1. channel, conduit, trench (water passage) — A constructed water channel, conduit, or trench used for conveying water. All senses refer to the same concrete referent — an artificial water passage — with variation only in grammatical form (singular, plural, construct, with article, with prepositions). Arabic consistently uses قَناة (qanah, 'canal/conduit'), Swahili uses mfereji/mifereji ('irrigation channel'), Korean alternates between 수로 (suro, 'waterway') and 도랑 (dorang, 'trench/ditch'), Hindi uses नाली/नाला ('drain/channel'), and Spanish uses canal/zanja ('canal/trench'). These are all inflectional and prepositional variants of a single lexical meaning: an engineered water passage. 9×
AR["ال-قَناةَ","القَنَاةَ","بِـ-قَنَاةِ","بِقَنَاةِ","في-ال-قَناةِ","قَناةً","قَنَاةً","قَنَاةِ","قَنَوَاتِهَا"]·ben["খানা","খানাকে","খানায়-","তার-নালাগুলি","নালা","নালায়","নালায়-","নালার"]·DE["[בתעלת]","[תעלה]","[תעלת]","[תעלתיה]","bei-conduit-von","der-conduit","der-trench","in-der-trench","trench"]·EN["a-channel","at-conduit-of","by-the-conduit","conduit-of","in-the-trench","its-channels","the-conduit","the-trench","trench"]·FR["[בתעלת]","[תעלת]","canal","dans-le-trench","le-conduit","le-trench","trench","à-conduit-de","תעלה"]·heb["ב-תעלה","ב-תעלת","ה-תעלה","תעלה","תעלותיה","תעלת"]·HI["नालियों-अपनी","नाली","नाली-ה","नाली-पर","में-नाली-ה","में-नाले","ह-नाला"]·ID["di-parit","di-saluran-air","parit","saluran","saluran-air","saluran-air-itu","saluran-salurannya"]·IT["[בתעלת]","[תעלת]","[תעלתיה]","a-conduit-di","il-conduit","il-trincea","in-il-trincea","trincea","un-channel"]·jav["ing-kanal","kalangan","kalen","kalen-kalenipun","lan-mlebet","saluran-banyu","selokan","wonten-ing-kalangan"]·KO["그-도랑에","그-도랑을","도랑","도랑들을-그것의","수로를","수로에","수로와","수로의","에-수로에"]·PT["a-trincheira","aqueduto-de","canais-dela","canal","junto-ao-canal-do","na-trincheira","no-canal-de","o-canal","trincheira"]·RU["в-рву","водопровода","канал","потоки-её","ров","у-канала","у-канала-"]·ES["canal","canal-de","el-canal","en-canal-de","en-el-canal","en-la-zanja","la-zanja","sus-canales","zanja"]·SW["kwenye-mfereji","mfereji","mferejini","mifereji-yake","wa-mfereji"]·TR["hendek","hendekte","hendeği","kanal","kanali","kanalinda","kanallarını","kanalı-","kanalında-"]·urd["میں-نالی","نالی","نالی-میں","نالی-کے","نہروں-کو","کے-پاس-نالی","ہ-نالی"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. תְּעָלָה n.f. water-course;—ת׳ Je 30:13 +; cstr. תְּעָלַת Is 7:3 + 2 times; pl. sf. תְּעָלֹתֶיהָ Ez 31:4;— a. water-course, conducted for irrigation Ez 31:4; hence poet., channel for rain Jb 38:25. b. conduit, 2 K 18:17 = Is 36:2; Is 7:3, cf. 2 K 20:20. c. trench, 1 K 18:32, 35, 38.