corral

== English == === Etymology === From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈɹæl/, /kəˈɹɑːl/ Rhymes: -æl Hyphenation: cor‧ral === Noun === corral (plural corrals) An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense. ==== Synonyms ==== (livestock enclosure): pen, stockade ==== Derived terms ==== fish corral turtle-corral ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== crawl (Jamaican English) kraal (South African English) === Verb === corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle (US) corraling or (UK) corralling, simple past and past participle (US) corraled or (UK) corralled) To capture or round up. To place inside of a corral. To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral. ==== Derived terms ==== corraler, corraller ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Carrol, carrol == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ.ʁal/ === Noun === corral m (plural corrals) corral === Further reading === “corral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Spanish == === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *currale (“place for keeping a chariot”), from currus (“chariot”). Compare Portuguese curral. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /koˈral/ [koˈral] Rhymes: -al Syllabification: co‧rral === Noun === corral m (plural corrales) (cattle) corral, enclosure Synonym: cercado pollos de corral ― free-range chickens ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Cebuano: koral → English: corral → Mecayapan Nahuatl: cóla̱l → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cora → Polish: corral → Polish: korral → Tagalog: kural === Further reading === “corral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 corral on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es === Anagrams === clorar