Two men were killed by a rampaging camel that had escaped from a petting zoo in Tennessee…
-New York Post, March 12, 2022
Petting Zoo. Janaynat al-Hayawānāt li-Mulāmasa is my best guess for how to say it in Arabic, literally Garden of Animals for Petting, with Petting from the triliteral root L-M-S as a Form III verbal noun, which Wehr gives in a seconday meaning as Sexual Intercourse. Lane too translates in that sense, giving the cognate word Lāmis as Adulterer, one allowing herself to be Petted by men other than her husband. Both dictionaries vindicate KhairAllah’s incredulity that camels would be in zoos alongside lions and bears. Camels, he thought, should be kept in the Bādiyya, Desert (and cognate word of Bedouin), not a bordello.