pekel

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛkɛl]

pekel

1. genitive plural of peklo

From Middle Dutch peeckel, pekele. Etymology uncertain. The word is originally restricted to Dutch, Low German and Frisian. A relation with French piquer, piquant is sometimes supposed.

Cognate with Limburgish paekel, West Flemish pekel, Zealandic pekel, Middle Low German pekel, West Frisian pekel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.kəl/

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• Hyphenation: pe‧kel
• Rhymes: -eːkəl

pekel m (uncountable)

1. brine (salt water) [First attested in the early 16th century.]

   Synonym: brijn

• →? English: pickle
  • → French: pickles
  • → Greek: πίκλα (píkla)
  • → Irish: picil
  • → Korean: 피클 (pikeul)
  • → Maltese: pikles
  • → Welsh: picil
• →? German: Pökel
• → Papiamentu: pekel
• → Walloon: pike, péke

pekel

1. inflection of pekelen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.

pekel

1. celebration where pigs are butchered performed before a rice harvest to invoke a good harvest

pekel m (Cyrillic spelling пекел)

1. (Kajkavian) hell

   Synonym: pakao

   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, Balade Petrice Kerempuha:

     Hej haj nek cvate maj,
     nigdar nas v pekel taj nebu nazaj.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ.

• IPA^(key): /pəkə́ʋ/, /pə̀kəʋ/

pəkə̏l or pə̀kəl m inan

1. hell

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