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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English camel, through Old English camel and Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal), Hebrew גמל (gamál) and Aramaic ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā).
Noun
camel (plural camels)
- A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
- Synonym: (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) oont
- Hypernym: camelid
- Hyponyms: Bactrian camel, dromedary
- Coordinate terms: llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna, vicuña; more at Category:en:Camelids
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe,
That we may trauell into Siria, […]
- A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
camel:
- Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.
- (ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A person of Middle Eastern origin.
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Translations
beast of burden
- Abkhaz: амахҽ (amaxĉ)
- Acehnese: unta
- Adyghe: махъчэ (maχčɛ), махъушэ (maχʷušɛ)
- Afar: rakúb
- Afrikaans: kameel (af)
- Akan: afunupɔnkɔ
- Akkadian: 𒃵𒂷 (gammal)
- Albanian: deve (sq) f
- Amharic: ግመል (gəmäl)
- Apache:
- Western Apache: bigháń háʼááhí
- Arabic: جَمَل (ar) m (jamal), نَاقَة (ar) f (nāqa), بَعِير (baʕīr), إِبِل (ar) (ʔibil)
- Egyptian Arabic: جمل m (gamal)
- Aragonese: camello m
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: גמלא c (gamlā’)
- Syriac: ܓܡܠܐ c (gamlā’)
- Armenian: ուղտ (hy) (uġt)
- Assamese: উট (ut)
- Asturian: camellu (ast) m, camella (ast) f
- Avar: варани (warani)
- Avestan: 𐬎𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬀 (uštra)
- Azerbaijani: dəvə (az), nər
- Baluchi: اشتر (uštar), ہشتر (huštir, huštur)
- Bashkir: дөйә (döyə)
- Basque: gamelu (eu)
- Bau Bidayuh: unta
- Belarusian: вярблю́д m (vjarbljúd)
- Bengali: উট (bn) (uṭ)
- Bikol Central: kamelyo (bcl)
- Breton: kañval Baktria ?
- Brunei Malay: unta
- Bulgarian: ками́ла (bg) f (kamíla)
- Burmese: ကုလားအုတ် (my) (ku.la:ut), ကုလားအုပ် (ku.la:up)
- Buryat: тэмээн (temeen)
- Catalan: camell (ca) m
- Central Melanau: utak
- Chakma: 𑄅𑄑𑄴 (uṭ), 𑄃𑄪𑄑𑄴 (uṭ)
- Cham:
- Eastern Cham: please add this translation if you can
- Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
- Chechen: эмкал (emkal)
- Cherokee: ᎨᎻᎵ (gemili)
- Chichewa: ngamira
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 駱駝/骆驼 (lok3 to4)
- Dungan: луәтуә (luətuə)
- Eastern Min: 駱駝/骆驼 (lŏk-dò̤)
- Hakka: 駱駝/骆驼 (lo̍k-thò)
- Hokkien: 駱駝/骆驼 (zh-min-nan) (lo̍k-tô)
- Mandarin: 駱駝/骆驼 (zh) (luòtuó)
- Wu: 駱駝/骆驼 (8loq-du)
- Chuvash: тӗве (tĕve)
- Coptic: ϫⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ m (čamoul)
- Czech: velbloud (cs) m
- Danish: kamel (da) c
- Dhivehi: ޖަމަލު (jamalu), އޮށް (oṣ̊) (male)
- Dutch: kameel (nl) m
- Eastern Arrernte: kamule
- Erzya: дуе (duje), ишем (išem)
- Esperanto: kamelo (eo)
- Estonian: kaamel (et)
- Evenki: тэве̄н (təwēn)
- Ewe: kposɔ n
- Farefare: yʋgnɛ
- Faroese: kamelur m
- Finnish: kameli (fi)
- French: chameau (fr) m, chamelle (fr) f
- Friulian: camęl ?
