strale
See also: stråle
English
Etymology
From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.
Noun
strale (plural strales)
- Arrow.
- (UK, dialect) The pupil of the eye.
Related terms
- streal
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Laster, Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Verb
strale
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of stralen
Anagrams
- laster
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstra.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: strà‧le
Noun
strale m (plural strali)
- (literary) arrow, thunderbolt
- a type of racing dinghy for two people
Related terms
- faretra
Anagrams
- lastre, lestra, starle
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.
Noun
strâle f
- arrow
- stinger (of an insect)
- point of a weapon
- (rare) ray, beam
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- strâel
Derived terms
- strâlen
Descendants
- Dutch: straal
- Afrikaans: straal
- → Papiamentu: stral, straal
- Limburgish: straol
Further reading
- “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael