strale

From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“beam, ray, arrow”). More at streal.

strale (plural strales)

1. Beam, ray (e.g. of light)

• streal

• “strale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Laster, ratels, alters, stelar, Tarsle, talers, streal, staler, estral, alerts, tarsel, resalt, slater, Slater, Salter, tralse, laster, Trelas, laters, artels, salter

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strale

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of stralen

• laster

Borrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu. First attested in 1266.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: strà‧le

strale m (plural strali)

1. (literary, poetic) arrow, dart, thunderbolt

   Synonyms: freccia, saetta

   strali di Cupido ― Cupid's darts

2. (figurative, by extension) strike, blow

   Synonyms: colpo, trafittura, dolore

   • 2000 [1472], Dante Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander, transl., La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy], Doubleday:

     Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta
     più caramente; e questo è quello strale
     che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.

     You shall leave behind all you most dearly love,
     and that shall be the arrow
     first loosed from exile's bow.

3. (figurative, by extension) accusation or criticism; shots fired

   Synonyms: accusa, critica

   • 2023 August 24, Alessandra Colarizi, “Il potere dei soldi di Pechino sul consenso del Sud globale: il “sogno sino-africano” di Xi al vertice dei Brics [The power of Beijing's money on the Global South: Xi's "Sino-African dream" at the BRICS summit]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano‎^[1]:

     Ma è soprattutto contro gli Stati Uniti che sono diretti gli strali cinesi.

     But China's accusations are mostly leveled against the United States.

4. racing dinghy for two people

• faretra

• lastre, lestra, starle

From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.

strâle f

1. arrow
2. stinger (of an insect)
3. point of a weapon
4. (rare) ray, beam

• strâel

• strâlen

• Dutch: straal
  • Afrikaans: straal
  • → Papiamentu: stral, straal
• Limburgish: straol

• “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael