δρομάς, Running, Dromedary, an ellipsis of δρομάς κάμηλος, Running Camel, from δρόμος, Race, Running, Race Course, Track, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem-, To Run
-Oxford Dictionaries
What is with these Dromedaries all running and racing on a Dromos, a course or a track? To be sure, we rode them, Riding not Pack Camels to be technical, mostly of the white Kabbāshi breed, but they mostly walked over a trackless unmarked route, unless you call their occasional skeleton, dropped from exhaustion and cross-gorged by a drover’s dagger, a milestone on the Darb.