Definitions for kraalkrɑl

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

kraalkrɑl(n.)

  1. an enclosure for cattle and other domestic animals in S Africa.

  2. a village of the native peoples of South Africa. such a village as a social unit.

    Category: Sociology, Anthropology

  3. an enclosure where wild animals are exhibited, as in a zoo.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  4. (v.t.)to shut up in a kraal, as cattle.

Origin of kraal:

1725–35; < Afrik

Princeton's WordNet

  1. kraal(noun)

    a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade

  2. kraal(noun)

    a pen for livestock in southern Africa

Wiktionary

  1. kraal(Noun)

    In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.

  2. kraal(Noun)

    An enclosure for livestock.

  3. Origin: From colonial kraal, from curral.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kraal(noun)

    a collection of huts within a stockade; a village; sometimes, a single hut

  2. Kraal(noun)

    an inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated


Translations for kraal

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

bead(noun)

a little ball of glass etc strung with others in a necklace etc

She's wearing two strings of wooden beads.

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