different between canal vs casal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”), from can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??næl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /k??næl/, /k??n?l/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

Verb

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

Anagrams

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal f (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)
2. roof gutter

   Synonyms: canaló, ràfec

Derived terms

• canalitzar

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “canal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin can?lis. Doublet of chenal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. canal
2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

Derived terms

• canal nommé

Related terms

• chenal

Descendants

• ? Persian: ?????? (kânâl)
• ? Romanian: canal
• ? Turkish: kanal

See also

• chaîne

Further reading

• “canal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lança

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +? -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

Alternative forms

• canar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

     5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

   Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. canal
2. channel

References

• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “canal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “canal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin can?lis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?naw/, /k?.?naw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?na?/

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

1. ditch

   Synonyms: canaleta, vala, valeta

2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Derived terms

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

Related terms

• cale
• calha

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canal, Latin can?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/

Noun

canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

Declension

Further reading

• canal in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish canal, from Latin can?lis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?nal/, [ka?nal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

1. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
2. channel (wide strait)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Hyponyms

• (canal): canal de Panamá
• (channel): canal de Jamaica
• (channel): canal de la Mancha
• (channel): canal de Mozambique
• (channel): canal del Norte (“North Channel”)

Derived terms

• acanalar
• canaleta
• canalizar
• canalón
• canalón

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: kanal

Further reading

• “canal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin can?lis.

Noun

canal m (plural cana?i)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)

English

Etymology

From case +? -al

Adjective

casal (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or relating to case.

Anagrams

• AACSL, Calas, Scala, calas, scala

Catalan

Etymology

From from Late Latin cas?le (“country house, farm”), ultimately from Latin casa. Compare Portuguese casal, Spanish casal, Italian casale.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??zal/

• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?zal/

Rhymes: -al

Noun

casal m (plural casals)

1. A manor house.
2. The seat of an association, generally open to the public, of a cultural, political, recreational, etc. nature.
3. A noble house, such as the royal house of Austria or Aragon.
   • 2016 April 13, Òscar Adamuz, “Sobre el català i l'ús de les llengües a la Corona d'Aragó; una Franja d'història”, La Veu del País Valencià.

     Per tant, sembla clar que la llengua aragonesa (o la castellana) no era pas desconeguda entre els reis del casal d'Aragó.

     So it seems clear that the Aragonese language (or the Castilian) was not unknown to the kings of the House of Aragon.

Further reading

• “casal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Alternative forms

• casar

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese casal, from Late Latin cas?le (“country house, farm”), ultimately from Latin casa. Compare Portuguese casal, Spanish casal, Italian casale, Old French chesal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?sal/

Noun

casal m (plural casais)

1. homestead (a house together with surrounding land and buildings)

   Synonym: casarío

2. hamlet

   Synonyms: barrio, casarío, lugar, quinteiro, rueiro, poubea, vilar

Derived terms

References

• “casal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “casal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “casal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “casal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “casal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish casal (“mantle, cloak, chasuble”), from Latin casula (“little cottage, hooded cloak”), a diminutive of casa (“house”).

Noun

casal m (genitive singular casail, nominative plural casail)

1. (Christianity) chasuble
2. mantle

Declension

Mutation

References

• "casal" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “casal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “chasuble” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “casal” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• casau (Gascony)
• chasal (Auvergne)

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin cas?lis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or cas?le (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa.

Noun

casal m (plural casals)

1. (Languedoc) vegetable garden

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese casal, from Late Latin cas?lis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or cas?le (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa. Compare Italian casale, Old French chesal, Spanish casal.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k?.?za?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.?zaw/, [k?.?z?ä??]
• Hyphenation: ca?sal

Noun

casal m (plural casais)

1. couple, married couple

2. pair
3. village, hamlet
4. farmhouse

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:casal.

Derived terms

Related terms

• casa

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cas?lis (“domestic, belonging to the house”) or cas?le (“country house, farm”), ultimately from casa. Compare Italian casale, Old French chesal, Spanish casal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?sal/, [ka?sal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

casal m (plural casales)

1. country house
2. (Argentina, Uruguay) mating pair (of animals)
3. (poetic) hearth

Related terms

• casa