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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɜːl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [khəːɫ]
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• US: /kɜɹl/
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• US: [khɝɫ]
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• Scotland: /kʌrl/
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• Scotland: [khʌrɫ]
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• Scotland: [khʌɾɫ]
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• /keːl/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /kɛːl/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)l
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, from the noun curl. * As a German surname, variant of Kerl.

From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), of uncertain origin but probably from an unrecorded Old English word or from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), connected to *krūsą (“curl”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian Bokmål krøll (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).

176 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَعْدَة (jaʕda) — curving lock of hair
• Bashkir: бөҙрә (böźrə) — curving lock of hair
• Bulgarian: къдри́ца (kǎdríca) — curving lock of hair
• Bulgarian: бу́кла (búkla) — curving lock of hair
• Catalan: rínxol — curving lock of hair
• Catalan: caragol — curving lock of hair
• Catalan: floc — curving lock of hair
• Catalan: bucle — curving lock of hair
• Czech: kudrna — curving lock of hair
• Czech: kučera — curving lock of hair
• Czech: kadeř — curving lock of hair
• Danish: lok — curving lock of hair
• Dutch: krul — curving lock of hair
• Dutch: lok — curving lock of hair
• Esperanto: buklo — curving lock of hair
• Finnish: kihara — curving lock of hair
• French: boucle — curving lock of hair
• Galician: crecho — curving lock of hair
• Galician: penecho — curving lock of hair
• Galician: frechón — curving lock of hair
• Galician: grifo — curving lock of hair
• Galician: carrapizo — curving lock of hair
• Galician: bucre — curving lock of hair
• Galician: respizo — curving lock of hair
• German: Locke — curving lock of hair
• Ancient Greek: ὄστλιγξ (óstlinx) — curving lock of hair
• Hebrew: תלתל (taltal) — curving lock of hair
• Hungarian: fürt — curving lock of hair
• Icelandic: lokkur — curving lock of hair
• Ido: loklo — curving lock of hair
• Ingrian: kuudra — curving lock of hair
• Irish: cuach — curving lock of hair
• Irish: coirnín — curving lock of hair
• Italian: riccio — curving lock of hair
• Italian: ricciolo — curving lock of hair
• Italian: boccolo — curving lock of hair
• Japanese: 巻き毛 (makige) — curving lock of hair
• Korean: 곱슬머리 (gopseulmeori) — curving lock of hair
• Latgalian: cārta — curving lock of hair
• Latgalian: sprūga — curving lock of hair
• Latin: cirrus — curving lock of hair
• Latvian: cirta — curving lock of hair
• Maltese: nokkla — curving lock of hair
• Manx: keshag — curving lock of hair
• Manx: cassag — curving lock of hair
• Māori: māwhatu — curving lock of hair
• Norman: boucl'ye — curving lock of hair
• Norman: corle — curving lock of hair
• Norwegian: lokk — curving lock of hair
• Norwegian: kroll — curving lock of hair
• Persian: زلف (zolf) — curving lock of hair
• Plautdietsch: Kroll — curving lock of hair
• Polish: lok — curving lock of hair
• Polish: kędzior — curving lock of hair
• Portuguese: cacho — curving lock of hair
• Portuguese: caracol — curving lock of hair
• Russian: ло́кон (lókon) — curving lock of hair
• Russian: завито́к (zavitók) — curving lock of hair
• Russian: кудря́шка (kudrjáška) — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: cuach — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: snìomh — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: bachal — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: cam-lùb — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: dual — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: camalag — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: clann — curving lock of hair
• Scottish Gaelic: camag — curving lock of hair
• Serbo-Croatian: lokna — curving lock of hair
• Sicilian: rizzu — curving lock of hair
• Slovak: kučera — curving lock of hair
• Spanish: rizo — curving lock of hair
• Spanish: bucle — curving lock of hair
• Swedish: lock — curving lock of hair
• Swedish: hårlock — curving lock of hair
• Telugu: కురులు (kurulu) — curving lock of hair
• Ottoman Turkish: پورچك (pürçek) — curving lock of hair
• Ottoman Turkish: مار (mar) — curving lock of hair
• Ukrainian: кучер (kučer) — curving lock of hair
• Welsh: cwrl — curving lock of hair
• Bulgarian: извивка (izvivka) — curved stroke or shape
• Finnish: kihara — curved stroke or shape
• Italian: arricciamento — curved stroke or shape
• Russian: завито́к (zavitók) — curved stroke or shape
• Russian: завиту́шка (zavitúška) — curved stroke or shape
• Welsh: cwrl — curved stroke or shape
• Finnish: kierre — spin making the trajectory curve
• Italian: rotazione — spin making the trajectory curve
• Italian: spirale — spin making the trajectory curve
• Swedish: skruv — spin making the trajectory curve
• Finnish: kierre — curling: movement
• Italian: voluta — curling: movement
• Swedish: curl — curling: movement
• Bulgarian: сгъване (sgǎvane) — weightlifting: type of exercise
• Finnish: pumppaus — weightlifting: type of exercise
• Spanish: flexión — weightlifting: type of exercise
• Asturian: rotor — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Asturian: rotacional — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Bulgarian: ротация (rotacija) — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Catalan: rotacional — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Czech: rotace — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Finnish: roottori — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• French: rotationnel — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Galician: rotacional — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Italian: rotazione — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Italian: rotore — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Polish: rotacja — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Portuguese: rotacional — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Spanish: rotacional — vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field
• Asturian: rotor — mathematics: vector operator
• Asturian: rotacional — mathematics: vector operator
• Bulgarian: ротор (rotor) — mathematics: vector operator
• Catalan: rotacional — mathematics: vector operator
• Czech: rotace — mathematics: vector operator
• Dutch: rotatie — mathematics: vector operator
• Finnish: roottori — mathematics: vector operator
• French: rotationnel — mathematics: vector operator
• Galician: rotacional — mathematics: vector operator
• Italian: rotore — mathematics: vector operator
• Polish: rotacja — mathematics: vector operator
• Portuguese: rotacional — mathematics: vector operator
• Russian: ро́тор (rótor) — mathematics: vector operator
• Spanish: rotacional — mathematics: vector operator
• Swedish: rotation — mathematics: vector operator
• Finnish: polte — plant disease
• Italian: arricciamento — plant disease
• Italian: accartocciamento — plant disease
• Welsh: crychiad — plant disease
• Finnish: loimukuvio — music: light and dark figure seen in wood
• Bulgarian: извивам (izvivam) — to cause to move in a curve
• Finnish: pyöräyttää — to cause to move in a curve
• Finnish: kiepauttaa — to cause to move in a curve
• Russian: вить (vitʹ) — to cause to move in a curve
• Russian: искривля́ть (iskrivljátʹ) — to cause to move in a curve
• Bulgarian: накъдрям (nakǎdrjam) — to make into a curl or spiral
• Catalan: caragolar — to make into a curl or spiral
• Finnish: kihartaa — to make into a curl or spiral
• Finnish: kiertää — to make into a curl or spiral
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to make into a curl or spiral
• Finnish: rullata — to make into a curl or spiral
• Finnish: käpristää — to make into a curl or spiral
• Galician: encaracolar — to make into a curl or spiral
• Ancient Greek: ἑλίσσω (helíssō) — to make into a curl or spiral
• Portuguese: encaracolar — to make into a curl or spiral
• Scottish Gaelic: snìomh — to make into a curl or spiral
• Ottoman Turkish: بوكمك (bükmek) — to make into a curl or spiral
• Ottoman Turkish: اكمك (eğmek) — to make into a curl or spiral
• Bulgarian: накъдрям се (nakǎdrjam se) — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Finnish: kihartua — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Finnish: rullautua — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Finnish: mennä rullalle — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Finnish: käpristyä — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Māori: kapukapu — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Old English: crincan — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Ottoman Turkish: چوركلنمك (çöreklenmek) — to assume the shape of a curl or spiral
• Bulgarian: извивам се (izvivam se) — to move in curves
• Finnish: kiemurrella — to move in curves
• Finnish: mutkitella — to move in curves
• Finnish: luikertaa — to move in curves
• Finnish: luikerrella — to move in curves
• Russian: ви́ться (vítʹsja) — to move in curves
• Russian: извива́ться (izvivátʹsja) — to move in curves
• Finnish: pelata curlingia — to take part in the sport of curling
• Finnish: kurlata — to take part in the sport of curling
• Swedish: spela curling — to take part in the sport of curling
• Bulgarian: сгъвам (sgǎvam) — weightlifting: to exercise by bending on the exertion
• Bulgarian: сгъна (sgǎna) — weightlifting: to exercise by bending on the exertion
• Finnish: pumpata — weightlifting: to exercise by bending on the exertion
• Polish: skręt — weightlifting: to exercise by bending on the exertion
• Azerbaijani: burmaq — to twist or form into ringlets
• Bulgarian: къдря (kǎdrja) — to twist or form into ringlets
• Finnish: kihartaa — to twist or form into ringlets
• Māori: takawiriwiri — to twist or form into ringlets
• Finnish: koristella — to deck with, or as if with, curls
• Bulgarian: накъдрям се (nakǎdrjam se) — to raise in waves or undulations
• Finnish: aallottaa — to raise in waves or undulations
• Finnish: taivuttaa — to shape the brim of a hat into a curve