camelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæməl/
• 韻: -æməl
• ハイフネーション: ca‧mel

語源 1

From Middle English camel, through 古期英語 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).

名詞

camel (複数形 camels)

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

   Synonym: (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) oont

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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.

等位語

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

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

参考

形容詞

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.

派生した語

• → Spanish: cámel

語源 2

From Afrikaans kameel.

名詞

camel (複数形 camels)

2. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe

Further reading

• camel on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Malec, calme, macle