kennel

See also: Kennel

English

A kennel, a shelter for a dog.

A kennel of dogs in the kennels of Château de Cheverny, France.

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) From Anglo-Norman kenil, from an (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  variant of Old French chenil (whence modern French chenil), from Vulgar Latin *canile, ultimately from Latin canis (“dog”), hence from Latin canēs, from Proto-Italic *kō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

Noun

kennel (plural kennels)

1. A house or shelter for a dog.

   – We want to look at the dog kennels.
   – That's the pet department, second floor.

2. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.

   The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.

   She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.

3. (UK, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 4, Scene 2:

     A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy

     A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.

4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

Synonyms

• (shelter for a dog): doghouse (US)
• (boarding facility for dogs): pound, shelter
• (collective noun for dogs): pack
• (hole of a fox): burrow, den

Derived terms

• ken (“house”)

Translations

shelter

• Arabic: بَيْت (ar) m (bayt), بَيْت اَلْكَلْب m (bayt al-kalb)
• Basque: txakurtegi (eu)
• Belarusian: бу́дка f (búdka)
• Bulgarian: кучешка колиба f (kučeška koliba)
• Burmese: ခွေးအိမ် (my) (hkwe:im)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狗屋 (zh) (gǒuwū)

• Dutch: kennel (nl) m, hondenhok (nl) n
• Esperanto: hundejo (eo), hundujo
• Finnish: koirankoppi (fi)
• French: chenil (fr) m, niche (fr) f
• Galician: canil m
• Georgian: საძაღლე (saʒaɣle), ქოხი (koxi), ქოხმახი (koxmaxi)
• German: (small cabin) Hundehütte (de) m; (cage) Zwinger (de) m, Hundezwinger m
• Greek: σκυλόσπιτο n (skylóspito)
• Hebrew: מלונה (he) f (melu'na)
• Hungarian: kutyaól (hu), kutyaház (hu)
• Icelandic: hundakofi (is) f
• Irish: cró madra m
• Italian: canile (it) m, cuccia (it) f
• Japanese: 犬小屋 (ja) (いぬごや, inugoya)
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• Korean: 개집 (ko) (gaejip)
• Macedonian: кучкарник m (kučkarnik)
• Malay:

  Jawi: رومه انجيڠ, رومه اسو

  Rumi: rumah anjing, rumah asu

• Mansi:
• Navajo: łééchąąʼí bighan
• Norman: niche f, câniche f
• Norwegian: hundehus n
• Polish: buda (pl) f
• Portuguese: canil (pt) m, casota f, casinha de cachorro f
• Russian: конура́ (ru) f (konurá), (соба́чья) бу́дка (ru) f (búdka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: псећа кућица f, пасја кућица f, штенара f

  Roman: pseća kućica f, pasja kućica f, štenara (sh) f

• Spanish: perrera f
• Ukrainian: бу́да (uk) f (búda), халабу́да (uk) f (xalabúda), кону́ра f (konúra)
• Urdu: تازی خانہ m
• Volapük: dogadom, dogalecek, dogadomil

facility

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: hundejo (eo)
• Finnish: kennel (fi), koiratarha
• French: chenil (fr) m
• German: (shelter for unwanted dogs) Hundeasyl n, Hundeheim n; (rearing facility) Hundezucht f, Zwinger (de) m, Hundezwinger m
• Greek: κυνοτροφείο n (kynotrofeío)
• Hungarian: kutyatenyészet, ebtenyészet
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• Macedonian: кучкарник m (kučkarnik)
• Malay: tempat perlindungan anjing
• Portuguese: canil (pt) m
• Russian: пса́рня (ru) f (psárnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: псетарник m

  Roman: psetarnik m

• Volapük: dogibridöp

pack of hounds

• Finnish: koiralauma
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

hole of an animal

• Bulgarian: дупка (bg) f (dupka)
• Finnish: kolo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

kennel (third-person singular simple present kennels, present participle kenneling or kennelling, simple past and past participle kenneled or kennelled)

1. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

   While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.

2. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4:

     Truth's a dog must to kennel;

   • 1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists‎^[1], Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130:

     The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs.

Derived terms

• unkennel

Etymology 2

A kennel or gutter.

From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”), from , from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Cognate with English channel, canal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

Noun

kennel (plural kennels)

1. (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street; an open sewer.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1:

     Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks;

   • 1716, Gay, John, Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, Book I:

     "Soon shall the Kennels swell with rapid Streams, / And rush in muddy Torrents to the Thames."

   • 1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian:

     A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) A puddle.

