kale
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /keɪl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæɪl/
Audio (AU) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪl
- Hyphenation: kale
Noun edit
kale (usually uncountable, plural kales)
- An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
- Synonym: borecole
- Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
- (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
- (dated, slang) Money.
- 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert[1], 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 edit
Descendants edit
- → Japanese: ケール (kēru)
Translations edit
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Anagrams edit
Alemannic German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cailler, from Latin coāgulō.
Verb edit
kale
References edit
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.
Basque edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kale inan
Declension edit
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | kale | kalea | kaleak |
ergative | kalek | kaleak | kaleek |
dative | kaleri | kaleari | kaleei |
genitive | kaleren | kalearen | kaleen |
comitative | kalerekin | kalearekin | kaleekin |
causative | kalerengatik | kalearengatik | kaleengatik |
benefactive | kalerentzat | kalearentzat | kaleentzat |
instrumental | kalez | kaleaz | kaleez |
inessive | kaletan | kalean | kaleetan |
locative | kaletako | kaleko | kaleetako |
allative | kaletara | kalera | kaleetara |
terminative | kaletaraino | kaleraino | kaleetaraino |
directive | kaletarantz | kalerantz | kaleetarantz |
destinative | kaletarako | kalerako | kaleetarako |
ablative | kaletatik | kaletik | kaleetatik |
partitive | kalerik | — | — |
prolative | kaletzat | — | — |
Derived terms edit
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Czech edit
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kale
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
kale
- inflection of kaal:
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *kalëh (“husk, chaff”), probably borrowed and derived from Proto-Germanic *skaljō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kale
Declension edit
Inflection of kale (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kale | kaleet | ||
genitive | kaleen | kaleiden kaleitten | ||
partitive | kaletta | kaleita | ||
illative | kaleeseen | kaleisiin kaleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kale | kaleet | ||
accusative | nom. | kale | kaleet | |
gen. | kaleen | |||
genitive | kaleen | kaleiden kaleitten | ||
partitive | kaletta | kaleita | ||
inessive | kaleessa | kaleissa | ||
elative | kaleesta | kaleista | ||
illative | kaleeseen | kaleisiin kaleihin | ||
adessive | kaleella | kaleilla | ||
ablative | kaleelta | kaleilta | ||
allative | kaleelle | kaleille | ||
essive | kaleena | kaleina | ||
translative | kaleeksi | kaleiksi | ||
abessive | kaleetta | kaleitta | ||
instructive | — | kalein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “kale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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 edit
Ladino edit
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kale
Lithuanian edit
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kalè
- instrumental singular of kalė̃ (“bitch”)
Noun edit
kãle
Lower Sorbian edit
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kale
Makasar edit
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kale (Lontara spelling ᨀᨒᨙ)
Moore edit
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kale
- to hold or block with a wedge
Morelos Nahuatl edit
Noun edit
kale
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kale m
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kale
Serbo-Croatian edit
Verb edit
kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)
Noun edit
kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)
- accusative plural of kal
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From the fossilized class 12 form of the distal demonstrative -le.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
kale (n class, plural kale)
Adjective edit
-a kale (invariable)
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Swedish edit
Adjective edit
kale
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish قلعه (kal'a), قله (kale), from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa, “fort, fortress”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kale (definite accusative kaleyi, plural kaleler)
- fort, castle, fortress, stronghold
- (chess) rook
- (sports) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put the ball)
- (politics) stronghold (of an ideology)
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Nominative | kale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kaleyi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | kale | kaleler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kaleyi | kaleleri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kaleye | kalelere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | kalede | kalelerde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | kaleden | kalelerden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | kalenin | kalelerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kale”, in Nişanyan Sözlük