zemel
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch semele, ultimately from Latin simila (“wheat flour”). Cognate with regional German Semmel (“bread roll”). The noun in the sense of whiner stems from the verb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzeː.məl/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ze‧mel
- Rhymes: -eːməl
Noun
zemel f (plural zemelen)
- bran
Noun
zemel m (plural zemels, diminutive zemeltje n)
- whiner, blatherer
- Synonym: zemelaar
Verb
zemel
- first-person singular present indicative of zemelen
- imperative of zemelen