camel

See also camèl, and camęl

English

A camel (Camelus bactrianus)

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Etymology

Old English, via Old North French camel (Old French chamel , Mod.Fr. chameau ), both from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kamēlos), from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جمل (jamal) and Hebrew גמל (gamal).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkæməl/

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• Rhymes: -æməl

Noun

camel (plural camels)

1. A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus camelus.
2. A light brownish color, tan.
3. Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of a another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.

Related terms

• Bactrian camel
• camelback
• cameleer
• camelopard
• camel toe

Translations

beast of burden

Afrikaans: kameel Akkadian: 𒃵𒂷 (gammal) Albanian: deve (sq) f. Amharic: ግመል (am) (gəmäl) Arabic: جمل (ar) (jámal) m. Aramaic: Syriac: ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā’) c. Hebrew: גמלא (gamlā’) c. Armenian: ուղտ (hy) (uġt) Azeri: dəvə, nər Bashkir: дөйә (döyə) Basque: gamelu (eu) Belarusian: вярблюд (be) Bengali: উট (bn) Bosnian: kamila (bs) f. Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: камила (bg) (kamila) f. Burmese: ကုလားအုတ် (my), ကုလားအုပ် (my) Catalan: camell (ca) m. Chechen: эмкал (emkal) Cherokee: ᎨᎻᎵ (chr) (gemili) Chinese: Mandarin: 駱駝 (cmn), 骆驼 (cmn) (luòtuó) Chuvash: тӗве (tĕve) Croatian: deva (hr) f. Czech: velbloud (cs) m. Danish: kamel (da) c. Dutch: kameel (nl) m. Esperanto: kamelo (eo) Estonian: kaamel (et) Ewe: kposɔ n. Faroese: kamelur (fo) m. Finnish: kameli (fi) French: chameau (fr) m. Friulian: camęl Gagauz: devä Galician: camelo (gl) m. Georgian: აქლემი (ka) (ak‘lemi) German: Kamel (de) n., Trampeltier (de) n. Greek: καμήλα (el) f. Gujarati: ઊંટ (ū.nt') Haitian Creole: chamo Hebrew: גמל (gamal) m. Hindi: ऊँट (ū.nt') m. Hungarian: teve (hu) Icelandic: úlfaldi (is) m. Ido: kamelo Indonesian: unta (id) Irish: camall m. Italian: cammello (it) m. Japanese: 駱駝 (ja), ラクダ (ja) (rakuda) Kalmyk: темән (temän) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Karachay-Balkar: тюе (tüye) Karakalpak: tu'ye Kazakh: түйе (kk) (tùje) Khakas: тибе (tibe) Khmer: អូដ្ធបូកពីរ (’ūdtobobpī) Korean: 낙타 (nakta) Kumyk: тюе (tüye) Kurdish: حوشتر Kyrgyz: төө (ky) (töö) Ladin: camel Latin: camēlus (la) m., camēla (la) f. Latvian: kamielis m. Lithuanian: kupranugaris

Luxembourgish: Kaméil (lb) n. Macedonian: камила (mk) (kámila) f. Malay: unta (ms) Malayalam: ഒട്ടകം (ottakam) Maltese: ġemel (mt) m. Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: тэмээ (mn) Navajo: ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: kamel (no) m. Occitan: camèl (oc) m. Oriya: please add this translation if you can Ossetian: теуа (teua) Persian: شتر (fa) (shotor) Polish: wielbłąd (pl) m. Portuguese: camelo (pt) m. Punjabi: ਊਠ (ūṭh) Romani: gumila f. Romanian: cămilă (ro) f. Romansch: chamel Russia Buryat: тэмээн (temeen) Russian: верблюд (ru) (verbljúd) m. Sami: kamela Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Sardinian: camellu, cammellu Scottish: càmhal Serbian: Cyrillic: камила (sr) f. Roman: kamila f. Sindhi: اُٺُ m., ڏاچِي f. Sinhalese: ඔටුවා (si) Slovak: ťava (sk) f., dromedár (sk) m. Slovene: kamela (sl) f., velblod (sl) m. Southern Altai: тӧӧ (töö) Spanish: camello (es) m., dromedario (es) m. Sumerian: 𒄞𒆳𒋛𒄮𒊏𒀭 (AM.SI.ḪAR.RA.AN) Swahili: ngamia (sw) Swedish: kamel (sv) c., dromedar (sv) c. Tajik: шутур (tg) (şutur), уштур (tg) (uştur) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tatar: döyä (tt), täwä (tt) Telugu: ఒంటె (oMTe), లొట్టిపిట్ట (loTTipiTTa) Thai: อูฐ (ūth) Tigrinya: ገመል (ti) (gämäl) Turkish: deve (tr), hecin (tr) Turkmen: düýe (tk) Tuvan: теве (teve) Udmurt: дуэ  (due) Ukrainian: верблюд (uk) (verbljud) m. Upper Sorbian: kamel Urdu: اُونٹ (ū.nt') m. Uyghur: tɵgə Uzbek: tuya (uz) Venetian: camèło m. Vietnamese: lạc đà (vi) Volapük: (male or female) jamod (vo), (male) hijamod (vo), (female) jijamod (vo), (male or female offspring, young) jamodül (vo), (male offspring, young) hijamodül (vo), (female offspring, young) jijamodül (vo) Walloon: chamo (wa) Welsh: camel (cy) m. West Frisian: kamiel c. Wolof: giléem (wo) Yakut: тэбиэн (tebien) Yiddish: קעמל (yi) (keml) m.

See also

• alpaca
• arabian
• dromedary
• guanaco
• hump
• llama
• vicuña

Anagrams

• calme

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Anglo-Norman

Etymology

Latin camēlus

Noun

camel m. (oblique plural camelz, nominative singular camelz, nominative plural camel)

1. camel

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Tocharian B

Noun

camel

1. birth