kale

From Middle English cale or cal (northern dialect), variant of col (“cole”), Old English cāl, cāul, cāwel, from Latin caulis. Compare English cole, Icelandic kál (“cabbage”), German Kohl (“cabbage”).

• IPA^(key): /keɪl/
• Hyphenation: kale

kale (usually uncountable, plural kales)

1. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)

   Synonym: borecole

2. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
3. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
4. (dated, slang) Money.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Efficiency Expert‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:

     I’ll bet he takes nine-tenths of his kale from women and children, and he’s an honored citizen.

• → Japanese: ケール (kēru)

• Alek, Lake, Leak, lake, leak

Borrowed from French cailler, from Latin coāgulō.

kale

1. (Uri) to congeal, curdle

• “kale” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 63.

kale

1. street

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kale

1. Inflected form of kaal

• lake

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑleˣ/, [ˈkɑle̞(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: ka‧le
• Rhymes: -e

kale

1. (botany) glume

• helve

• Kela, kela, leka

kale

1. (defective) should or ought to

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.lɛ/

kale

1. inflection of kał:
   1. locative singular
   2. vocative singular

kale

1. plural of kalo

kale (n class, plural kale)

1. antiquity, the past

-a kale (invariable)

1. ancient, old

• -pya

From Arabic قَلْعَة‎ (qalʿa, “fort, fortress”).

• IPA^(key): [kɑˈle]

kale (definite accusative kaleyi, plural kaleler)

1. fort, castle, fortress, stronghold
2. (chess) rook
3. (sports) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put the ball)
4. (politics) stronghold (of an ideology)