canal
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.
Pronunciation
Audio (UK): (file) - IPA(key): /kəˈnæl/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Canada" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /kəˈnɛl/
- Rhymes: -æl
Noun
canal (plural canals)
- An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
- (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
- (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
Related terms
Descendants
- → Scottish Gaelic: canàl
Translations
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Verb
canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)
- 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.
- To travel along a canal by boat
- 1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211:
- Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.
Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
Noun
canal f (plural canales)
- canal (artificial waterway)
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
canal m (plural canals)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “canal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “canal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “canal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “canal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin canālis. Doublet of chenal.
Pronunciation
Noun
canal m (plural canaux)
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Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “canal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) + -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.
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Pronunciation
Noun
canal m (plural canais)
- (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
- 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:
- V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.
- 5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre
- V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.
- 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:
Etymology 2
Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.
Pronunciation
Noun
canal m (plural canais)
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- “canal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).
Noun
canal m (plural canaux)
Portuguese
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Mittellandkanal_near_minden_germany.jpg/220px-Mittellandkanal_near_minden_germany.jpg)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ka.ˈnaw/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "PT" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /kɐ.ˈnaɫ/
Noun
canal m (plural canais)
- ditch
- canal (artificial waterway)
- (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
- (television) television channel
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Derived terms
- (canal): canal-do-Panamá
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French canal, Latin canālis.
Noun
canal n (plural canale)
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).
Pronunciation
Noun
canal m (plural canales)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: kanal
Further reading
Venetian
Etymology
Noun
canal m (plural canałi)
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