- Gagauz: devä
- Galician: camelo (gl) m
- Georgian: აქლემი (aklemi)
- German: Kamel (de) n
- Gondi: ఊటడ్ (ūṭaḍ)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 m (ulbandus)
- Greek: καμήλα (el) f (kamíla)
- Ancient: κάμηλος m or f (kámēlos)
- Guaraní: mymba'akãndu
- Gujarati: ઊંટ (gu) m (ū̃ṭa)
- Haitian Creole: chamo
- Hausa: raƙumi m
- Hebrew: גָּמָל (he) m (gamál), נָאקָה (he) f (naká), בֶּכֶר (he) m (bécher) (young camel)
- Hindi: ऊँट (hi) m (ū̃ṭ), उष्ट्र (hi) m (uṣṭra), शुतुर (hi) m (śutur), उंट (hi) m (uṇṭ)
- Hinukh: (ʡomokilu)
- Hungarian: teve (hu)
- Icelandic: úlfaldi (is) m
- Ido: kamelo (io)
- Indonesian: unta (id)
- Ingrian: verbljuda
- Iranun: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: camall m
- Italian: cammello (it) m, cammella f
- Japanese: 駱駝 (ja) (らくだ, rakuda), ラクダ (ja) (rakuda)
- Javanese: ꦲꦸꦤ꧀ꦠ (jv) (unta), ꦲꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠ (onta)
- Kabiyé: aɖaɖa
- Kabyle: alɣem
- Kalmyk: темән (temän)
- Kannada: ಒಂಟೆ (kn) (oṇṭe)
- Karachay-Balkar: тюе (tüye)
- Karakalpak: tu'ye
- Kashmiri: ووٗنٛٹ m (vū̃ṭ), ووٗنٛٹِنؠ f (vūnṭin'), वूँट m (vū̃ṭ)
- Kazakh: түйе (tüie)
- Khakas: тибе (tibe)
- Khmer: អូដ្ឋ (ʼout)
- Korean: 낙타(駱駝) (ko) (nakta), 락타(駱駝) (ko) (rakta) (North Korea)
- Kumyk: тюе (tüye)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: حوشتر (ckb) (ḧuştir), وشتر (wiştir)
- Northern Kurdish: hêştir (ku) f, deve (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: төө (ky) (töö)
- Ladin: camel ?
- Ladino: gameyo m
- Lak: варани (warani)
- Lao: ອູດ (lo) (ʼūt)
- Latin: camēlus m, camēla f
- Latvian: kamielis m
- Laz: აქრემი (akremi), აქლემი (aklemi)
- Lezgi: лавар (lavar), деве (deve)
- Lithuanian: kupranugaris (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Kaméil (lb) n
- Macedonian: камила f (kamila)
- Maguindanao: onta
- Malay: unta (ms)
- Malayalam: ഒട്ടകം (ml) (oṭṭakaṁ)
- Maltese: ġemel (mt) m
- Manchu: ᡨᡝᠮᡝᠨ (temen)
- Maranao: onta
- Marathi: उंट ? (uṇṭa)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: верблюд (verbĺud)
- Middle English: olfent, camel
- Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭱𐭲𐭫 (ʾʿštl /uštar/)
- Mingrelian: არქემი (arkemi)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тэмээ (mn) (temee)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡ (temege)
- Moore: yʋgemde
- Nanai: тэмэн (temen)
- Nandi: tombes
- Navajo: ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii
- Nepali: ऊँट (ne) (ū̃ṭ)
- Norman: chanmeau m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kamel (no) m
- Nynorsk: kamel m
- Occitan: camèl (oc) m
- Odia: ଓଟ (oṭô)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: вельбѫдъ m (velĭbǫdŭ)
- Old East Slavic: вельблѫдъ m (velĭblǫdŭ)
- Old English: olfend m
- Old Persian: 𐎢𐏁𐎰𐎼 (u-š-θ-r /ušθra/), 𐎢𐏁 (u-š /uša/)
- Oromo: gaala (om)
- Ossetian: теуа (tewa)
- Ottoman Turkish: دوه (deve)
- Pali: oṭṭha m
- Pashto: اوښ (ps) (ūẍ)
- Persian: شتر (fa) (šotor), اشتر (fa) (oštor)
- Pitjantjatjara: auru
- Plautdietsch: Kameel m
- Polish: wielbłąd (pl) m
- Portuguese: camelo (pt) m, camela (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਊਠ (pa) m (ūṭha)
- Western Panjabi: اوٹھ (ūṭh)
- Rajasthani: ओठारू ? (oṭhārū)
- Rohingya: uñth
- Romani: gumila f
- Romanian: cămilă (ro) f
- Romansch: chamel ?
