simoom
/sɪˈmuːm
/(also simoon /sɪˈmuːn/)
noun
A hot, dry, dust-laden wind blowing in the desert, especially in Arabia.It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan....
- From this soil sprouts stately guitar arpeggios and hesitant piano refrains that occasionally meet billowing dark ambient winds and shrivel up like a flower of the desert that senses a simoon coming from afar.
- Does he expect the Bedouins led by Rudolph Valentino to come sweeping like the simoom out of the desert?
Origin
Late 18th century: from Arabic samūm, from samma 'to poison'.