kale

See also kalë, kalė, and Kale

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English cawul, compare Icelandic kál (“cabbage”) and German Kohl (“cabbage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /keɪl/

Noun

kale (usually uncountable; plural kales)

1. cole
2. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
3. (slang) money
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert^[1], edition HTML, 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.

Synonyms

• borecole

Translations

edible plant: brassica oleracea acephala

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羽衣甘藍 (cmn), 羽衣甘蓝 (cmn) (yǔyī gānlán), 羽衣甘蓝 (cmn)

• Czech: kapusta (cs) f
• Danish: grønkål (da) c
• Dutch: boerenkool (nl) m and f
• Finnish: lehtikaali (fi)
• French: chou frisé (fr) m
• German: Grünkohl (de)
• Greek: λαχανίδα (el) (lachanída) f
• Hungarian: kel (hu)
• Icelandic: grænkál (is)
• Irish: cál (ga) m

• Italian: cavolo (it) m
• Kyrgyz: бакча капустасы (ky) (bakcha kapustasy), жем капуста (ky) (jem kapusta)
• Latin: crambe (la) f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: mous (Gronings)

• Macedonian: кељ (mk) (kelj) m, кел (mk) (kel) m
• Norwegian: grønnkål (no) c
• Polish: jarmuż (pl) m
• Portuguese: couve-de-folhas (pt) f
• Romanian: varză verde (ro) f
• Slovak: kel (sk)
• Spanish: col rizada (es) f
• Swedish: grönkål (sv) c

Anagrams

• lake, leak

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Basque

Noun

kale

1. street

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Dutch

Adjective

kale

1. the inflected form^FAQ of kaal

Anagrams

• lake

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

(index ka)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka‧le
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA: /ˈkɑle(ʔ)/

Noun

kale

1. (botany) A lemma.

Declension

Declension of kale (type hame) singular plural nominative kale kaleet genitive kaleen kaleiden kaleitten partitive kaletta kaleita accusative kale kaleen kaleet 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 instructive – kalein abessive kaleetta kaleitta comitative – kaleineen

Anagrams

• kela, leka

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Romani

Adjective

kale

1. Plural form of kalo.

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Swahili

Noun

kale

1. old times

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قلعة (qalʿa, “fort, fortress”).

Noun

kale

1. fort, castle
2. rook (chess)