kral

kral (plural krals)

1. Archaic form of kraal.

From Ottoman Turkish قرال‎ (kral), from a South Slavic language. Ultimately from Old High German Karl, name of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.

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kral

1. king

• krallıq

Borrowed from Czech král, from Proto-Slavic *korľь. Displaced native form krol.

• IPA^(key): /kral/

kral m

1. king

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “kral”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “kral”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

From Ottoman Turkish قرال‎ (kral), from a South Slavic language; compare Proto-Slavic *korľь (“king”) (Serbo-Croatian krȃlj/кра̑љ, Bulgarian крал (kral), Slovene králj). Ultimately from Old High German Karl, name of the Frankish ruler Charlemagne.

• IPA^(key): [k(ɯ)ɾɑɫ]
• Generally native Turkish words don't start with consonant clusters so most speakers add a vowel in between the first two letters to make it easier to pronounce

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kral (definite accusative kralı, plural krallar)

1. king (head of a country)

• → Northern Kurdish: kral, qral

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *korľь.

• Hyphenation: kral

kral m pers (feminine kralowna, diminutive kralik, related adjective kralowy or kralowski)

1. king

kral m anim (diminutive kralik)

1. (card games, chess) king

• “kral” in Soblex

From German Kralle.

kral (nominative plural krals)

1. claw

• kluv