different between camel vs camlet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæm?l/
• Rhymes: -æm?l
• Hyphenation: ca?mel

Etymology 1

From Middle English camel, through Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin cam?lus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kám?los), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic ?????? (jamal) and Hebrew ???? (gamál).

Noun

camel (plural camels)

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

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

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

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.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Coeur d'Alene: keemel

Translations

See also

Adjective

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.

Etymology 2

From Afrikaans kameel

Noun

camel (plural camels)

2. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of giraffe

Further reading

• camel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Malec, calme, macle

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 cam?lus. Some forms are from or influenced by Old French chamel, chamoil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam?l/, /kam???l/, /kam??i?l/
• (From Central Old French) IPA^(key): /?t?am?l/, /t?am???l/, /t?am??i?l/

Noun

camel (plural cameles)

1. camel (mammal of the genus Camelus)

Descendants

• English: camel
• Scots: camel

References

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

Old French

Etymology

See chamel.

Noun

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

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

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Tocharian A cmol.

Noun

camel ?

1. birth

English

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?amla, “velvet”), via Old French chamelot to Middle English chamelet.

Noun

camlet (countable and uncountable, plural camlets)

1. A fine fabric made from wool (originally camel, but later goat) and silk.
2. A garment made from such a fabric.
   • July 1, 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys

     This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter 4

     With this announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the Blue Dragon, and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself, who was wrapped in an old blue camlet cloak with a lining of faded scarlet.

   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Refugees, Chapter 3

     She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mactel