Nimrod

See also: Nimród and nimrod

English

A Nimrod (biplane fighter), 1936

A decommissioned Nimrod (patrol aircraft) and a pony

Etymology

From Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).

Proper noun

Nimrod

1. (biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
   • 1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas‎^[1], page 80:

     Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.

   • 2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City‎^[2], page 1:

     In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'. […] In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.

   • 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page:

     The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.

2. A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
3. A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.

Derived terms

• Nimrodian
• Nimrodic

Translations

biblical king and hunter

• Arabic: نُمْرُود m (numrūd)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܢܡܪܘܕ (Nemrod)

• Bengali: নমরূদ (nômrūd)
• French: Nemrod (fr)
• Greek: Νεβρώθ m (Nevróth)
• Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד m (nimród)
• Hungarian: Nimród (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Nemrûd (ku) m

• Russian: Нимрод (ru) m (Nimrod), Немврод m (Nemvrod)
• Spanish: Nemrod (es)
• Urdu: نَمْرُود m (namrūd)

Noun

Nimrod (plural Nimrods)

1. Any great hunter.
   • 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918, page 116:

     Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.

2. Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”)

Anagrams

• D minor

Italian

Alternative forms

• Nembrod, Nembrot, Nembrotte, Nembrotto

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nimˈrɔd/
• Rhymes: -ɔd
• Hyphenation: Nim‧ròd

Proper noun

Nimrod m

1. (biblical) Nimrod