Talk:ج م ل

The article lists three separate meanings of the root g-m-l. But are these really homonyms? I always understood that camel was supposed to mean 'graceful beast', so that the Arabic word gamal derives from the root g-m-l 'related to beauty'. Caesarion (talk) 15:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

It says nothing about homonyms. This page is about the triliteral ج م ل (j-m-l) and the meanings. ج م ل is not a word, it is simply three letters that are used to make a variety of words. You have to go to the individual words that are derived from these three radicals, such as جمل, to see the pronunciations and meanings. Also, this theory that the word for camel is derived from the word for beauty is what’s called folk etymology. The word for camel is not related to the word for beauty, and it does not mean "graceful beast". —Stephen ^(Talk) 11:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)