kerel

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.rəl/

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• Hyphenation: ke‧rel
• Rhymes: -eːrəl

From Middle Dutch kerel, carel, caerl, kerl, from Old Dutch *karl, *karal, *keril, from Proto-West Germanic *karil, from Proto-Germanic *karilaz.

Cognate with German Kerl, Dutch Low Saxon keerl, West Frisian tsjirl, English churl, Danish karl.

kerel m (plural kerels, diminutive kereltje n)

1. lad, fellow, bloke

• Karel

• Afrikaans: kêrel
• Jersey Dutch: kääd'l
• → Saterland Frisian: kerel, kërel, kërdel^[1]
• → West Frisian: keardel, kearel

From Middle Dutch kerle. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

kerel m (plural kerels, diminutive kereltje n)

1. (historical or archaic) a long overgarment

• rekel

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁂𑀇 (karei), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀓𑀭𑁄𑀢𑀺 (karoti), from Sanskrit क॒रोति॑ (karóti), from कृ॒णोति॑ (kṛṇóti), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥náwti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- + *-néwti. Cognate with Hindi करना (karnā), Punjabi ਕਰਨਾ (karnā), Nepali गर्नु (garnu), Gujarati કરવું (karvũ), Marathi करणे (karṇe), Bengali করা (kora), and Assamese কৰ (kor).

• IPA^(key): /ke.ˈrel/, /kə.ˈrel/

kerel

1. to do

   Na ʒanav so te kerav. ― I don't know what to do.

2. to make, create, produce

   Morro dad kerdǎs o kazàn. ― My dad made the kettle.

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “karṓti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 142
• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kerél”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 139b-140b
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ker/el, -dǎs”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 192a