canal

English

A canal.

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

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• IPA: /kəˈnæl/

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
2. A tubular channel within the body.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Translations

artificial waterway

Arabic: قَنَاة (ar) (qanā) f. Armenian: ջրանցք (ǰəranc'k') Bosnian: kanal (bs) m. Breton: kanol (br) Bulgarian: канал (bg) m. Catalan: canal (ca) m. Chinese: Cantonese: 運河 Mandarin: 运河 (cmn) (yùnhé) Min Nan: ūn-hô (nan) Czech: kanál (cs) m., průplav (cs) m. Danish: kanal (da) Dutch: kanaal (nl) n., vaart (nl) f., gracht (nl) f. (in a city, more commonly used in Holland) Esperanto: kanalo (eo) Estonian: kanal (et) Finnish: kanava (fi) French: canal (fr) m. German: Kanal (de) m. Hebrew: תעלה (he) (te'ala) f. Hungarian: csatorna (hu) Indonesian: kanal (id) Italian: canale (it) m. Japanese: 運河 (ja) (うんが, unga)

Korean: 운하 (ko) (unha) Latin: fossa (la) f. Malay: terusan (ms) Norwegian: kanal (no) Persian: کانال (fa) (kānāl), آبراه (fa) (ābrāh) Polish: kanał (pl) m. Portuguese: canal (pt) m. Romanian: canal (ro) m. Russian: канал (ru) (kanál) m. Scottish Gaelic: canàl (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: канал (sr) m. Roman: kanal m. Slovak: kanál (sk) m., prieplav (sk) Spanish: canal (es) m. Swedish: kanal (sv) c. Telugu: కాలువ (te) Thai: คลอง (th) (klong) Turkish: ark (tr) Ukrainian: канал (uk) m. Uyghur: قانلا Vietnamese: kênh đào (vi) Welsh: camlas (cy)

a tubular channel within the body

Bulgarian: канал (bg) m. Czech: kanálek (cs) m. French: canal (fr) m.

Polish: przewód (pl) m. Slovak: kanálok (sk) m. Spanish: canal (es) m. and f.

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Afrikaans: kanaal Dutch Low Saxon: knoal Galician: Canle (gl), canle (gl) Pennsylvania German: kanaal Hindi: नहर (hi) Icelandic: skurður (is) Interlingua: canal Isthmus Zapotec: biasa Japanese: 用水路 (ようすいろ, yōsuiro)

Kurdish: cok (ku) Macedonian: канал (mk) (kanál) m. Norwegian Nynorsk: kanal (nn) Samogitian: kanals Swahili: njia ya maji, mfereji (sw) Tamil: கால்வாய் (ta) Telugu: కాలువ (kaaluva) (1, 2) Turkish: kanal

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^[1], 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.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m. (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• audio (un canal)

  (file)

• IPA: /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m. (plural canaux)

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

Related terms

• chenal

See also

• chaîne

Anagrams

• lança

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

canal

Etymology

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kanna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA: /ka.ˈnaw/

Noun

canal m. (plural canais)

1. ditch
2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Synonyms

• (ditch) canaleta, vala, valeta

Derived terms

• (canal) canal-do-Panamá

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Romanian

Etymology

From French canal, from Latin canalis.

Noun

canal n. (plural canale)

1. channel
2. (plural canaluri) canal

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m. (plural canales)

1. canal (waterway)
2. channel (of television)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Derived terms

• Canal de Panamá
• canalizar

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Venetian

Noun

canal m. (plural canałi)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)