kapal

From Malay kapal, from Tamil கப்பல் (kappal, “ship, sailing vessel”).

kapal

1. ship (large water vessel)

kapal

1. Romanization of ᬓᬧᬮ᭄

• Hyphenation: ka‧pal

kapal

1. the yellow-tailed sergeant major (Abudefduf notatus)

From Malay kapal, from Tamil கப்பல் (kappal, “ship, sailing vessel”).

kapal (plural kapal-kapal, first-person possessive kapalku, second-person possessive kapalmu, third-person possessive kapalnya)

1. ship (large water vessel)

kapal

1. horse

Borrowed from Tagalog kapal.

kapal

1. thick

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

kapal

1. ship

From Tamil கப்பல் (kappal, “ship, sailing vessel”).

• IPA^(key): /kapal/
• Rhymes: -apal, -pal, -al

kapal (plural kapal-kapal, informal first-person singular possessive kapalku, impolite second-person singular possessive kapalmu, third-person singular possessive kapalnya)

1. ship (large water vessel)

• Ambonese Malay: kapal
• Indonesian: kapal
• → Thai: กำปั่น (gam-bpàn)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Indonesian tebal, Malay tebal).

kapal

1. thickness

kapal

1. thick

   Makapal ang tela ng damit kaya mainit ang pakiramdam kapag isinuot ito.

   The shirt's fabric is thick hence wearing it feels hot.

2. (colloquial) Being too cocky to the point of criticizing bluntly.

   Ang kapal talaga ng hayop na yun!

   That pig is so full of himself!

• (colloquial) kapal ng mukha (literally “thick-faced”) -- Pertaining to a cocky, self-righteous individual.