different between guanaco vs camel

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??n??k??/

Noun

guanaco (plural guanacos or guanacoes)

1. A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) Auchenia huanaco

Hypernyms

• camelid

Hyponyms

• chulengo (a young guanaco)

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanaco's, diminutive guanacootje n)

1. guanaco

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?na.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: gua?nà?co

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanachi)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe)

   Hypernym: camelide

Further reading

• guanaco on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

References

• guanaco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• guanaco in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Portuguese

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco (Lama guanicoe, a ruminant of South America)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua wanaku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?nako/, [?wa?na.ko]

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco
2. (colloquial, Chile) water cannon used for riot control

Hyponyms

• chulengo (young guanaco)

Adjective

guanaco (feminine guanaca, masculine plural guanacos, feminine plural guanacas)

1. (colloquial, Central America) Salvadoran, pertaining to El Salvador

   Synonyms: salvadoreño, cuscatleco

Alternative forms

• huanaco

Further reading

• “guanaco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

French

Noun

guanaco m (plural guanacos)

1. guanaco

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