orel

See also: Orel, Orël, and ôreł

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech orel, from Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *arélis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorɛl]
• Hyphenation: or‧el

Noun

orel m anim (female equivalent orlice)

1. eagle (bird) [14th c.]
2. tail (side of a coin)

   Antonyms: hlava, panna

Declension

Declension of orel (hard masculine animate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	orel	orli, orlové
genitive	orla	orlů
dative	orlovi, orlu	orlům
accusative	orla	orly
vocative	orle	orli, orlové
locative	orlovi, orlu	orlech
instrumental	orlem	orly

Derived terms

adjectives

• orlí
• orlův

 

nouns

• orle
• orlice
• orlíče
• orlíček
• orlík

 

proverb

• neuč orla létat

 

Further reading

• “orel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “orel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “orel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Anagrams

• orle
• role

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German orgel, örgel.

Noun

orel (genitive oreli, partitive orelit)

1. (music) organ

Declension

Declension of orel (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		orel	orelid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	oreli
genitive			orelite
partitive		orelit	oreleid
illative		orelisse	orelitesse oreleisse
inessive		orelis	orelites oreleis
elative		orelist	orelitest oreleist
allative		orelile	orelitele oreleile
adessive		orelil	orelitel oreleil
ablative		orelilt	orelitelt oreleilt
translative		oreliks	oreliteks oreleiks
terminative		orelini	oreliteni
essive		orelina	orelitena
abessive		orelita	oreliteta
comitative		oreliga	orelitega

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Noun

orel m (Cyrillic spelling орел)

1. (Kajkavian) eagle (bird)

   Synonym: orao

Slovene

Orel

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orьlъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *arélis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːrəʋ/

Noun

órəł m anim

1. eagle (bird)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	ôrel
gen. sing.	ôrla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôrel	ôrla	ôrli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ôrla	ôrlov	ôrlov
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôrlu	ôrloma	ôrlom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ôrla	ôrla	ôrle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôrlu	ôrlih	ôrlih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ôrlom	ôrloma	ôrli

Further reading

• “orel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024