kraal

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹɑːl/|/kɹɔːl/    美 /kɹɑːl/|/kɹɔːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
    — 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.
  2. In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
    — 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.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade. transitive
    — […] 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.

词形变化

kraals plural kraals present,singular,third-person kraaling participle,present kraaled participle,past kraaled past

词汇关系

衍生词
enkraal kraalhead turtle-kraal
相关词
boma crawl Corral

词源

词源 1
From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.
词源 2
From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.
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