kale

English

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kale

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Northern Middle English cale, cal (Southern col), from Old English cāl, cāul, cāwel, from Latin caulis. Compare Icelandic kál (“cabbage”), German Kohl (“cabbage”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and gobi.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /keɪl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kæɪl/

  • Audio (AU)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Hyphenation: kale

Noun

kale (usually uncountable, plural kales)

1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

   Synonym: borecole

2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
3. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
4. (dated, slang) Money.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:

     I’ll bet he takes nine-tenths of his kale from women and children, and he’s an honored citizen.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: ケール (kēru)

Translations

Anagrams

• Akel, Alek, Lake, Leak, lake, leak

Alemannic German

Etymology

Borrowed from French cailler, from Latin coāgulō.

Verb

kale

1. (Uri) to congeal, curdle

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) , Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin callem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kale/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: ka‧le

Noun

kale inan

1. street

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• "kale" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
• “kale” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

kale

1. masculine singular present transgressive of kalit

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

kale

1. inflection of kaal:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Anagrams

• lake

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

kale

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kalëh (“husk, chaff”), probably borrowed and derived from Proto-Germanic *skaljō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑleˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧le

Noun

kale

1. (botany) glume

Declension

See also

• helve

Further reading

• “kale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• Kela, kela, leka

Ladino

Verb

kale

1. (defective) should or ought to

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

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Noun

kalè

1. instrumental singular of kalė̃ (“bitch”)

Noun

kãle

1. vocative singular of kãle (“bitch”)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalɛ/

Noun

kale

1. locative singular of kał

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

kale (Lontara spelling ᨀᨒᨙ)

1. body

Moore

Etymology

from French caler

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ká.le/

Verb

kale

1. to hold or block with a wedge

Morelos Nahuatl

Noun

kale

1. house

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: ka‧le

Noun

kale m

1. locative/vocative singular of kał

Romani

Adjective

kale

1. inflection of kalo:
   1. nominative plural
   2. oblique masculine singular/feminine singular/plural

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)

1. third-person plural present of káliti

Noun

kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)

1. accusative plural of kal

Swahili

Etymology

From the fossilized class 12 form of the distal demonstrative -le.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

kale (n class, plural kale)

1. antiquity, the past

Adjective

-a kale (invariable)

1. ancient, old

Synonyms

• ukale

Antonyms

• -pya

Swedish

Adjective

kale

1. definite natural masculine singular of kal

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قلعه (kal'a), قله (kale), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa, “fort, fortress”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈle/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

kale (definite accusative kaleyi, plural kaleler)

1. fort, castle, fortress, stronghold
2. (chess) rook
3. (sports) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put the ball)
4. (politics) stronghold (of an ideology)

Declension

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kale”, in Nişanyan Sözlük