kul

kul

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kulere.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kulere terms

From Proto-Albanian * ̊kull-, from Proto-Indo-European *kwel- (“to revolve, twist”). Occurs almost exclusively in prefixed form with për-. Probably related to ul.

kul (aorist (për)kula, participle (për)kulur)

1. to bend, crouch, bow

• përkul

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [kyːl]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [kiːl]

From Old Cornish cul, from Proto-Brythonic *kʉl, from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”) (compare Old Irish coíl, Welsh cul).

kul

1. narrow

   Synonym: ynn

   Antonyms: efan, ledan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kul

1. hard mutation of gul (“to do, make”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkul]

kul

1. masculine singular past active participle of kout

From Old Norse kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, cognate with Swedish kol, German Kohle, Dutch kool, English coal.

• IPA^(key): /kol/, [ˈkʰɔl]

kul n (singular definite kullet, plural indefinite kul)

1. coal

• “kul” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /kuːˀl/, [ˈkʰuˀl]

kul

1. imperative of kule

• IPA^(key): /kʏl/

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• Rhymes: -ʏl

From Middle Dutch cul, kul (“testicle”), from Old French coille, from Latin cōleus (“testicle”).

kul f (plural kullen, diminutive kulletje n)

1. (obsolete) testicle
2. (dialectal) marble (small ball used in various games)
3. (obsolete) loser, wuss, wimp

Clipping of flauwekul, a univerbation of the adjective flauw (“insipid, tasteless”) and the noun kul (“testicle”).

kul m (uncountable)

1. nonsense, rubbish

• IPA^(key): [kʰʏːl]
• Rhymes: -ʏːl

kul n (genitive singular kuls, no plural)

1. (light) breeze

   Synonym: gola

From Proto-Turkic *kul.

kul

1. slave

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “kul”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Related to the noun kule

• IPA^(key): /kʉːl/
• Rhymes: -ʉːl

kul m (definite singular kulen, indefinite plural kuler, definite plural kulene)

1. bump, swelling (in the head or on a level surface)

From Swedish kul, with meaning influenced by English cool.

• kuul

• IPA^(key): /kʉːl/
• Rhymes: -ʉːl

kul (masculine and feminine kul, neuter kult, definite singular and plural kule, comparative kulere, indefinite superlative kulest, definite superlative kuleste)

1. cool (awesome)

• IPA^(key): /kʉːl/
• Rhymes: -ʉːl

kul

1. imperative of kule

• “kul” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [2]

Related to the noun kule

kul m (definite singular kulen, indefinite plural kular, definite plural kulane)

1. bump, swelling (in the head or on a level surface)

From Swedish kul, with meaning influenced by English cool.

kul (neuter kult, definite singular and plural kule, comparative kulare, indefinite superlative kulast, definite superlative kulaste)

1. cool (awesome)

kul

1. imperative of kule

• “kul” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkul/
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: kul
• Homophone: cool

kul f

1. genitive plural of kula

   Synonym: kuli

kul

1. second-person singular imperative of kulić

Borrowed from English cool.

• IPA^(key): /kûːl/

kȗl (Cyrillic spelling ку̑л)

1. cool: popular, great, in fashion

   Taj frajer je zbilja kul! — That dude is really cool!

kȗl (Cyrillic spelling ку̑л)

1. cool, in a cool manner

kul

1. romanization of 𒆰 (kul)

Of unclear origin. Perhaps a clipping from an earlier kulan, from kula. First seen in 1911.

• IPA^(key): /kʉːl/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːl

kul (comparative mer kul, superlative mest kul)

1. fun

   Det är kul att åka skateboard

   It's fun to ride a skateboard

2. funny

   Vill du höra ett kul skämt?

   Want to hear a funny joke?

3. (nominalized) fun things

   Det finns mycket kul att göra på stadsfestivalen

   There are lots of fun things to do at the city festival

No inflected forms. Sometimes kulig is used colloquially when inflected forms are needed.

• jättekul
• kulig
• skitkul

• kula
• rolig
• skoj

• kul in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kul in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kul in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Unknown.

kul ?

1. bell

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “kul”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 196

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “male slave, servant”), from Old Anatolian Turkish قل (qul), from Proto-Turkic *kul (“slave, servant”).^[1] Cognate to Old Turkic 𐰴𐰆𐰞 (qul, “slave”), Karakhanid قُلْ (qul, “slave”), Kazakh құл (qūl), Khakas хул (xul).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊl/

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• Hyphenation: kul

kul (definite accusative kulu, plural kullar)

1. slave (sense as a noun mostly archaic, except "kul köle" and similar idioms - even figuratively, where "köle" is commoner. An exception is the verb form "kulluk yapmak, "to serve" in pejorative sense)
2. servant
3. position of man according to God (No equivalent, even in "servant" of the lord this sense is preserved. In this context "mortal" sense in vernacular is understood, versus an "immortal god")

• köle

• kul on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr

kul (positional)

1. to sit