نعام

Meaning

ostrich, ostriches

Concepts

ostrich

ostriches

Struthio camelus

Translations

autruche

avestruz

avestruz

Strauss

struzzi

Struthio camelus

struis

struisvogel

Struthio camelus

estruç

Struthio camelus

Strauß

Etymology

From the root ن ع م (n ʕ m). Else found in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic נַעָמׅיתָה (naʿāmīṯā), Jewish Palestinian Aramaic נעמיתה, Jewish Literary Aramaic נַעֳמָא (naʿămā), נַעֲמִיתָא (naʿămīṯā), נַעָמִיתָא (naʿāmīṯā), Christian Palestinian Aramaic ܢܥܡܝܬܐ, Classical Syriac ܢܰܥܳܡܳܐ (naʿāmā. naʿʿāmā), Mishnaic Hebrew נָעֳמׅית (nɔ̄ʾɔ̄mīṯ, “ostrich”). Hommel declared them to be borrowed from Arabic in spite of their early attestation due to the bird’s preferring semiarid conditions, but its distribution, now not even concluding Arabia, seems to have extended even into Aram, so the term may be of shared Central Semitic origin.