different between hamlet vs camlet

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel, in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (whence English home).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæm.l?t/
• Homophone: Hamlet

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.

   Synonym: thorp

2. (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Translations

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

   Synonym: hudfarge

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hamlett

Pronunciation

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +? let (“colour”).

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Further reading

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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