strale

See also: stråle

English

Etymology

From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.

Noun

strale (plural strales)

  1. Arrow.
  2. (UK, dialect) The pupil of the eye.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Dutch

Pronunciation
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Verb

strale

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stralen

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstra.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: strà‧le

Noun

strale m (plural strali)

  1. (literary) arrow, thunderbolt
  2. a type of racing dinghy for two people

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.

Noun

strâle f

  1. arrow
  2. stinger (of an insect)
  3. point of a weapon
  4. (rare) ray, beam

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms
  • strâel

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Dutch: straal
    • Afrikaans: straal
    • → Papiamentu: stral, straal
  • Limburgish: straol

Further reading
  • “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael
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