kraal
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See also: Kraal
English
Etymology
From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.
Pronunciation
Noun
kraal (plural kraals)
- In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
- 1861, Charles John Andersson, “chapter VII”, in Lake Ngami, page 89:
- Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.
- 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88:
- ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’
- In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 6:
- A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.
- An enclosure for livestock.
- 2000 July 3, Jonathan Amos, “'Funny creature' toast of Botswana”, in BBC News Online:
- The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.
Synonyms
Translations
rural African village of huts surrounded by a stockade
See also
Verb
kraal (third-person singular simple present kraals, present participle kraaling, simple past and past participle kraaled)
- (transitive) To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.
- 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XXVIII, page 343:
- […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.
Synonyms
- (to enclose livestock): corral
Translations
to enclose livestock within a kraal or stockade
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral.
Pronunciation
Noun
kraal (plural krale)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch crael, syncopic form of corael. See koraal, from the same ultimate source.
Noun
kraal f (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)
Derived terms
- kraalboom
- kraalkruid
- kraaloog
- kralen
- kralenketting
- kralensnoer
- strijkkraal
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
kraal n (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Portuguese curral.
Noun
kraal f (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kraal
Anagrams
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