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simoom

Meaningto poison

Common meaning: a hot desert wind

Journey through time

  1. Arabicsamma‘he poisoned’source
  2. Arabicmeaning shiftshe poisoned → a pestilential windsamum‘a pestilential wind’source
  3. Englishsimoom‘a hot desert wind’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Arabic samma ‘to poison’.

Roots

  • samma Arabic “to poison”

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