orel

See also: Orel, Orël, and oreł

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech orel, from Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *arélis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorɛl]
• Hyphenation: or‧el

Noun

orel m anim (feminine orlice)

1. eagle (bird) [14th c.]
2. tail (side of a coin)

   Antonyms: hlava, panna

Declension

Declension of orel (hard masculine animate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	orel	orli, orlové
genitive	orla	orlů
dative	orlovi, orlu	orlům
accusative	orla	orly
vocative	orle	orli, orlové
locative	orlovi, orlu	orlech
instrumental	orlem	orly

Derived terms

adjectives

• orlí
• orlův

 

nouns

• orle
• orlice
• orlíče
• orlíček
• orlík

 

proverb

• neuč orla létat

 

Further reading

• orel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• orel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• orel in Internetová jazyková příručka

Anagrams

• orle
• role

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German orgel, örgel.

Noun

orel (genitive oreli, partitive orelit)

1. (music) organ

Declension

Declension of orel (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	orel	orelid
accusative	oreli	orelid
genitive	oreli	orelite
partitive	orelit	oreleid
illative	orelisse	orelitesse oreleisse
inessive	orelis	orelites oreleis
elative	orelist	orelitest oreleist
allative	orelile	orelitele oreleile
adessive	orelil	orelitel oreleil
ablative	orelilt	orelitelt oreleilt
translative	oreliks	oreliteks oreleiks
terminative	orelini	oreliteni
essive	orelina	orelitena
abessive	orelita	oreliteta
comitative	oreliga	orelitega

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Noun

orel m (Cyrillic spelling орел)

1. (Kajkavian) eagle (bird)

   Synonym: orao

Slovene

Orel

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *arélis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːrəʋ/

Noun

órəł m anim

1. eagle (bird)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	ôrel
gen. sing.	ôrla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôrel	ôrla	ôrli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ôrla	ôrlov	ôrlov
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôrlu	ôrloma	ôrlom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ôrla	ôrla	ôrle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôrlu	ôrlih	ôrlih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ôrlom	ôrloma	ôrli

Further reading

• “orel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran