Noun: kul
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Han fikk en stor kul i panna. (He got a large bump on his forehead.)
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en stor kul i panden (a large bump on the forehead) [1921, Sigrid Undset, Husfrue, page 42:]
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en kul i magen (a lump in the abdomen) [1898, Hans E. Kinck, Hugormen, page 60:]
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en kul i pungen (a lump in the scrotum) [2021, Nina Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl, Gutteboka, page 133:]
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De satte seg på en liten kul i terrenget. (They sat down on a small rise in the terrain.)
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Skihopperen landet på kulen. (The ski jumper landed on the knoll.)
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spiller de kul eller bank (whether they play kul or bank) [1957, Bjørn Rongen, I jøkulens skygge, page 145:]
Nouns inflected like kul
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Related to kule (“ball; lump, swelling”), from Old Norse kúla (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *kūlǭ (“bump, swelling”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk kul, Swedish kul and kula, Icelandic kúla, German Kaule and Dutch kuil (“bump, swelling; pit, hollow”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
kúla', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
kul', Icelandic Nouns '
kúla', German Nouns '
Kaule', Dutch Nouns '
kuil'.
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