si·moom (s -m m ) also si·moon (-mn)n. 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 sam  m, from samma, to poison, from Aramaic samm , drug, poison; see  mm in Semitic roots.] |
simoom [sɪˈmuːm], simoon [sɪˈmuːn]
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(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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| Noun | 1. |  simoom - a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africaair 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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