נדל

Hebrew

Etymology

Compare Classical Syriac ܢܕܠܐ (naddālā).

Noun

נָדָל • (nadál) m (plural indefinite נְדָלִים)

1. centipede (any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total)
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Chullin 67b:41:

     מרבה רגלים - זה נדל

     marbé ragláyim - ze nadál

     Whatever has many feet - that is the centipede

Further reading

• נדלים on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he