camel

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæməl/

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• Rhymes: -æməl
• Hyphenation: ca‧mel

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).

camel (plural camels)

1. 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: […] [R. Robinson for] 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, […]

2. A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).

   camel:  

3. Loaded vessels lashed tightly, one on each side of another vessel, and then emptied to reduce the draught of the ship in the middle.
4. (ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A person of Middle Eastern origin.

• → Coeur d'Alene: keemel
• → Eastern Arrernte: kamule
• → Tsonga: kamela

camel (not comparable)

1. 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.

• → Spanish: cámel

From Afrikaans kameel.

camel (plural camels)

1. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe

• camel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Malec, calme, macle

• camelle, kamel, kamell, camell, cammel, camayle, camaile, camaille, cameylle, camele
• (From Central Old French) chamel, chamayle, schamelle, chamelle, chamell, chamoil

From Old Northern French camel, cameil, from Latin camēlus. Some forms are from or influenced by Old French chamel, chamoil.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamɛl/, /kaˈmɛːl/, /kaˈmæi̯l/
• (From Central Old French) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃamɛl/, /t͡ʃaˈmɛːl/, /t͡ʃaˈmæi̯l/

camel (plural cameles)

1. camel (mammal of the genus Camelus)

• English: camel
• Scots: camel

• “camē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-1.

See chamel.

camel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cameus, nominative singular cameus, nominative plural camel)

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) camel

An action noun from täm- (“be born”). Compare Tocharian A cmol.

camel n

1. birth, rebirth

   alyek cmelne ṣpä ñäkcye cmetsi śaiṣṣene

   and to be born in the divine world in another birth