neem

English

A neem

Neem branches with its flowers.

Alternative forms

• nim

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /niːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

neem (plural neems)

1. Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
   • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 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, chinaberry, white cedar, Persian lilac, syringa berry, bead tree, azedarach

Derived terms

• neem cake
• neem oil

Translations

Azadirachta indica

• Acehnese: beuëng
• Afan Oromo: daboobessa
• Arabic: أَزَادَرْخَت (ar) m (ʔazādarḵat) (see it for variations), شِرِيش m (širīš)
• Assamese: নিম (nim)
• Bengali: নিম (bn) (nim)
• Burmese: တမာပင် (ta.mapang), တမာ (my) (ta.ma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度苦楝 (yìndùkǔliàn)

• Czech: azadirachta indická
• Danish: neemtræ
• Farefare: nimi
• Finnish: neempuu (fi)
• Gujarati: લીમડો (gu) (līmḍo)
• Hausa: nim, maina, darbejiya
• Hindi: नीम (hi) (nīm)
• Jarai: tăng liăng
• Kannada: ಬೇವು (kn) (bēvu)
• Khmer: ស្ដៅ (km) (sdav)
• Malay: mambu (ms)
• Malayalam: ആര്യവേപ്പ് (ml) (āryavēppŭ)
• Nepali: नीम (nīm)
• Odia: ନିମ୍ବ (nimba)
• Persian: چریش
• Portuguese: amargoseira (pt) f, nim (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਨਿੰਮ (pa) f (nimm)

  Shahmukhi: نِمّ (pa) f (nimm)

• Russian: ним (ru) m (nim), ни́им (níim), азадира́хта инди́йская f (azadiráxta indíjskaja)
• Sinhalese: කොහොඹ (kohoᵐba)
• 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: نِیم (nīm)
• Vietnamese: sầu đâu

Anagrams

• -neme, em- -en, mene

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːm
• IPA^(key): /neːm/

Verb

neem

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

Anagrams

• meen, mene, neme

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.