From en.wiktionary.org:
[cámel]
** English
{{multiple images |direction=vertical |image1=Camel seitlich trabend.jpg
|caption1=A Bactrian camel, _Camelus bactrianus_ |image2=Camels in Jordan
valley (4568207363).jpg |caption2=A caravan, a convoy of dromedary camels in
the [Jordan Rift Valley], in West Bank }}
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], through [en] and [en] ([fro], modern [fr]), from [en], from [en],
from a [en] source, ultimately from [en]; compare [ar], [he], [arc], [cop].
As a marine device, from [en]. As an ethnic slur, short for [en], [en], etc.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A beast of burden , much used in desert areas, of the genus [Camelus] .
2. * [part=1]
3. * [act=1]
4. * [en]
5. A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
6. [en] A vessel or tank , typically paired , use d to make an object more buoyant .
7. * 1961 April, H. Flint Ranney, "Whaling and Nantucket [ndash] The Decline: The Civil War, Petition to Congress, and the CAMELS ", _Historic Nantucket_ , Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 59:
8. *: Nantucket Island is probably the only place in the United States where CAMELS were put to work to solve the problem created by a sandbar. They were Marine CAMELS , and like their live namesake, they were of a rugged construction and were designed to do very heavy work. In the shape of two large wooden boxes, the CAMELS were flooded with sea water until they sank to a low level in the water; they were then arranged on each side of a heavily-loaded ship and drawn tightly together around the ship by means of heavy chains passing under the ship's hull. As the sea water was pumped out of the CAMELS , they rose up to a higher level, raising the ship between them, and when fully emptied the CAMELS and the ship were towed across the bar easily and safely because of the lesser draft. First used in Holland as early as 1688, the CAMELS were invented by one M. M. Bakker, who named them for their great strength. The Dutch used them to carry large ships over the Pampas , which was a passage between two sandbanks in the Zyder Zee , opposite the mouth of the River Y, and about six miles from the city of Amsterdam . The Russians adopted the idea and used CAMELS for carrying ships over the shoals at Neva ...
9. [en] A person of Middle Eastern origin.
10. [en] A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |a camel is a horse designed by a committee |a camel is a horse made
by a committee |anticamel |Arabian camel |Bactrian camel |cama |camelback
|camelbacked |camel case |camel clutch|whatever humps your camel |camel driver
|cameleer |cameleopard |camelestrian |camel flu |camelfucker |camel-hair brush
|camelhair,camel-hair |camelier |cameline |camelish |camelize |camel
jockey,camel-jockey |Camel League |camellike |camelman |camel meat |cameloid
|camelopard |camelpox |camel rider |camelry |camelshair,camel's hair |camel's
nose |camel spider |camelthorn |camel through the eye of a needle
|cameltoe,camel toe |dromedary camel |it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
|lower camel case |milch camel |milk camel |one-camel town |she-camel |sleep
camel |the straw that broke the camel's back |upper camel case |young camel }}
***** Related terms
{{col2|en |camelopard }}
***** Descendants
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
- [bor=1]
***** Translations
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- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Adyghe: [ady] , [ady]
- Afar: [aa]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Akan: [ak]
- Akkadian: [akk]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Avestan: [ae]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Baluchi: [bal] , [bal]
- Bambara: [bm]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bau Bidayuh: [sne]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Breton: [br]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Chakma: [ccp] , [ccp]
- Cham:
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv] , [dv] [male]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Eastern Arrernte: [aer]
- Erzya: [myv] , [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Gagauz: [gag]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gondi: [gon]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he] [young camel]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hinukh: [gin]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Iranun: [ill]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabiyé: [kbp]
- Kabyle: [kab]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Karakalpak: [kaa]
- Kashmiri: [ks] , [ks] , [ks]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lak: [lbe]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Laz: [lzz] , [lzz]
- Lezgi: [lez] , [lez]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maguindanao: [mdh]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Marwari: [mwr] , [mwr]
- Mari:
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Middle Persian: [pal]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mongolian:
- Moore: [mos]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Nandi: [niq]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Nǀuu: [ngh] , [ngh]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Persian: [peo] , [peo]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pali: [pi]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Pitjantjatjara: [pjt]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi:
- Rohingya: [rhg]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Rwanda-Rundi: [rw] , [rw]
- Saho: [ssy]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shona: [sn]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Silesian: [szl]
- Sindhi: [sd] , [sd]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sogdian: [sog]
- Somali: [so] , [so]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Sumerian: [sux]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tal: [tal]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th] [archaic]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] , [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tooro: [ttj] , [ttj]
- Tswana: [tn] , [tn]
- Tulu: [tcy]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Udi: [udi]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Volapük: [vo]
- Võro: [vro]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Western Panjabi: [pnb]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yakan: [yka]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zaghawa: [zag]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom] }}
**** Adjective
[-]
1. Of a light brown color like that of a camel.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1999 | title=New Woman | volume=29 | page=212
|passage=[...] 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
- [es]
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] [en] .
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
- [enm] [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], [fro], from [enm]. Some forms are from or influenced by [enm],
[fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
- [enm]
*** Noun
[pl=cameles]
1. [en] [mammal of the genus [Camelus]]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
**** References
- [entry=camē̆l]
[enm]
** Norman
*** Etymology
From [nrf].
*** Pronunciation
[nrf]
*** Noun
[nrf]
1. camel
** Old French
*** Etymology
See [fro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [fro] camel
[fro] Category:Old Northern French
** Tocharian B
*** Etymology
An action noun from [txb]. Compare [xto].
*** Noun
[n]
1. birth , rebirth
[txb]