different between corral vs worral

English

Etymology

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???æl/, /k?????l/
• Rhymes: -æl
• Hyphenation: cor?ral

Noun

corral (plural corrals)

1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.

3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.

Synonyms

• (livestock enclosure): pen, stockade

Translations

See also

• crawl (Jamaican English)
• kraal (South African English)

Verb

corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle corralling or (US) corraling, simple past and past participle corralled or (US) corraled)

1. To capture or round up.
2. To place inside of a corral.

3. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.

Derived terms

• corraler, corraller

Translations

Anagrams

• Carrol, carrol

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *currale (“place for keeping a chariot”), from currus (“chariot”). Compare Portuguese curral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?ral/, [ko?ral]

Noun

corral m (plural corrales)

1. (cattle) corral, enclosure

   Synonym: cercado

Derived terms

• acorralar
• ave de corral
• Corralejo
• corralito
• tecorral

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: koral
• ? English: corral
• ? Mecayapan Nahuatl: cóla?l
• ? San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cora
• ? Polish: corral
• ? Polish: korral
• ? Tagalog: koral

Further reading

• “corral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• corral on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Anagrams

• clorar

English

Alternative forms

• worrel
• waral

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (waral, “monitor lizard”).

Noun

worral (plural worrals)

1. (obsolete) a monitor lizard of Egypt, including both the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and desert monitor (Varanus griseus).
   • 1744, The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq.

     The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length, usually of a bright reddish Colour […]