neem

• nim

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /niːm/

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• Rhymes: -iːm

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.

• (Azadirachta indica): margosa, peelu, chinaberry, white cedar, Persian lilac, syringa berry, bead tree, azedarach

• neem cake
• neem oil

• -neme, em- -en, mene

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• Rhymes: -eːm
• IPA^(key): /neːm/

neem

1. inflection of nemen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• meen, mene, neme

From Proto-Finnic *neemi.

neem (genitive neeme, partitive neeme)

1. (geography) cape, promontory, headland

• nööm (Föhr-Amrum)
• noome (Mooring)
• Naam (Sylt)

From Old Frisian nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

neem m (plural Naamer)

1. (Heligoland) name