noun, masculine/ʃa.mo/plural: chameaux
camel
Related: chameau de Bactriane, chamelée, chamelet, chamelier, chamellerie, chamelon, sobre comme un chameau
Inherited from Middle French chameau, from Old French chamel, inherited from Vulgar Latin *camellus, a variant of Classical Latin camēlus (which would have yielded *chamoil).