Found 2 items, similar to simoom.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: simoom simoom n : a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa [syn: simoon, samiel]
English → English (gcide) Definition: simoom 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. [1913 Webster]