samiel
(ˈsɑːmɪəl)
Also 8 sameyel.
[a. Turkish samyel, f. sam a. Arab. samm (see simoom) + yel wind.]
The Simoom.
(Sometimes confused with shamal, north wind.)
| 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 54 Having spoken so much of the Samiel, it is but reasonable I should relate what I have been told of it. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) I. 153 A very dangerous wind prevails, which the natives [of Persia] call the sameyel. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 49 The samiel or mortifying wind of the deserts near Bagdad. 1817 Moore Lalla R., Veiled Prophet (ed. 2) 90 Burning and headlong as the Samiel wind. 1832 J. Bell Syst. Geogr. IV. 231 The most dreadful of all winds is the famous semoum or samiel,..which prevails in the desert bounded by Bassora, Bagdad, Aleppo, and Mekka, and the effects of which are suffocation and immediate putrefaction of the body. 1962 [see leveche]. |