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Complete Definition of "camel"

see|camèl|camęl
English
wikipedia
Image:Camel seitlich trabend.jpg|thumb|right|A camel (camelus bactrianus)

Etymology
Old English < Latin camelus < Greek κάμηλος (kamēlos), of Semitic origin; compare Arabic ARchar|جمل (jamal) and Hebrew גמל (gamal).

Pronunciation
IPA|/'kæməl/
audio|en-us-camel.ogg|Audio (US)

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æməl|-æməl

Noun
en-noun

  1. A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus camelus.
  2. 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.

Translations

Afrikaans: kameel
Albanian: deve f
Arabic: Arab|جمل (jámal) m
Aramaic:
:Syriac: ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā, gamlo) c
:Hebrew: גמלא (gamlā, gamlo) c
Armenian: ուղտ (ught)
Azeri: dəvə
trreq|Basque
trreq|Bengali
Bosnian: kamila#Bosnian|kamila f
trreq|Breton
Bulgarian: камила (kamila) f
trreq|Burmese
Catalan: camell m
Chinese: 駱駝, 骆驼 (luòtuó)
trreq|Chuvash
Croatian: kamila f, deva f
Czech: velbloud m
Danish: kamel g|Danish
Dutch: kameel m
Esperanto: kamelo
Estonian: kaamel
Ewe: kposɔ n
Faroese: kamelur m
Finnish: kameli
French: chameau m
Frisian: kamiel g|Frisian
Friulian: camęl
Galician: camelo m
Georgian: აქლემი (ak‘lemi)
German: Kamel n, Trampeltier n
Greek: καμήλα f
Gujarati: ઊંટ (ū.nt')
Hebrew: גמל (gamal) m
Hindi: ऊँट (ū.nt') m
Hungarian: teve
Icelandic: úlfaldi m
Ido: kamelo
trreq|Indonesian
Irish: camall m
Italian: cammello m
Japanese: 駱駝, ラクダ (rakuda)
trreq|Kannada
trreq|Khmer
Korean: 낙타 (nakta)
Kurdish: KUchar|حوشتر
mid
Ladin: camel
Latin: camelus m, camela f
Latvian: kamielis g|Latvian
Lithuanian: kupranugaris g|Lithuanian
Macedonian: камила (kamila) f
Malay: unta
Malayalam: ഒട്ടകം (ottakam)
Maltese: ġemel m
trreq|Marathi
Mongolian: тэмээ
trreq|Nepali
Norwegian: kamel m
Occitan: camèl m
trreq|Oriya
Persian: FAchar|شتر (shotor)
Polish: wielbłąd m
Portuguese: camelo m
Punjabi: ਊਠ (ūṭh)
Romanian: cămilă f
Romansh: chamel
Romany: gumila f
Russian: верблюд (v'erbljúd) m
Sami: kamela
trreq|Sanskrit
Sardinian: camellu, cammellu
Scottish: càmhal
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: камила#Serbian|камила f
:Roman: kamila#Serbian|kamila f
Sindhi: SDchar|اُٺُ m, SDchar|ڏاچِي m
Slovak: ťava f, dromedár m
Slovene: kamela f, velblod m
Spanish: camello m, dromedario m
Sumerian: t|sux|scXsux|𒄞𒆳𒋛𒄮𒊏𒀭|trAM.SI.ḪAR.RA.AN
Swahili: ngamia
Swedish: kamel c, dromedar c
trreq|Tamil
Telugu: ఒంటె (oMTe), లొట్టిపిట్ట (loTTipiTTa)
Turan: tüyə
Turkish: deve :tr:deve|^, hecin
Ukrainian: верблюд (verbljud) m
Upper Sorbian: kamel
Urdu: URchar|اونٹ|اُونٹ (ū.nt') g|Urdu
Uyghur: tɵgə
Vietnamese: lạc đà
Welsh: camel m
trreq|Yiddish

See also
Bactrian camel
cameleer
camel toe
dromedary
llama

Category:Mammals


Tocharian B

Noun
infl|txb|noun

  1. birth

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