different between kraul vs kraal

English

Noun

kraul (plural krauls)

1. Archaic form of kraal.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?a??l]
• Rhymes: -a??l

Verb

kraul

1. singular imperative of kraulen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of kraulen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English crawl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr?ul/
• Hyphenation: kra?ul

Noun

kràul m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (uncountable) crawl (swimming)

Declension

Westrobothnian

Noun

kraul m

1. crawler; wretch

Verb

kraul

1. to crawl

English

Etymology

From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

kraal (plural kraals)

1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
   • 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter VII, 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 1998, p. 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.’

2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 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.

3. An enclosure for livestock.
   • 2000, Jonathan Amos, "'Funny creature' toast of Botswana", BBC News Online, 3 July 2000:

     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

• (livestock enclosure): corral, pen

Translations

See also

• boma (East African)
• crawl (Jamaican English)
• Corral (Spanish)

Verb

kraal (third-person singular simple present kraals, present participle kraaling, simple past and past participle kraaled)

1. (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

Anagrams

• Kalra, Karla

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr??l/

Noun

kraal (plural krale)

1. A kraal, corral: enclosure for livestock

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kra?l/
• Hyphenation: kraal
• Rhymes: -a?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch crael, syncopic form of corael.

Noun

kraal f (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)

1. A bead (of a necklace or abacus)
2. Several similarly spheric objects.

Derived terms

• kraalboom
• kraalkruid
• kraaloog
• kralen
• kralenketting
• kralensnoer
• strijkkraal

Etymology 2

Noun

kraal n (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)

1. Obsolete form of koraal.

Derived terms

• zeekraal

Etymology 3

From Portuguese curral.

Noun

kraal f (plural kralen, diminutive kraaltje n)

1. A kraal, corral (enclosure for livestock)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kraal
• ? Sranan Tongo: krara

Anagrams

• klaar