Algerian writer
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Algerian writer
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Kamel Daoud is Algerian writer.
The name Kamel means "gmh:kemel> kemel, kemmel, kembel, borrowed during the Crusades from κάμηλος, probably in part also from جَمَل, which best explains the e-vocalism (as Arabic a is [æ] or even [ɛ] in this word). The modern form with final stress is a 16th-century learned alteration after camēlus, itself from -, from a - language. It was accordingly mostly spelt Kameel until the early 20th century (a spelling then abolished after words like Klientel, parallel). An older term for the animal was olbenta.". It is of Arabic origin.
Name Meaning
gmh:kemel> kemel, kemmel, kembel, borrowed during the Crusades from κάμηλος, probably in part also from جَمَل, which best explains the e-vocalism (as Arabic a is [æ] or even [ɛ] in this word). The modern form with final stress is a 16th-century learned alteration after camēlus, itself from -, from a - language. It was accordingly mostly spelt Kameel until the early 20th century (a spelling then abolished after words like Klientel, parallel). An older term for the animal was olbenta.
The name Kamel is of Arabic origin, meaning "gmh:kemel> kemel, kemmel, kembel, borrowed during the Crusades from κάμηλος, probably in part also from جَمَل, which best explains the e-vocalism (as Arabic a is [æ] or even [ɛ] in this word). The modern form with final stress is a 16th-century learned alteration after camēlus, itself from -, from a - language. It was accordingly mostly spelt Kameel until the early 20th century (a spelling then abolished after words like Klientel, parallel). An older term for the animal was olbenta.". It is traditionally a male name.
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