Noun: kamel
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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enpuklet kamel — dromedary
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svelge/sluke en kamel or svelge/sluke kameler (to accept something contrary to one's principles or wishes in order to reach a compromise)
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avsile myggen, men sluke kamelen or sile av myggen, men sluke kamelen (to be excessively strict about minor matters while overlooking more important ones)
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kameler i majestetisk marsj over gul ørkensand (camels in majestic procession across yellow desert sand) [1993, Øystein Lønn, Thranes metode og andre noveller:]
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siklende som en kamel (drooling like a camel) [1999, Elsbeth Wessel, Wien, page 105:]
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Kameler og lastebiler. (Camels and trucks.) [2003, Ari Behn, Bakgård, page 239:]
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hvilken fryktinngytende skapning kamelen kan være (what a fearsome creature the camel can be) [2022, Tove Nilsen, Nordens elefanter og andre bekjente, pages 246–247:]
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topuklet kamel (Bactrian camel)
Nouns inflected like kamel
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Norse kamell (“camel”), borrowed from Middle Low German kamel (“camel”), from Latin camēlus (“camel”), from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”), from an unidentified Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal- (“camel”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk kamel, Danish kamel, Swedish kamel, German Kamel and English camel. See: Latin Nouns '
camēlus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάμηλος', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
kamel', Danish Nouns '
kamel', Swedish Nouns '
kamel', German Nouns '
Kamel', English Nouns '
camel'.
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