# kool
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

#### Adjective

kool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)
* (slang) Alternative spelling of cool

##### Usage notes

Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kool Aid.

### Etymology 2

Back slang for look.

#### Alternative forms

* cool

#### Verb

kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)
* (obsolete, costermongers) To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
** c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 161:Now kool my downy kicksies—the style for me, / Built on a plan werry naughty,
** 1903 October, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, quoting Hogg, Quintin, “Quintin Hogg and the London Polytechnic”, in Missionary Review of the World‎, volume 26, number 16, page 734:We had not been engaged in our reading very long when at the far end of the arch I noticed a twinkling light. "Kool esclop!" shouted one of the boys, at the same moment doucing the glim and bolting with his companion, leaving me in the dark with my upset beer bottle and my douced candle, forming a spectacle which seemed to arouse suspicion on the part of our friend the policeman, whose light it was that had appeared in the distance.
** 2014 October 18, “Golborne Road, Miscellaneous Memories”, in WordPress‎, retrieved 2017-06-06:“Kool retfa the posh” he’d call to Mum, “I’m going to ekat the yenom to the kaynab” Somewhere Dad had learnt Backslang and this was the preferred medium of communication between him and Mum when there were customers in the shop. What he had just said was, “Look after the shop, I’m taking the money to the bank”

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:look

### Anagrams

* Look, kolo, look

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʊəl/
* Hyphenation: kool

### Etymology 1

From Dutch kool, from Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.

#### Noun

kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)
* cabbage, ​cole

##### Derived terms

* koolakker
* koolblaar
* koolbredie
* koolkop
* koolplantjie
* koolraap
* koolsaad
* koolsop
* koolstronk

### Etymology 2

From Dutch kool, from Middle Dutch cole, from Old Dutch *kol, *kolo, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷol-, from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).

#### Noun

kool (plural kole, diminutive kooltjie)
* coal
* carbon
* koolaanpaksel
* koolaanslag
* koolaar
* koolafval
* koolbak
* koolbedding
* koolborsel
* kooldamp
* kooldatering
* kooldeurslag
* kooldraad
* kooldruk
* kooldrukpapier
* koolelektrode
* koolgruis
* koolhidraat
* koolhoop
* koolkamer
* koolklop
* koollaag
* koollaaier
* koolloos
* koolmyn
* koolokside
* kooloksied
* koolpapier
* koolpuin
* koolpunt
* koolroet
* Koolsak
* koolsif
* koolskop
* koolspits
* koolstof
* koolstofdioksied
* koolstofhoudend
* koolstofmonokside
* koolstofmonoksied
* koolstofverbinding
* koolstoof
* koolswart
* koolteer
* kooltrok
* koolvalslandmeter
* koolvesel
* koolvis
* koolvorming
* koolvuur
* koolwa
* koolwaterstof
* koolwaterstofgas

## Cornish
### Noun

kool
* Hard mutation of gool.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: kool
* Rhymes: -oːl

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.

#### Noun

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)
* a cabbage, plant of genus Brassica
    Hypernym: kruisbloem
* (particularly) the edible leaves of a Brassica

##### Derived terms

* bloemkool
* boerenkool
* Chinese kool
* koolraap
* koolsla
* koolwitje
* rode kool
* spitskool
* spruitkool
* witte kool
* wittekool
* zandkool
* zuurkool

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: kool
* Jersey Dutch: kôl
* Negerhollands: kool
* → Caribbean Hindustani: koro
* → Chinese: 高麗 / 高丽, 高麗菜／高丽菜 (via Min Nan)
* → Indonesian: kol
* → Mahican: gónan
* → Papiamentu: kolo
* → Sranan Tongo: kolo

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch cole, from Old Dutch *kol, *kolo, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷol-, from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”).
May originate from a neuter plurale tantum that was reanalysed as a feminine singular; compare Old Norse kol. Cognate with West Frisian koal, German Kohle, English coal, Danish kul.

#### Noun

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)
* coal
* carbon

##### Synonyms

* (carbon): koolstof

##### Derived terms

* actieve kool
* bruinkool
* houtskool
* kooldioxide
* koolmonoxide
* koolstof
* steenkool
* verkolen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: kool
* Negerhollands: kool

### Anagrams

* look

## Estonian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German schôle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoːl/, [ˈkoːl]
* Rhymes: -oːl
* Hyphenation: kool

### Noun

kool (genitive kooli, partitive kooli)
* school

#### Derived terms

* koolivorm
* kooliõpetaja
* kunstikool
* ülikool

### Further reading

* “kool”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “kool”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* kool in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Tlingit
### Noun

kool (see inflected forms below)
* navel; bellybutton

#### Inflection

| | singular | plural |
| 1st person | ax̱ kool | haa kool |
| 2nd person | i kool | yee kool |
| 3rd person (human) | du kool | du kool |
| 3rd person (non-human) | a kool | a kool |
| 3rd person (proximate) | ash kool | ash kool |
| Indefinite (human) | ha kool | ha kool |
| Indefinite (non-human) | at kool | at kool |
| Reflexive | chush kool | chush kool |
| Reciprocal | woosh kool | woosh kool |

## Yucatec Maya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kòːl/

### Verb

kool (transitive)
* to touch, to rub

### Noun

kool (plural kooloʼob)
* field, milpa