempests, nor the simoom, nor unhealthy climates, nor wild animals, nor savage men, are to be feared Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context The pastoral slopes of the valley below were cloaked in lustre-leather: the rare watercourses along the road had faded from the waiting eye and ear; it seemed as if the long and dry summer had even invaded the close-set ranks of pines, and had blown a simoom breath through the densest woods, leaving its charred red ashes on every leaf and spray along the tunnelled shade. Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context	Simon Kuznets Simon Legree Simon Magus Simon Marks Simon Newcomb Simon Peter Simon the Canaanite Simon the Zealot Simon Zelotes simon-pure Simone de Beauvoir Simone Weil simoniac Simoniacal Simonial Simonian Simonides Simonides of Ceos Simonious Simonise simonism Simonist Simoniz simonize simony simoom simoon Simous simp Simpai simpatico simper Simperer simpering simperingly simple simple absence simple closed curve Simple contract Simple equation simple eye simple fraction simple fracture simple fruit simple harmonic motion simple interest Simple larceny simple leaf simple machine Simple Mail Transfer Protocol simple mastectomy	Simonov, Ivan Simonov, Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov, Konstantin Simonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, Nikolai Simonov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Simonov, Ruben Simonov, Ruben Nikolaevich Simonov, Sergei Simonov, Sergei Gavrilovich Simonovskii, Petr Simonovskii, Petr Ivanovich Simonpietri Hemisferica Sa Simons Simons Simons Valley Hockey Association Simons' Pond Music Festival Simons, Menno Simons, Walter Simonsiella Simonsiellaceae Simonstown Simonui simony simony simony Simonyi, Charles simoom Simoom or Simoon Simoom or Simoon simooms simooms simoon simoon simoons simoons SIMOP SIMOPS SIMOR Simos Simous Simov Simov, Viktor Simov, Viktor Andreevich Simovic, Dušan Simovic, Dusan SIMOX SIMOX Simoxil Simoxil simp simp Simpa SIMPAC SIMPAC Simpai SIMPAR SIMPAS

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So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoom, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

With it, every thing is possible; without it, I fall back into the dangers and difficulties as well as the natural obstacles that ordinarily attend such an expedition: with it, neither heat, nor torrents, nor tempests, nor the simoom, nor unhealthy climates, nor wild animals, nor savage men, are to be feared

Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context

The pastoral slopes of the valley below were cloaked in lustre-leather: the rare watercourses along the road had faded from the waiting eye and ear; it seemed as if the long and dry summer had even invaded the close-set ranks of pines, and had blown a simoom breath through the densest woods, leaving its charred red ashes on every leaf and spray along the tunnelled shade.

Devil's Ford by Harte, Bret View in context

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