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• Received-Pronunciation: käs'(ə)l
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːsəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɑːsl̩/
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• rhymes with -ɑːsəl
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• kăs'(ə)l US, Canada, Northern England, Victoria
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• /ˈkæsəl/ US, Canada, Northern England, Victoria
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• /kæsl̩/ US, Canada, Northern England, Victoria
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• homophone: Castle
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• homophone: Kastle
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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English surname, from the noun castle.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *ḱstrom Proto-Italic *kastrom Latin castrum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin castellumbor. Proto-West Germanic *kastell Old English castel Middle English castel English castle From Middle English castle, castel, from late Old English castel, castell (“a town, village”), borrowed from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”), diminutive of Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”). Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and château. Parallel borrowings (from Late Latin or Old French) are Scots castel, castell (“castle”), West Frisian kastiel (“castle”), Dutch kasteel (“castle”), German Kastell (“castle”), Danish kastel (“citadel”), Swedish kastell (“citadel”), Icelandic kastali (“castle”), Welsh castell. The late Old English word was borrowed from biblical Latin castellum which has been translated as town or village. With the sense of castle, from Anglo-Norman/Old Northern French castel (“castle”), itself from Late Latin castellum (“small camp, fort”) (compare modern French château from Old French chastel). If Latin castrum (“camp, fort, citadel, stronghold”) is from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“hut, shed”), Latin casa (“cottage, hut”) is related. Possibly related also to Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐌸𐌾𐍉 (hēþjō, “chamber”), Old English heaþor (“restraint, confinement, enclosure, prison”). See also casino, cassock.

261 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kasteel — fortified building
• Albanian: kala — fortified building
• Albanian: këshqel — fortified building
• Albanian: kështjellë — fortified building
• Northern Altai: сумак (sumak) — fortified building
• Southern Altai: сомок (somok) — fortified building
• Arabic: قَلْعَة (qalʕa) — fortified building
• Arabic: قِلْعَة (qilʕa) — fortified building
• Arabic: بُرْج (burj) — fortified building
• Arabic: قَصْر (qaṣr) — fortified building
• Arabic: قَلْعة (galʕa, qalʕa) — fortified building
• Armenian: ամրոց (amrocʻ) — fortified building
• Armenian: դղյակ (dġyak) — fortified building
• Aromanian: culã — fortified building
• Asturian: castiellu — fortified building
• Asturian: castiyu — fortified building
• Avar: хъала (qxala) — fortified building
• Azerbaijani: qala — fortified building
• Azerbaijani: qəsr — fortified building
• Azerbaijani: saray — fortified building
• Baekje: 己 (gi) — fortified building
• Basque: gaztelu — fortified building
• Belarusian: за́мак (zámak) — fortified building
• Bengali: কেল্লা (kella) — fortified building
• Bengali: দুর্গ (durgo) — fortified building
• Bengali: গঞ্জ (gonj) — fortified building
• Breton: kastell — fortified building
• Breton: kestell — fortified building
• Bulgarian: за́мък (zámǎk) — fortified building
• Burmese: ရဲတိုက် (rai:tuik) — fortified building
• Catalan: castell — fortified building
• Chechen: гӏала (ğala) — fortified building
• Chinese Cantonese: 城堡 — fortified building
• Chinese Mandarin: 城堡 (chéngbǎo) — fortified building
• West Circassian: къэлэсэраи (qɛlɛsɛraji) — fortified building
• Crimean Tatar: qale — fortified building
• Czech: hrad — fortified building
• Czech: zámek — fortified building
• Dalmatian: castial — fortified building
• Danish: slot — fortified building
• Danish: borg — fortified building
• Danish: herregård — fortified building
• Dutch: kasteel — fortified building
• Dutch: fort — fortified building
• Dutch: burcht — fortified building
• Dutch: slot — fortified building
• Esperanto: kastelo — fortified building
