simoom
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
simoom /sɪˈmuːm/ (also simoon /-ˈmuːn/)
▶noun a hot, dry, dust-laden wind blowing in the desert, especially in Arabia.
– origin C18: from Arab. samūm, from samma ‘to poison’.
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