Simoom vs Samiel - What's the difference?
simoom | samiel |
A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularity of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
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As nouns the difference between simoom and samiel
is that simoom is a hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularity of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains while samiel is a hot desert wind, simoom.simoom
English
(wikipedia simoom)Noun
(en noun)The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom . Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.