Translations

A gutter at the edge of a street

• Bulgarian: канавка (bg) f (kanavka)
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Synonyms

• (gutter): drain, gutter, trough

Hypernyms

• (gutter): conduit

Further reading

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English kennel, from Anglo-Norman kenil, from Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.nəl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ken‧nel

Noun

kennel m (plural kennels, diminutive kenneltje n)

1. kennel

Coordinate terms

• hondenhok

Derived terms

• hondenkennel

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Finnish

Etymology

< Vulgar Latin *canile via Germanic languages, ultimately from Latin canis

Noun

kennel

1. kennel (facility at which dogs are reared or boarded)

Declension

Inflection of kennel (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		kennel	kennelit
genitive		kennelin	kennelien
partitive		kenneliä	kennelejä
illative		kenneliin	kenneleihin
		singular	plural
nominative		kennel	kennelit
accusative	nom.	kennel	kennelit
	gen.	kennelin
genitive		kennelin	kennelien
partitive		kenneliä	kennelejä
inessive		kennelissä	kenneleissä
elative		kennelistä	kenneleistä
illative		kenneliin	kenneleihin
adessive		kennelillä	kenneleillä
ablative		kenneliltä	kenneleiltä
allative		kennelille	kenneleille
essive		kennelinä	kenneleinä
translative		kenneliksi	kenneleiksi
abessive		kennelittä	kenneleittä
instructive		—	kennelein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of kennel (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative kennelini kennelini accusative nom. kennelini kennelini gen. kennelini genitive kennelini kennelieni partitive kenneliäni kennelejäni inessive kennelissäni kenneleissäni elative kennelistäni kenneleistäni illative kenneliini kenneleihini adessive kennelilläni kenneleilläni ablative kenneliltäni kenneleiltäni allative kennelilleni kenneleilleni essive kennelinäni kenneleinäni translative kennelikseni kenneleikseni abessive kennelittäni kenneleittäni instructive — — comitative — kenneleineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative kennelisi kennelisi accusative nom. kennelisi kennelisi gen. kennelisi genitive kennelisi kenneliesi partitive kenneliäsi kennelejäsi inessive kennelissäsi kenneleissäsi elative kennelistäsi kenneleistäsi illative kenneliisi kenneleihisi adessive kennelilläsi kenneleilläsi ablative kenneliltäsi kenneleiltäsi allative kennelillesi kenneleillesi essive kennelinäsi kenneleinäsi translative kenneliksesi kenneleiksesi abessive kennelittäsi kenneleittäsi instructive — — comitative — kenneleinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative kennelimme kennelimme accusative nom. kennelimme kennelimme gen. kennelimme genitive kennelimme kenneliemme partitive kenneliämme kennelejämme inessive kennelissämme kenneleissämme elative kennelistämme kenneleistämme illative kenneliimme kenneleihimme adessive kennelillämme kenneleillämme ablative kenneliltämme kenneleiltämme allative kennelillemme kenneleillemme essive kennelinämme kenneleinämme translative kenneliksemme kenneleiksemme abessive kennelittämme kenneleittämme instructive — — comitative — kenneleinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative kennelinne kennelinne accusative nom. kennelinne kennelinne gen. kennelinne genitive kennelinne kennelienne partitive kenneliänne kennelejänne inessive kennelissänne kenneleissänne elative kennelistänne kenneleistänne illative kenneliinne kenneleihinne adessive kennelillänne kenneleillänne ablative kenneliltänne kenneleiltänne allative kennelillenne kenneleillenne essive kennelinänne kenneleinänne translative kenneliksenne kenneleiksenne abessive kennelittänne kenneleittänne instructive — — comitative — kenneleinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative kennelinsä kennelinsä accusative nom. kennelinsä kennelinsä gen. kennelinsä genitive kennelinsä kenneliensä partitive kenneliään kenneliänsä kennelejään kennelejänsä inessive kennelissään kennelissänsä kenneleissään kenneleissänsä elative kennelistään kennelistänsä kenneleistään kenneleistänsä illative kenneliinsä kenneleihinsä adessive kennelillään kennelillänsä kenneleillään kenneleillänsä ablative kenneliltään kenneliltänsä kenneleiltään kenneleiltänsä allative kennelilleen kennelillensä kenneleilleen kenneleillensä essive kennelinään kennelinänsä kenneleinään kenneleinänsä translative kennelikseen kenneliksensä kenneleikseen kenneleiksensä abessive kennelittään kennelittänsä kenneleittään kenneleittänsä instructive — — comitative — kenneleineen kenneleinensä

Synonyms

• koiratarha