strale

From Middle English stral, from Old English strǣl (“arrow”). More at streal.

strale (plural strales)

1. Arrow.
2. (UK, dialect) The pupil of the eye.

• streal

• Laster, Salter, Slater, alerts, alters, artels, estral, laster, laters, ratels, resalt, salter, slater, staler, stelar, streal, talers, tarsel, tralse

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strale

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of stralen

• laster

Borrowed from Lombardic strāla f (“arrow, beam”) (compare Middle High German strâle and Modern German Strahl m), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu. First attested in 1266.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: strà‧le

strale m (plural strali)

1. (literary, poetic) arrow, dart, thunderbolt

   Synonyms: freccia, saetta

   strali di Cupido ― Cupid's darts

2. (figurative, by extension) strike, blow

   Synonyms: colpo, trafittura, dolore

   • 2000 [1472], Dante Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander, transl., La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy], Doubleday:

     Tu lascerai ogne cosa diletta \ più caramente; e questo è quello strale \ che l'arco de lo essilio pria saetta.

     You shall leave behind all you most dearly love, \ and that shall be the arrow \ first loosed from exile's bow.

3. (figurative, by extension) accusation or criticism; shots fired

   Synonyms: accusa, critica

   • 2023 August 24, Alessandra Colarizi, “Il potere dei soldi di Pechino sul consenso del Sud globale: il “sogno sino-africano” di Xi al vertice dei Brics [The power of Beijing's money on the Global South: Xi's "Sino-African dream" at the BRICS summit]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano‎:

     Ma è soprattutto contro gli Stati Uniti che sono diretti gli strali cinesi.

     But China's accusations are mostly leveled against the United States.

4. racing dinghy for two people

• faretra

• lastre, lestra, starle

From Old Dutch strāla, from Proto-West Germanic *strālu.

strâle f

1. arrow
2. stinger (of an insect)
3. point of a weapon
4. (rare) ray, beam

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• strâel

• strâlen

• Dutch: straal
  • Afrikaans: straal
  • → Papiamentu: stral, straal
• Limburgish: straol

• “strael”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “strael”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page strael