kale

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

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /keɪl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kæɪl/

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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^[1], 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.

Borrowed from Latin callem.

• IPA^(key): /kale/ [ka.le]

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• Rhymes: -ale, -e
• Hyphenation: ka‧le

kale inan

1. street

• “kale”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “kale”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): [ˈkalɛ]

kale

1. masculine singular present transgressive of kalit

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kale

1. inflection of kaal:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• lake

From Proto-Finnic *kalëh (“husk, chaff”), probably borrowed and derived from Proto-Germanic *skaljō.

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

kale

1. (botany) glume

• helve

• “kale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Kela, kela, leka

Perhaps from Catalan cal, from the verb caldre; perhaps influenced by Portuguese cabe, from the verb caber.

kale

1. (defective) should or ought to

kalè

1. instrumental singular of kalė̃ (“bitch”)

kãle

1. vocative singular of kãle (“bitch”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalɛ/

kale

1. locative singular of kał

• IPA^(key): [ˈkalɛ]

kale (Lontara spelling ᨀᨒᨙ)

1. body

kale

1. alternative form of col

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 class IX (plural kale class X)

1. antiquity, the past

-a kale (invariable)

1. ancient, old

• ukale

• -pya

kale

1. definite natural masculine singular of kal

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈle/

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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)

Chess pieces in Turkish · satranç taşları (see also: satranç) (layout · text)
şah	vezir	kale	fil	at	piyon

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