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A kraal is a kind of village in southern Africa, especially South Africa. The homes sit close together inside a fence, often of wood or thorn, so people and animals stay safer at night. Though actually, speakers also use kraal for the cattle yard itself — the round fenced place — not only for the whole village. Farmers can kraal their animals, meaning they drive them into that yard. You will meet the word in history, travel writing, and talk about rural life there; it is not everyday city English.
（南非）圍欄村落；畜欄
組成From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral, a yard for animals. English corral is the sister word that arrived by another road — they are two forms of the same older word.
同家族的字
- corralsame older Portuguese curral; corral came into English by way of Spanish, kraal by way of Dutch in southern Africa
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kraalnoun/kɹɑːl/
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In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
- Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.
- ‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’
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In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
- A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.
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An enclosure for livestock.
- The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.
kraalverb/kɹɑːl/
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To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.
- […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。