canal

English

A canal.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French canal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French canal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

Pronunciation

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  Audio (UK):

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /kəˈnæl/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -æl

Noun

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway, often connecting one body of water with another
2. A tubular channel within the body.

Related terms

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

Translations

artificial waterway

• Albanian: kanal (sq) m
• Arabic: قَنَاة f (qanāh)
• Armenian: ջրանցք (ǰrancʻkʻ)
• Asturian: canal m
• Azeri: arx (az), kanal (az)
• Belarusian: кана́л m (kanál)
• Bengali: খাল (khal)
• Breton: kanol (br)
• Bulgarian: кана́л (bg) m (kanál)
• Burmese: မြောင်း (my) (mraung:)
• Catalan: canal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 運河／运河 (wan⁶ ho⁴), 运河 (wan⁶ ho⁴)

  Mandarin: 運河／运河 (zh) (yùnhé), 运河 (zh) (yùnhé)

  Min Nan: 運河／运河 (zh-min-nan), 运河 (ūn-hô)

• Czech: kanál (cs) m, průplav (cs) m
• Danish: kanal (da) c
• Dutch: kanaal (nl) n, vaart (nl) f, gracht (nl) f (in a city, more commonly used in Holland)
• Esperanto: kanalo
• Estonian: kanal
• Finnish: kanava (fi)
• French: canal (fr) m
• Galician: canal m, canle (gl) f
• Georgian: არხი (arxi)
• German: Kanal (de) m
• Greek: κανάλι (el) n (kanáli)
• Hebrew: תְּעָלָה (he) f (te'ala)
• Hindi: नहर f (nahar)
• Hungarian: csatorna (hu)
• Icelandic: skurður (is) m
• Indonesian: kanal (id), terusan (id)
• Italian: canale (it) m
• Japanese: 運河 (ja) (うんが, unga), 水路 (ja) (すいろ, suiro)
• Kazakh: канал (kk) (kanal)
• Khmer: ប្រឡាយ (km) (prɑlaay)
• Korean: 운하 (ko)
• Kyrgyz: канал (ky) (kanal)
• Lao: ຄອງ (lo) (khǭng), ຕະຄອງ (ta khǭng), ລຳຄອງ (lam khǭng)
• Latin: fossa f
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• Latvian: kanāls (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kanalas (lt) m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: daip n (Gronings), knoal n (Gronings and Sallands), wetering f (Sallands)

• Macedonian: канал m (kanal)
• Malay: terusan
• Maltese: kanal m
• Mongolian: суваг (mn) (suvag)
• Norman: canal m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kanal (no) m

  Nynorsk: kanal m

• Persian: کانال (fa) (kânâl), آب‌راه (âb-râh)
• Polish: kanał (pl) m
• Portuguese: canal (pt) m
• Romanian: canal (ro) m
• Russian: кана́л (ru) m (kanál)
• Scottish Gaelic: canàl m, sruth-chlais f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: канал m

  Roman: kanal (sh) m

• Slovak: kanál m, prieplav
• Slovene: kanal m, prekop m
• Spanish: canal (es) m or f
• Swahili: mfereji (sw)
• Swedish: kanal (sv) c
• Tajik: канал (kanal)
• Telugu: కాలువ (te) (kāluva)
• Thai: คลอง (klong), ลำน้ำ (lamnáam)
• Turkish: ark (tr), kanal (tr)
• Turkmen: kanal
• Ukrainian: кана́л (uk) m (kanál)
• Urdu: نہر f (nahar)
• Uyghur: قانلا (qanla)
• Uzbek: kanal (uz)
• Venetian: val (vec) f, vałe f
• Vietnamese: kênh đào
• Welsh: camlas
• Yiddish: קאַנאַל m (kanal), דורכגאָס m (durkhgos)

a tubular channel within the body

• Bulgarian: канал (bg) m (kanal)
• Czech: kanálek m
• Dutch: kanaal (nl) n
• French: canal (fr) m
• Japanese: 管 (kan)
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• Norman: canal m (Jersey)
• Polish: przewód (pl) m
• Romanian: canal (ro) n
• Slovak: kanálok m
• Spanish: canal (es) m or f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} kanaal
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} canle (gl)
• Pennsylvania German: ^{(please verify)} kanaal
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} नहर (nahar)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} skurður (is)
• (deprecated template usage) Interlingua: canal
• Isthmus Zapotec: ^{(please verify)} biasa
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• Kurdish:
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} кана́л m (kanál)
• Samogitian: ^{(please verify)} kanals
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} njia ya maji, ^{(please verify)} mfereji (sw)
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} கால்வாய் (ta) (kālvāy)
• (deprecated template usage) Telugu: ^{(please verify)} కాలువ (kāluva) (1, 2)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} kanal

Verb

canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
2. To travel along a canal by boat

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Asturian

Noun

canal m (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

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Catalan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)

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French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  audio (un canal):

  (file)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. canal
2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

Related terms

• chenal

See also

• chaîne

Anagrams

• lança

External links

• “canal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French canal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Noun

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

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Portuguese

canal

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese canal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek , from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈnaw/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈnaɫ/

Noun

1. ditch
2. canal (artificial waterway)
3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
4. (television) television channel

Synonyms

• (ditch): canaleta, vala, valeta

Derived terms

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

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Romanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French canal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis.

Noun

canal n (plural canale)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -al

Noun

canal m (plural es)

1. canal (waterway)
2. channel (of television)
3. (communication) channel
4. (chemistry) channel
5. cleavage

Derived terms

• Canal de Panamá
• canalizar

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Venetian

Noun

canal m (plural canałi)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)