• Estonian: kindlus — fortified building
• Estonian: linnus — fortified building
• Extremaduran: castillu — fortified building
• Faroese: slott — fortified building
• Faroese: borg — fortified building
• Finnish: linna — fortified building
• Franco-Provençal: châtél — fortified building
• French: château — fortified building
• French: château-fort — fortified building
• Old French: chastel — fortified building
• Old French: castel — fortified building
• West-Frisian: kastiel — fortified building
• West-Frisian: slot — fortified building
• Friulian: cjiscjel — fortified building
• Friulian: cjistiel — fortified building
• Friulian: čhisčhel — fortified building
• Galician: castelo — fortified building
• Georgian: ციხე-დარბაზი (cixe-darbazi) — fortified building
• Georgian: კოშკი (ḳošḳi) — fortified building
• German: Burg — fortified building
• German: Festung — fortified building
• German: Schloss — fortified building
• Old High German: burg — fortified building
• Goguryeo: 忽 (hol) — fortified building
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 (baurgs) — fortified building
• Greek: κάστρο (kástro) — fortified building
• Greek: φρούριο (froúrio) — fortified building
• Ancient Greek: ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis) — fortified building
• Ancient Greek: φρούριον (phroúrion) — fortified building
• Greenlandic: pallittaalisaq — fortified building
• Greenlandic: illussaarsuaq — fortified building
• Hebrew: טִירָה (tirá) — fortified building
• Hindi: क़िला (qilā) — fortified building
• Hindi: दुर्ग (durg) — fortified building
• Hindi: गढ़ (gaṛh) — fortified building
• Hindi: बुर्ज (burj) — fortified building
• Hungarian: vár — fortified building
• Hungarian: kastély — fortified building
• Icelandic: kastali — fortified building
• Icelandic: borg — fortified building
• Icelandic: virki — fortified building
• Icelandic: höll — fortified building
• Ido: kastelo — fortified building
• Indonesian: puri — fortified building
• Indonesian: kastil — fortified building
• Interlingua: castello — fortified building
• Irish: caisleán — fortified building
• Italian: castello — fortified building
• Japanese: 城 (shiro) — fortified building
• Japanese: 城郭 (jōkaku) — fortified building
• Kazakh: қамал (qamal) — fortified building
• Kazakh: сарай (sarai) — fortified building
• Khmer: ប្រាសាទ (praasaat) — fortified building
• Khmer: វិមាន (vimiən) — fortified building
• Korean: 성 (seong) — fortified building
• Korean: 성곽 (seonggwak) — fortified building
• Old Korean: 忽 (Silla) — fortified building
• Central Kurdish: قەڵا (qella) — fortified building
• Northern Kurdish: keleh — fortified building
• Kyrgyz: замок (zamok) — fortified building
• Kyrgyz: сепил (sepil) — fortified building
• Kyrgyz: сарай (saray) — fortified building
• Ladino: kastilyo — fortified building
• Lao: ປາງ (pāng) — fortified building
• Lao: ມຸນທຽນ (mun thīan) — fortified building
• Lao: ປາສາດ (pā sāt) — fortified building
• Lao: ຜາສາດ (phā sāt) — fortified building
• Latgalian: piļs — fortified building
• Latin: castellum — fortified building
• Latin: castrum — fortified building
• Latvian: pils — fortified building
• Lithuanian: pilis — fortified building
• Luxembourgish: Schlass — fortified building
• Luxembourgish: Buerg — fortified building
• Luxembourgish: Festung — fortified building
• Macedonian: замок (zamok) — fortified building
• Malay: istana — fortified building
• Malay: kastil — fortified building
• Maltese: kastell — fortified building
• Marathi: किल्ला (killā) — fortified building
• Marathi: दुर्ग (durga) — fortified building
• Marathi: गड (gaḍ) — fortified building
• Mirandese: castielho — fortified building
• Mongolian: цайз (cajz) — fortified building
• Neapolitan: castiello — fortified building
• Norman: châté — fortified building
• Norwegian Bokmål: borg — fortified building
• Norwegian Bokmål: slott — fortified building
• Occitan: castèl — fortified building
• Occitan: castèth — fortified building
• Occitan: castèu — fortified building
• Okinawan: 城 — fortified building
• Old East Slavic: костьръ (kostĭrŭ) — fortified building
• Old English: castel — fortified building
• Old English: fæsten — fortified building
• Old English: burg — fortified building
• Old English: burh — fortified building
• Old Saxon: burg — fortified building
• Old Saxon: burh — fortified building
• Old Saxon: burug — fortified building
• Ossetian: галуан (galwan) — fortified building
• Pashto: قصر (qásər) — fortified building