- Russian: верблю́д (ru) m (verbljúd)
- Rwanda-Rundi: ingamiya, indogoba
- Saho: gaala
- Sanskrit: उष्ट्र (sa) m (uṣṭra)
- Sardinian: camellu m, cammellu m
- Scottish Gaelic: càmhal m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̀мила f, де́ва f
- Roman: kàmila (sh) f, déva (sh) f
- Shona: ngamera
- Sicilian: jamiḍḍu m
- Sidamo: gaala
- Sindhi: اُٺُ (sd) m, ڏاچِي f
- Sinhalese: ඔටුවා (oṭuwā)
- Slovak: ťava (sk) f, dromedár (sk) m
- Slovene: kamela (sl) f, velblod (sl) m
- Sogdian: ݎܘܫܬܪ (xuštar)
- Somali: geel (so), awr (so)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kamel m, kamelka f
- Upper Sorbian: kamel m
- Southern Altai: тӧӧ (töö)
- Spanish: camello (es) m, dromedario (es) m, camella (es) f
- Sumerian: 𒄞𒆳𒋛𒄮𒊏𒀭 (AM.SI.ḪAR.RA.AN)
- Swahili: ngamia (sw) class 9/10
- Swedish: kamel (sv) c, dromedar (sv) c
- Sylheti: ꠃꠐ (uṭ)
- Tagalog: kamelyo
- Tajik: шутур (šutur), уштур (uštur)
- Tal: raƙumi
- Tamil: ஒட்டகம் (ta) (oṭṭakam)
- Tarifit: arɣem m
- Tatar: дөя (tt) (döya)
- Tausug: onta
- Telugu: ఒంటె (te) (oṇṭe), లొట్టిపిట్ట (te) (loṭṭipiṭṭa)
- Thai: อูฐ (th) (ùut), โลโต (th) (loo-dtoo) (archaic)
- Tibetan: རྔ་མོང (rnga mong), རྔ་བོང (rnga bong), རྔ་མོ (rnga mo)
- Tigrinya: ገመል (ti) (gämäl)
- Tooro: engamiya class 9, engamira class 9
- Tswana: (please verify) kamela class 4, (please verify) kammêla class 9
- Tulu: ಒಂಟೆ (oṇṭe)
- Turkish: deve (tr), hecin (tr)
- Turkmen: düýe
- Tuvan: теве (teve)
- Udi: буш (buš)
- Udmurt: дуэ (due)
- Ukrainian: верблю́д (uk) m (verbljúd)
- Urdu: اونٹ m (ū̃ṭ)
- Uyghur: تۆگە (ug) (töge)
- Uzbek: tuya (uz)
- Venetian: camèło m
- Vietnamese: lạc đà (vi) (駱駝)
- Volapük: jamod (vo)
- Voro: kaamli
- Walloon: chamo (wa) m
- Welsh: camel m
- West Frisian: kamiel c
- Wolof: giléem (wo)
- Yakan: unta'
- Yakut: тэбиэн (tebien)
- Yiddish: קעמל m (keml)
- Yoruba: ràkùnmí
- Zazaki: deve (diq)
- Zhuang: lozdoz
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Adjective
camel (not comparable)
- Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
1999, New Woman, volume 29, page 212:[…] try to select accessories that are in the same color family as your coat," says millinery designer Patricia Underwood. To pick up the weave of a brown tweed jacket, for instance, choose a camel hat and black gloves.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Afrikaans kameel.
Noun
camel (plural camels)
- (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- camelle, kamel, kamell, camell, cammel, camayle, camaile, camaille, cameylle, camele
- (From Central Old French) chamel, chamayle, schamelle, chamelle, chamell, chamoil
Etymology
From Old Northern French camel, cameil, from Latin camēlus. Some forms are from or influenced by Old French chamel, chamoil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkamɛl/, /kaˈmɛːl/, /kaˈmæi̯l/
- (From Central Old French) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃamɛl/, /t͡ʃaˈmɛːl/, /t͡ʃaˈmæi̯l/
Noun
camel (plural cameles)
- camel (mammal of the genus Camelus)
Descendants
References
Old French
Etymology
See chamel.
Noun
camel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cameus, nominative singular cameus, nominative plural camel)
- (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) camel
Tocharian B
Etymology
An action noun from täm- (“be born”). Compare Tocharian A cmol.
Noun
camel n
- birth, rebirth
alyek cmelne ṣpä ñäkcye cmetsi śaiṣṣene- and to be born in the divine world in another birth