curral

From Old Galician-Portuguese curral, of uncertain origin. Maybe from Vulgar Latin *currālis, from Latin currus (“charriot”). Cognate with Portuguese curral and Spanish corral.

• IPA^(key): [ku.ˈral]

curral m (plural currais)

1. corral
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 625:

     Et teu yrmão Fernã Gonçaluez, cõna muy grã coyta que ouue, sey(nd)o do paaço fugindo et saltou en hũu curral que nõ era muy limpo; et, quando el et seus panos ende seyrõ nõ cheyrauã a musgo

     And your brother Fernán González, with the great trouble he had, getting out of the palace and fleeing he jumped into a corral that was not very clean; and, when he finally got out of it, his clothes didn't smell of musk

2. yard
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 179:

     Poys que elles forõ ydos, fezo dõna Lanbra poer hũu escano en meo de seu curral, guisado et cuberto de panos com̃o para morto.

     After they were gone, Lady Lanbra ordered to put a bier in the middle of her yard, prepared and covered with clothes as if prepared for a dead person

3. bailey
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     mandamos que o dicto martin bezerra et sua moller que desfaçan et derruben por fondamento o curral et portaes et çerquas et muros et outro lauor uello et nouo que esta arredor da dicta casa noua et da caua uella que esta cabo da dicta casa noua contra a mota

     We order that said Martín Becerra and his wife must undo and demolish by its foundations the bailey and gates and walls and enclosures and other new and old work around of said new house, and of the old house that is near said house by the motte

4. square, courtyard
   • 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández, editor, Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 30:

     A qual cassa está ẽno canto que ssal aa rrúa do Canal; da qual casa a outra meadade foy da Órdẽe do Tẽple et tẽse da hũa parte cõ outra casa que he desta teẽça en que ssuýa morar Sancha Vaqua; et da outra sse tẽ cõ hũu formal de hũa casa que foy queymada; et saen estas cassas anbas a hũu curral pequeno que ha entrada perla rrúa do Canal et ssaen a este cural outras cassas do cabídoo que ssom da teença de Taueyroos et outras cassas da Moeda Noua.

     Said house is in the corner that faces the Rúa do Canal [Canal street]; of said house the other half belonged to the Order of the Temple and it is sided by another house which belonged to this holding and is where Sancha Vaca lived; and in the other side it has a plot of a house that was burned down; and both houses face a small square which opens by the Rúa do Canal, and other houses face this square, among them some houses of the Chapter that belong to the holding of Tabeirós, and other houses that belongs to the new mint

• Curral
• Currás

• curro

• “curral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “curral” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “curral” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “curral” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “curral” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese curral, of uncertain origin. Maybe from Vulgar Latin *currālis, from currus (“chariot”). Cognate with Galician curral and Spanish corral.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cur‧ral

curral m (plural currais)

1. corral, pen (enclosure for animals)

• → Dutch: kraal
  • Afrikaans: kraal
  • → English: kraal

• curral on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt