neem

neem

English

A neem

Etymology

From Hindi नीम (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /niːm/

Noun

neem (plural neems)

1. Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield the insecticide azadirachtin.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic 2009, p. 108:

     He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.

Synonyms

• (Azadirachta indica): margosa, peelu

Derived terms

• neem cake

Alternative forms

• nim

Translations

Azadirachta indica

Acehnese: beuëng Assamese: নিম (nim) Bengali: নিম (nim) Burmese: တမာပင် (ta.mapang) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: neemtræ Finnish: neempuu (fi) Gujarati: લીમડો (gu) (līmaḍō) Hausa: nim Hindi: नीम (hi) (nīm) Kannada: ಬೇವು (kn) (bēvu) Khmer: ស្ដៅ (km) (sdav) Malayalam: ആര്യവേപ്പ് (ml) (āryavēppŭ)

Nepali: नीम (nīma) Oriya: ନିମ୍ବ (nimbô) Persian: چریش‎ Portuguese: amargoseira (pt) f, nim (pt) m Russian: ним (ru) m (nim), ни́им (níim), азадира́хта инди́йская f (azadiráxta indíjskaja) Sinhalese: කොහොඹ (kohom̆ba) Spanish: nim (es) m, margosa (es) f Swahili: mwarobaini Tamil: வேம்பு (ta) (vēmpu), வேப்பமரம் (ta) (vēppamaram) Telugu: వేప (te) (vēpa) Thai: สะเดา (th) (sàdao) Urdu: نیم‎ (nīm) Vietnamese: sầu đâu

Anagrams

• em- -en

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːm
• IPA^(key): /neːm/

Verb

neem

1. first-person singular present indicative of nemen
2. imperative of nemen

Anagrams

• meen, mene, neme

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neemi.

Noun

neem (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. (geography) cape, promontory, headland

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.