canal

Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

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• IPA^(key): /kəˈnæl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kəˈnɛl/
• Rhymes: -æl

canal (plural canals)

1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.

• channel
• channelization
• channelize
• canalization
• canalize

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
   • 1968, Louisiana State University, Proceedings‎, page 165:

     In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.

2. To travel along a canal by boat
   • 1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211:

     Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

• Alcan, Clana, Nalca

From Latin canālis.

canal f (plural canales)

1. canal (artificial waterway)

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

canal m (plural canals)

1. canal; channel (artificial passage for water)

Borrowed from Latin canālis. Doublet of chenal.

• IPA^(key): /ka.nal/

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canal m (plural canaux)

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

• chenal

• chaîne

• “canal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• lança

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +‎ -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

• canar

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnal/

canal m (plural canais)

1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
   • 1375, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.

     5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

   Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira

Borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle, cal.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnal/

canal m (plural canais)

1. canal
2. channel

• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “canal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “canal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

canal m (plural canaux)

1. (Jersey) canal

From Old Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; cf. the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ˈnaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.ˈnaɫ/

canal m (plural canais)

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

• (ditch): canaleta, vala, valeta

• (canal): canal-do-Panamá

• cale
• calha

Borrowed from French canal, Latin canālis.

canal n (plural canale)

1. (plural canaluri) canal
2. channel

From Old Spanish canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnal/
• Rhymes: -al

canal m (plural canales)

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

• acanalar
• Canal de Panamá
• canalizar
• canalón

• “canal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Latin canālis.

canal m (plural canałi)

1. canal
2. channel (all senses)