different between nomad vs noma

English

Etymology

From Middle French nomade, from Latin nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??mæd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?no?mæd/

Noun

nomad (plural nomads)

1. (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
   • 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:

     The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...

   • 2013 August, Henry Petroski, "Geothermal Energy" in American Scientist, Vol. 101, No. 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
4. (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.

Synonyms

• (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

1. Synonym of nomadic.

References

• "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, mad on, mad-on, mando, monad

Romanian

Etymology

From French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

Noun

nomad m (plural nomazi)

1. nomad

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ma?d/
• Hyphenation: no?mad

Noun

nòm?d m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. nomad

Declension

English

Etymology

From New Latin noma from Latin nom? from Ancient Greek ???? (nom?, “spreading (of sores)”) from ???? (ném?, “feed, devour, spread (of sores)”)

Noun

noma (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A gangrenous disease leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek.

Translations

Anagrams

• Amon, Mano, Mona, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, moan, mona

Asturian

Verb

noma

1. inflection of nomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Verb

noma

1. inflection of nomare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• mano
• Oman

Japanese

Romanization

noma

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no.m?/

Noun

noma ? (Northumbria)

1. Alternative form of nama

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• nama

Noun

noma m

1. name

Portuguese

Noun

noma f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) noma (gangrenous disease of the mouth and cheeks)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

noma (n class, plural noma)

1. problem, trouble

Swazi

Conjunction

nóma

1. or
2. whether
3. even if

Vilamovian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

n?ma m (plural noma)

1. name

Derived terms

• nomastaog

Zulu

Etymology

From na- +? uma.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nó?ma/

Conjunction

nóma

1. although, even though, even if
2. or

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “noma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “noma (3.9)”