adel

From Dutch adel, from Middle Dutch adel, from Old Dutch *athal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.dəl/

adel (uncountable)

1. nobility, aristocracy

From Middle Dutch adel, from Old Dutch *athal, from Proto-West Germanic *aþal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdəl/

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• Hyphenation: adel
• Rhymes: -aːdəl

adel m (uncountable)

1. nobility

   De adel had vroeger veel macht in Europa. ― The nobility used to have a lot of power in Europe.

   Hij stamt af van de oude adel. ― He descends from the old nobility.

   In veel landen is de adel een ceremoniële klasse. ― In many countries, the nobility is a ceremonial class.

• Afrikaans: adel
• → Estonian: aadel^[1]
• → Javanese: adhel
• → Papiamentu: adel

• dale, lade

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adel

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

• addull, adyll

From Old English adel, adela, from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈadəl/

adel (plural and weak singular adle) (rare)

1. rotten, addled (of an egg).
2. muddled (of brains).

• English: addle
• Scots: addle, addil, aidle, aidil, adle

• “adel(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• adele, addel

From Old Saxon *athal, from Proto-West Germanic *aþal.

adel

1. nobility

• Low German: Adel
• Westphalian:

  Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: iadel

• → Norwegian: adel^[1]
• → Swedish: adel^[1]
  • → Finnish: aateli^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ̀ːdel/

Formally, the word is the same as Old Norse aðal, but the meaning is derived from Middle Low German adel; compare modern German Adel.

adel m (definite singular adelen, uncountable)

1. nobility

• adle

• Falk, Hjalmar, Torp, Alf (1903–06) Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog [Etymological Dictionary of the Norwegian and Danish Languages]

From Old Norse aðal.

adel m

1. (dialectal) heartwood

• kjerneved

• Ivar Aasen (1850) “adel”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[3] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
• “adel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /¹aːdəl/, [¹ɐ̞ːd.əl], [¹ɐ̞ːd.l̩]

adel m (definite singular adelen, indefinite plural adlar, definite plural adlane)

1. nobility

• adla

• “adel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ādel f

1. Alternative form of ādl

From Old Swedish adel, borrowed from or influenced by Middle Low German adel (“noble descent; nobility”), from Old Saxon athal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (whence also Old Swedish aþal-).^[1][2] Related to German Adel and English athel. Compare also Icelandic aðall (“nobility”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdɛl/

adel c (uncountable)

1. nobility, aristocracy.

   Den svenska adeln har idag inga särskilda privilegier.

   Today the Swedish nobility has no special privileges.

• ädel
• ädling

• adel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)

• Edla, dela, lade, leda

adel (nominative plural adels)

1. today

• adelo
• adelo gödiko

• ädelo
• ädelo gödiko
• del
• kronamadel
• läbadel
• odelo gödiko