kale

From Northern Middle English cale, cal (Southern col), from Old English cāl, cāul, cāwel, from Latin caulis. Compare English cole, Icelandic kál (“cabbage”), German Kohl (“cabbage”). Doublet of caulis and gobi.

• IPA^(key): /keɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Hyphenation: kale

kale (usually uncountable, plural kales)

1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

   Synonym: borecole

2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
3. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
4. (dated, slang) Money.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert‎, HTML edition, 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.

• → Japanese: ケール (kēru)

• Akel, Alek, Lake, Leak, lake, leak

Borrowed from French cailler, from Latin coāgulō.

kale

1. (Uri) to congeal, curdle

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 63.

Probably from Proto-Basque *kaLe, ultimately from Latin callem, accusative singular of callis (“path”).

• IPA^(key): /kale/, [ka.le̞]

kale inan

1. street

• "kale" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “kale” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): [ˈkalɛ]

kale

1. masculine singular present transgressive of kalit

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kale

1. Inflected form of kaal

• lake

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑleˣ/, [ˈkɑle̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧le

kale

1. (botany) glume

• helve

• Kela, kela, leka

kale

1. (defective) should or ought to

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalɛ/

kale

1. locative singular of kał

• IPA^(key): [ˈkalɛ]

kale (Lontara spelling ᨀᨒᨙ)

1. body

from French caler

IPA^(key): /ká.le/

kale

1. to hold or block with a wedge

kale

1. house

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: ka‧le

kale m

1. locative/vocative singular of kał

kale

1. inflection of kalo:
   1. nominative plural
   2. oblique masculine singular/feminine singular/plural

kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)

1. third-person plural present of káliti

kale (Cyrillic spelling кале)

1. accusative plural of kal

From the fossilized class 12 form of the distal demonstrative -le.

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kale (n class, plural kale)

1. antiquity, the past

-a kale (invariable)

1. ancient, old

• ukale

• -pya

From Ottoman Turkish قلعه‎ (kal'a), from Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʿa, “fort, fortress”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈle/

kale (definite accusative kaleyi, plural kaleler)

1. fort, castle, fortress, stronghold
2. (chess) rook
3. (sports) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put the ball)
4. (politics) stronghold (of an ideology)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kale”, in Nişanyan Sözlük