Kamil is a name used in a number of languages.
Kamil () is a Polish, Czech, and Slovak given name, equivalent to the Italian Camillo, Spanish/Portuguese Camilo and French Camille. It is derived from Camillus,2 "Kamil (2)" at Behind the Name a Roman family name, which is sometimes claimed to mean "attendant at a religious service" in
Latin
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, but may actually be of unknown Etruscan origin. The female version is Kamila, equivalent to English '' Camilla'' or Camila.
Kamil is also a Turkish name, with the female version Kamile. These names were common during
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
and are not as common in Turkey today.
Kamil ( and ) is also an
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
name, sometimes used as an adjective, more usually transliterated as ''Kamil'' and ''Kameel '' which can be translated as "perfect" or "the Perfect One". It is also used in Somali,
Urdu
Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...
Pashto
Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...
, Kurdish, and other languages, with a meaning ranging between "perfect", "complete", and "full".
In Islamic theology, '' al-Insān al-Kāmil'' (, , ), is a term used as an honorific title to describe
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
. It is an Arabic phrase meaning "the person who has reached perfection".
Kamil Tvrdek
Kamil Tvrdek (born September 9, 1983) is a Czech former professional ice hockey winger (ice hockey), left winger.
Tvrdek played a total of 84 games in the Czech Extraliga for HC Karlovy Vary, from 2001 to 2008.Kamil Šaško (born 1985), Slovak politician
* Kamil Wilczek (born 1988), Polish footballer
* Kamil Yusuf Al-Bahtimi (1922–1969), Egyptian quranic reciter
* Kamil Zeman (1882–1952), Czech writer, journalist and translator of German prose
* Kamil Zvelebil (1927–2009), Czech linguist specializing in South Asia
* Wan Kamil Mohamed Shafian (1967–2002), Singaporean murderer
* Fathi Kameel (born 1955), Kuwaiti football player
Fictional characters
*Kamil, the main protagonist of the 13th century Arabic novel, '' The Treatise of Kamil'', also known as ''Theologus Autodidactus''.
*Kamil Dowanna is a human knight from
Produce
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Kamille Bidan
'' Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' is a Japanese science fiction anime television series that originally aired on Nagoya Broadcasting Network between March 2, 1985, and February 22, 1986. ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' featured many new characters and s ...
, also known as Kamil Bidan, the protagonist of the
anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
* Kameel-rivier B, a village in the low-veld region of KwaNdebele, in the Nkangala District Municipality of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa
* Kamil Crater, the meteorite impact crater in Egypt
* Kamil, Osmancık
Books
*'' The Complete History'', known in Arabic as the ''Tareekh Kamil'', written by Ali ibn al-Athir in 1231