Kraalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /kɹɑːl/, /kɹɔːl/
• 韻: -ɑːl, -ɔːl
• Homophone: crawl

名詞

kraal (plural kraals)

1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
   • 1861, Charles John Andersson, “chapter VII”, in Lake Ngami, page 89:

     Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88:

     ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’

2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 6:

     A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.

3. An enclosure for livestock.
   • 2000 July 3, Jonathan Amos, “'Funny creature' toast of Botswana”, in BBC News Online:

     The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.

同意語

• (livestock enclosure): corral, pen

派生語

参考

• boma (East African)
• crawl (Jamaican English)
• Corral (Spanish)

動詞

kraal (third-person singular simple present kraals, present participle kraaling, simple past and past participle kraaled)

1. (transitive) To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.
   • 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XXVIII, page 343:

     […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.

同意語

• (to enclose livestock): corral

アナグラム

• kalar, Kalra, Larak, Karla