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单词 samiel
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samieln.

/ˈsɑːmɪəl/
Forms: Also 1700s sameyel.
Etymology: < Turkish samyel, < sam < Arabic samm (see simoom n.) + yel wind.
The Simoom.Sometimes confused with shamal n., north wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > from African and Asiatic deserts
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1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 54 Having spoken so much of the Samiel, it is but reasonable I should relate what I have been told of it.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth 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 T. Moore Veiled Prophet in Lalla Rookh (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 J. E. Van Riper Man's Physical World vii. 222/2 The Mediterranean area also is the home of a hot, searing, dust-laden wind off the Sahara, known in various localities as sirocco, khamsin, leveche, or samiel.
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