dromedary

English

A dromedary

Etymology

From Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedarius (“kind of camel”), from Classical Latin dromas, dromadis, from Ancient Greek δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”), from δρόμος (drómos, “race course”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒm.ə.də.ɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑmədeɹɪ/

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Noun

dromedary (plural dromedaries)

1. Camelus dromedarius, the single-humped camel.
2. Any swift riding camel.

Synonyms

• Arabian camel
• dromedary camel
• Camelus aegyptiacus Friedrich August Rudolph Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus africanus Gloger, 1841
• Camelus arabicus Charles Desmoulins, 1823
• Camelus dromas Peter Simon Pallas, 1811
• Camelus dromos Kerr, 1792
• Camelus ferus Falk,1786
• Camelus lukius Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus polytrichus Kolenati, 1847
• Camelus turcomanichus Johann Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
• Camelus vulgaris Kolenati, 1847

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Related terms

• ship of the desert

Translations

Camelus dromedarius, the single-humped camel

• Afrikaans: dromedaris
• Albanian: gamilja
• Arabic: جَمَل عَرَبِيّ m (jamal ʕarabiyy, literally “Arabian camel”)

  Egyptian Arabic: هجين m (hagīn)

• Basque: dromedario (eu)
• Belarusian: драмадэ́р m (dramadér)
• Breton: dremedal m
• Bulgarian: едногъ́рба ками́ла f (ednogǎ́rba kamíla)
• Catalan: dromedari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單峰駝／单峰驼 (zh) (dānfēngtuó), 单峰驼 (zh) (dānfēngtuó), 單峰駱駝／单峰骆驼 (dānfēng luòtuo), 单峰骆驼 (dānfēng luòtuo)

• Czech: dromedár (cs) m
• Danish: dromedar c
• Dutch: dromedaris (nl) m
• Esperanto: dromedaro
• Estonian: dromedar
• Faroese: dromedarur m
• Finnish: dromedaari (fi), yksikyttyräinen kameli (fi)
• French: dromadaire (fr) m
• Friulian: dromedari m
• Galician: dromedario (gl) m
• Georgian: ცალკუზა აქლემი (calḳuza aklemi)
• German: Dromedar (de) n
• Greek: δρομάς f (dromás)

  Ancient: δρομάς f (dromás)

• Gujarati: સાંઢણી (sā̃ḍhṇī)
• Hebrew: כרכרה (khirkhôrah)
• Hindi: ऊँट (hi) m (ū̃ṭ), सांडनी f (sāṇḍnī)
• Hungarian: dromedár (hu), egypúpú teve
• Icelandic: drómedari m
• Irish: dromadaire m
• Italian: dromedario (it) m
• Japanese: ヒトコブラクダ (hitokobu rakuda), 一瘤駱駝 (ひとこぶらくだ, hitokobu rakuda)
• Kazakh: нар (nar)
• Khmer: អូដ្ឋបូគមួយ (ʼoutthɑɑboukmuəy)
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• Korean: 단봉낙타 (ko) (danbongnakta)
• Latin: dromedaria f
• Latvian: dromedārs m
• Macedonian: дромедар m (dromedar)
• Manx: drommeyder
• Mongolian: ганц бөхт тэмээ (ganc böxt temee), наран тэмээ (naran temee)
• Norman: dromadaire m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dromedar (no) m

  Nynorsk: dromedar m

• Occitan: dromadari (oc)
• Persian: شتر (fa) (šotor)
• Polish: dromader (pl) m, wielbłąd jednogarbny m
• Portuguese: dromedário (pt) m
• Romanian: dromader (ro)
• Romansch: dromedar
• Russian: одного́рбый верблю́д m (odnogórbyj verbljúd), дромаде́р (ru) m (dromadér), дромеда́р (ru) m (dromedár), (camel or dromedary) верблю́д (ru) m (verbljúd)
• Sami: dromedára
• Sardinian: dromedàriu
• Scottish Gaelic: dromadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дромедар m, једногрба камила f, једногрба дева f

  Roman: dromedar (sh) m, jednogrba kamila f, jednogrba deva f

• Slovak: dromedár (sk) m
• Slovene: dromedar (sl) m
• Spanish: dromedario (es) m
• Swedish: dromedar (sv)
• Turkish: hecin (tr), tek hörgüçlü deve (tr)
• Ukrainian: дромаде́р m (dromadér)
• Upper Sorbian: wjelbłud
• Urdu: اونٹ m (ū̃ṭ), سانڈنی f (sāṇḍnī)
• Vietnamese: lạc đà một bướu, lạc đà Ả Rập
• Welsh: camel rhedeg
• West Frisian: drommedaris

See also

• dromedary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation