kanalas

kanál (“spoon”) +‎ -as (adjective-forming suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒnɒlɒʃ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧na‧las
• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

kanalas (not comparable)

1. fluid, liquid (of a medicine to be taken with a spoon)

   kanalas orvosság ― liquid medicine

2. (zoology) spoon- (having a spoon-shaped bill)

   kanalasgémformák ― spoonbills

3. (technology) shovel, bucket (having a spoon or a spoon-shaped implement)

   kanalas rakodógép ― shovel loader

• kanalas in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

 kanalas on Lithuanian Wikipedia

Borrowed from another language, ultimately from Latin canālis.

kanãlas m (plural kanãlai) stress pattern 2

1. canal; channel (man-made waterway)

   Hypernyms: vandens kelias, vandens arterija, vandentakis

   laivybinis kanalas ― ship canal (literally, “navigable canal”)

   irigacinis kanalas ― irrigation canal

   Sueco kanalas, Panamos kanalas ― Suez canal, Panama canal

• “kanalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024