strale

See also: stråle

English

Etymology

From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.

Noun

strale (plural strales)

1. Arrow.
2. (UK, dialect) The pupil of the eye.

Related terms

• streal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Laster, Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

strale

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of stralen

Anagrams

• laster

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu. First attested in 1266.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: strà‧le

Noun

strale m (plural strali)

1. (literary, poetic) arrow, dart, thunderbolt

   Synonyms: freccia, saetta

   strali di Cupido ― Cupid's darts

2. (figurative, by extension) strike, blow

   Synonyms: colpo, trafittura, dolore

   • 2000 [1472], Dante Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander, transl., La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy], Doubleday:

     Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta \ più caramente; e questo è quello strale \ che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.

     You shall leave behind all you most dearly love, \ and that shall be the arrow \ first loosed from exile's bow.

3. (figurative, by extension) accusation or criticism; shots fired

   Synonyms: accusa, critica

   • 2023 August 24, Alessandra Colarizi, “Il potere dei soldi di Pechino sul consenso del Sud globale: il “sogno sino-africano” di Xi al vertice dei Brics [The power of Beijing's money on the Global South: Xi's "Sino-African dream" at the BRICS summit]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano‎^[1]:

     Ma è soprattutto contro gli Stati Uniti che sono diretti gli strali cinesi.

     But China's accusations are mostly leveled against the United States.

4. racing dinghy for two people

Related terms

• faretra

Anagrams

• lastre, lestra, starle

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.

Noun

strâle f

1. arrow
2. stinger (of an insect)
3. point of a weapon
4. (rare) ray, beam

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• strâel

Derived terms

• strâlen

Descendants

• Dutch: straal
  • Afrikaans: straal
  • → Papiamentu: stral, straal
• Limburgish: straol

Further reading

• “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael