different between grail vs graal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e??/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

Old French graal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. The Holy Grail.
2. Something eagerly sought or quested for.

Related terms

• Sangrail

Etymology 2

From Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
   • 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer

     antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

Noun

grail (uncountable)

1. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

Etymology 4

Compare Old French graite slender.

Noun

grail (plural grails)

1. One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Anagrams

• argil, glair

English

Noun

graal (plural graals)

1. Obsolete form of grail.
   • 1824, The New Monthly Magazine (page 486)

     A great admirer of antiquities and graals.

Anagrams

• argal

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

graal m (uncountable)

1. grail

French

Alternative forms

• Graal

Etymology

Medieval Latin grad?lis (“dish”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??al/

Noun

graal m (plural graux)

1. Holy Grail

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Old French graal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.?al/

Noun

graal m (plural graais)

1. grail

Derived terms

• Santo Graal

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin grad?lis (“dish”), of unknown origin.

Noun

graal m (oblique plural graaus or graax or graals, nominative singular graaus or graax or graals, nominative plural graal)

1. Holy Grail

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Graal
• gral
• Gral

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??a.?aw/

Noun

graal m (plural graais)

1. grail

Derived terms

• Santo Graal