nomadism

English

Etymology

From nomad +‎ -ism.

Noun

nomadism (countable and uncountable, plural nomadisms)

1. The way of life of a nomad or nomads.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:

     Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.

Derived terms

• digital nomadism

 

Related terms

• nomadistic

Translations

way of life of a nomad

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: nomadisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游牧生活 (yóumù shēnghuó)

• Finnish: paimentolaisuus (fi)
• French: nomadisme (fr) m
• Georgian: მომთაბარეობა (momtabareoba)
• German: Nomadentum (de) n
• Icelandic: hjarðmennska f
• Italian: nomadismo (it) m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: nomadyzm (pl) m, koczownictwo n
• Russian: кочево́й о́браз жи́зни m (kočevój óbraz žízni), номади́зм (ru) m (nomadízm), коче́вничество (ru) n (kočévničestvo)
• Spanish: nomadismo m
• Swahili: uhamahamaji
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: göçebelik (tr)

Anagrams

• ammonids, monadism

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [nu.məˈðizm]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [no.məˈðizm]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [no.maˈðizm]

Noun

nomadism m (plural nomadisms)

1. nomadism

Further reading

• “nomadism” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nomadism” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nomadisme. By surface analysis, nomad +‎ -ism.

Noun

nomadism n (uncountable)

1. nomadism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nomadism	nomadismul
genitive-dative	nomadism	nomadismului
vocative	nomadismule