• (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/samiel/
Sa'mi·el noun [ Turk. sam- yeli ; Arabic samm poison + Turk. yel wind. Confer Simoom .] A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/11