Noun: kraal
| Singular | kraal |
| Plural | kraals |
Sample Sentences
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Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces. [1861, Charles John Andersson, “chapter VII”, in Lake Ngami, page 89:]
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‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’ [1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 88:]
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A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. [1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 6:]
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The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal. [2000 July 3, Jonathan Amos, “'Funny creature' toast of Botswana”, in BBC News Online:]
Nouns inflected like kraal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral. See: Dutch Nouns '
kraal', Portuguese Nouns '
curral'.