• Pashto: کلا (kalã) — fortified building
• Dari: دِژ (diž) — fortified building
• Dari: قَلْعَه (qal'a) — fortified building
• Dari: قَصْر (qasr) — fortified building
• Dari: کَلَات (kalāt) — fortified building
• Dari: بُرْج (burj) — fortified building
• Iranian Persian: دِژ (dež) — fortified building
• Iranian Persian: قَلْعِه (ġal'e) — fortified building
• Iranian Persian: قَصْر (ġasr) — fortified building
• Iranian Persian: کَلات (kalât) — fortified building
• Iranian Persian: بُرْج (borj) — fortified building
• Picard: catiau — fortified building
• Plautdietsch: Schlott — fortified building
• Polabian: gord — fortified building
• Polish: zamek — fortified building
• Portuguese: castelo — fortified building
• Quechua: pukara — fortified building
• Romani: dyiz — fortified building
• Romanian: castel — fortified building
• Romansh: chastè — fortified building
• Romansh: chastè-fortezza — fortified building
• Russian: за́мок (zámok) — fortified building
• Sanskrit: दुर्ग (durga) — fortified building
• Sardinian: casteddu — fortified building
• Scots: castle — fortified building
• Scottish Gaelic: caisteal — fortified building
• Serbo-Croatian: дво́рац — fortified building
• Serbo-Croatian: dvórac — fortified building
• Sicilian: casteḍḍu — fortified building
• Slovak: hrad — fortified building
• Slovak: zámok — fortified building
• Slovene: grad — fortified building
• Lower Sorbian: grod — fortified building
• Upper Sorbian: hród — fortified building
• Spanish: castillo — fortified building
• Spanish: castro — fortified building
• Swedish: slott — fortified building
• Swedish: borg — fortified building
• Swedish: befästning — fortified building
• Swedish: fästning — fortified building
• Tabasaran: гъала (ġala) — fortified building
• Tagalog: kastilyo — fortified building
• Tajik: қалъа (qal'a) — fortified building
• Tajik: кӯшк (küšk) — fortified building
• Tajik: қаср (qasr) — fortified building
• Tamil: அரண்மனை (araṇmaṉai) — fortified building
• Tamil: கோட்டை (kōṭṭai) — fortified building
• Thai: ปราสาท (bpraa-sàat) — fortified building
• Turkish: kale — fortified building
• Turkish: şato — fortified building
• Turkish: saray — fortified building
• Turkish: hisar — fortified building
• Turkish: kermen — fortified building
• Ottoman Turkish: قلعه (kalʼe) — fortified building
• Ottoman Turkish: حصار (hisar) — fortified building
• Ottoman Turkish: حصن (hısn) — fortified building
• Ottoman Turkish: كرمان (kerman, kirman) — fortified building
• Ottoman Turkish: قسطل (kastel) — fortified building
• Turkmen: gala — fortified building
• Turkmen: saraý — fortified building
• Ukrainian: за́мок (zámok) — fortified building
• Urdu: دُرْگ (durg) — fortified building
• Urdu: قِلْعَہ (qil'a) — fortified building
• Urdu: قَلْعَہ (qal'a) — fortified building
• Urdu: گَڑْھ (gaṛh) — fortified building
• Urdu: بُرْج (burj) — fortified building
• Uyghur: قەلئە (qel'e) — fortified building
• Uyghur: قەسىر (qesir) — fortified building
• Uyghur: ساراي (saray) — fortified building
• Uzbek: qal'a — fortified building
• Uzbek: qasr — fortified building
• Uzbek: saroy — fortified building
• Venetan: casteło — fortified building
• Venetan: castel — fortified building
• Venetan: casteo — fortified building
• Vietnamese: lâu đài — fortified building
• Volapük: kased — fortified building
• Walloon: tchestea — fortified building
• Welsh: caer — fortified building
• Welsh: castell — fortified building
• Yiddish: שלאָס (shlos) — fortified building
• Yiddish: בורג (burg) — fortified building
• Zazaki: qela — fortified building
• Zazaki: qesr (diq) — fortified building
• Finnish: tornitus — chess: instance of castling
• Bulgarian: правя рокада (pravja rokada) — chess
• Catalan: enrocar — chess
• Chinese Mandarin: 王車易位 /王车易位 (wáng chē yìwèi) — chess
• Czech: rochovat — chess
• Czech: provést rošádu — chess
• Danish: rokere — chess
• Dutch: rokeren — chess
• Esperanto: aroko — chess
• Finnish: tornittaa — chess
• Finnish: linnoittautua — chess
• French: roquer — chess
• Galician: enrocar — chess
• German: rochieren — chess
• Hungarian: sáncol — chess
• Icelandic: hrókera — chess
• Ido: roquar — chess
• Irish: caisligh — chess
• Polish: wieża — chess
• Polish: roszada — chess
• Portuguese: rocar — chess
• Romanian: face rocadă — chess
• Russian: рокирова́ться (rokirovátʹsja) — chess
• Slovak: vykonať rošádu — chess
• Slovene: rokirati — chess
• Spanish: enrocar — chess
• Swedish: rockera — chess
• Turkish: rok atmak — chess