neem

English

A neem

Neem branches with its flowers.

Alternative forms

• nim

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /niːm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

neem (plural neems)

1. Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 108:

     He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.

Synonyms

• (Azadirachta indica): margosa, peelu, chinaberry, white cedar, Persian lilac, syringa berry, bead tree, azedarach

Derived terms

• neem cake
• neem oil

Translations

Azadirachta indica

• Acehnese: beuëng
• Oromo: daboobessa
• Arabic: أَزَادَرْخَت (ar) m (ʔazādarḵat) (see it for variations), شِرِيش m (širīš)
• Assamese: নিম (nim)
• Bengali: নিম (bn) (nim)
• Burmese: တမာပင် (ta.mapang), တမာ (my) (ta.ma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度苦楝 (yìndùkǔliàn)

• Czech: azadirachta indická
• Danish: neemtræ
• Farefare: nimi
• Finnish: neempuu (fi)
• Gujarati: લીમડો (gu) (līmḍo)
• Hausa: nim, maina, darbejiya
• Hindi: नीम (hi) m (nīm)
• Jarai: tăng liăng
• Kannada: ಬೇವು (kn) (bēvu)
• Khmer: ស្ដៅ (km) (sdav)
• Korean: 님나무 (nimnamu)
• Malay: mambu (ms)
• Malayalam: ആര്യവേപ്പ് (ml) (āryavēppŭ)
• Nepali: नीम (nīm)
• Odia: ନିମ୍ବ (nimba)
• Persian: چریش
• Portuguese: amargoseira (pt) f, nim (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਨਿੰਮ (pa) f (nimm)

  Shahmukhi: نِمّ f (nimm)

• Russian: ним (ru) m (nim), ни́им (níim), азадира́хта инди́йская f (azadiráxta indíjskaja)
• Sinhalese: කොහොඹ (kohoᵐba)
• Spanish: nim (es) m, margosa (es) f
• Swahili: mwarobaini
• Tamil: வேம்பு (ta) (vēmpu), வேப்பமரம் (ta) (vēppamaram)
• Telugu: వేప (te) (vēpa)
• Thai: สะเดา (th) (sàdao)
• Urdu: نِیم (nīm)
• Vietnamese: sầu đâu, thầu đâu

Anagrams

• -neme, em- -en, mene

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːm
• IPA^(key): /neːm/

Verb

neem

1. inflection of nemen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• meen, mene, neme

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neemi.

Noun

neem (genitive neeme, partitive neeme)

1. (geography) cape, promontory, headland

Declension

Declension of neem (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		neem	neemed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	neeme
genitive			neemede
partitive		neeme	neemi neemesid
illative		neeme neemesse	neemedesse neemisse
inessive		neemes	neemedes neemis
elative		neemest	neemedest neemist
allative		neemele	neemedele neemile
adessive		neemel	neemedel neemil
ablative		neemelt	neemedelt neemilt
translative		neemeks	neemedeks neemiks
terminative		neemeni	neemedeni
essive		neemena	neemedena
abessive		neemeta	neemedeta
comitative		neemega	neemedega

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• nööm (Föhr-Amrum)
• noome (Mooring)
• Naam (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Noun

neem m (plural Naamer)

1. (Heligoland) name