canal

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See also: Canal and canàl

English

A canal.
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • IPA(key): /kəˈnæl/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /kəˈnæl/, /kəˈnɛl/
  • 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; see Martian canals

Usage notes

  • Occasionally applied to similar natural waterways, such as Hood Canal.

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Descendants

  • → Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

a tubular channel within the body
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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
    • 1968, Louisiana State University, Proceedings‎, page 165:
      In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
  2. To travel along a canal by boat
    • 1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211:
      Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin canālis.

Noun

canal f (plural canales)

  1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

  1. canal (artificial passage for water)
  2. channel
  3. (anatomy) channel, tract
    canal digestiu ― digestive tract

Noun

canal f (plural canals)

  1. roof gutter
    Synonyms: canaló, ràfec
  2. (architecture) groove, fluting (of a column, etc.)
    Synonyms: estria, solc
  3. crease, fold
  4. (bookbinding) fore edge
  5. carcass

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin canālis. Doublet of chenal.

Pronunciation

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

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

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Pronunciation

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

  1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
    Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira
    • 1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, 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

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

Pronunciation

Noun

canal m (plural canais)

  1. canal
  2. channel

References

  • “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “canal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “canar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “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 canālis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

  1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

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canal

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ca‧nal

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canal, Latin canālis.

Pronunciation

Noun

canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

  1. (plural canaluri) canal
  2. channel

Declension

Declension of canal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) canal canalul (niște) canale canalele
genitive/dative (unui) canal canalului (unor) canale canalelor
vocative canalule canalelor
Declension of canal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) canal canalul (niște) canaluri canalurile
genitive/dative (unui) canal canalului (unor) canaluri canalurilor
vocative canalule canalurilor

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈnal/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ca‧nal

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

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

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin canālis.

Noun

canal m (plural canałi)

  1. canal
  2. channel (all senses)
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