Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Samiel \Sa"mi*el\ (?; 277), n. [Turk. sam-yeli; Ar. samm poison
   + Turk. yel wind. Cf. {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.

Source : WordNet®

samiel
     n : a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and
         North Africa [syn: {simoom}, {simoon}]