单词 | simoom |
释义 | si·moom (sĭ-mm) 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 samūm, from samma, to poison, from Aramaic sammā, drug, poison; see śmm in the Appendix of Semitic roots.] |
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