Simoom vs Samoom - What's the difference?
simoom | samoom |
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 samoom
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 samoom is archaic form of lang=en.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.