coral

Etymology
From (🇨🇬), from, from. Probably ultimately of origin, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, originally referring to the red variety found in the Mediterranean. Since ancient times, a common folk etymology, accepted by some earlier scholars, connected the word instead to (referring to Medusa). Beekes mentions both theories and considers the Semitic one convincing.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of many species of marine invertebrates in the class, most of which build hard calcium carbonate skeletons and form colonies, or a colony belonging to one of those species.
 * 2)  A hard substance made of the skeletons of these organisms.
 * 3)  A somewhat yellowish orange-pink colour; the colour of red coral  of the Mediterranean Sea, commonly used as an ornament or gem.
 * 4) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
 * 5)  A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
 * 1) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
 * 2)  A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَرْجَان
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: koral
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: koralo
 * Estonian: korall
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κοράλλιον
 * Hawaiian: koʻa, ʻākoʻakoʻa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मूंगा, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: مەرجان
 * Latvian: korallis
 * Lithuanian: koralas
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: qroll
 * Maori: kāoa
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: مرجان
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: matumbawe, marijani
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: קאָראַל


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَرْجَان
 * Egyptian Arabic: مرجان
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Assamese: পোৱাল
 * Azerbaijani: mərcan
 * Bashkir: мәрйен
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: koural
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 珊瑚
 * Eastern Min: 珊瑚
 * Hakka: 珊瑚
 * Hokkien: 珊瑚
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 珊瑚
 * Czech:
 * Danish: koral
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: koralo
 * Estonian: korall
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κοράλλιον
 * Hawaiian: puna
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मूंगा, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: шур
 * Kannada:
 * Karakalpak: marjan
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:, ផ្កាថ្ម
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, маржан
 * Lao: ປະກາລັງ, ປະກາຣັງ
 * Latin: corallium
 * Latvian: korallis
 * Lithuanian: koralas
 * Macedonian: корал
 * Malagasy: haran-dranomasina
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: kutakuta
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: tóchʼil yooʼí
 * Nogai: маржан
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: korall
 * Occitan:
 * Okinawan: 珊瑚
 * Ottoman Turkish: مرجان
 * Pashto: مرجان
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, koralowina
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: корал
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: කොරල්
 * Slovak: koral
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: marijani
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sagay
 * Tajik: марҷон
 * Tamil:
 * Tarifit: tadmant
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བྱུ་རུ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: mercen
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مرجان, مونگا
 * Uyghur: مارجان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (珊瑚)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָראַל


 * Catalan:  ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 珊瑚色
 * Czech: korálová
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: sügavroosa
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მარჯნისფერი
 * German: koralle
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: koralų spalva
 * Malay:
 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:

Adjective

 * 1) Made of coral.
 * 2) Having the orange-pink colour of coral.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: коралов
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 珊瑚製的
 * Dutch: koraal-
 * Esperanto: korala
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მარჯნის
 * Hindi: मूंगा, ,
 * Italian: corallino, corallina
 * Japanese: 珊瑚でできた, 珊瑚製の
 * Lithuanian: koralų, koralinis
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: qrolli
 * Odia: or
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: coralino
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 珊瑚色的, 橘紅色的
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: მარჯნისფერი
 * Japanese: 珊瑚色の
 * Lithuanian: koralų spalvos
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, coralino
 * Romanian: ,

Derived terms

 * ( et al.)
 * bamboo coral
 * black coral ( spp.)
 * ,  (in families  and )
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * († spp.)
 * coral bean
 * /coralberry
 * coral fern
 * coral fungus
 * coral insect
 * (in family )
 * (genus )
 * coral trout
 * coral bells
 * /coralize
 * (, spp.)
 * dusty coral
 * fan coral ( et al. spp.)
 * favid coral ( spp.)
 * († or † spp.)
 * fire coral ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * († et al. spp.)
 * horn coral († spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * hydrocoral, ( and  spp.)
 * ivory bush coral
 * ( spp.)
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 * ( spp.)
 * old coral
 * , ( spp.)
 * pink coral
 * precious coral (= red coral)
 * purple coral
 * red coral ( et al.)
 * sea whip coral ( spp.)
 * seed coral
 * soft coral ( spp.)
 * ( et al. spp.)
 * stone coral, ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
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 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * whip coral ( spp.)
 * fire coral ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * († et al. spp.)
 * horn coral († spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * hydrocoral, ( and  spp.)
 * ivory bush coral
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * old coral
 * , ( spp.)
 * pink coral
 * precious coral (= red coral)
 * purple coral
 * red coral ( et al.)
 * sea whip coral ( spp.)
 * seed coral
 * soft coral ( spp.)
 * ( et al. spp.)
 * stone coral, ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * whip coral ( spp.)
 * seed coral
 * soft coral ( spp.)
 * ( et al. spp.)
 * stone coral, ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
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 * whip coral ( spp.)
 * ( spp.)
 * whip coral ( spp.)
 * whip coral ( spp.)
 * whip coral ( spp.)

Etymology 1
From, from a derivative of with a group suffix -al. .

Noun
or corales


 * 1) heart

Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish coral.

Noun

 * 1) chorus music
 * 2) chorale

Etymology 3
Borrowed from Spanish coral.

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) strong, close (relationship)

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1) choral

Noun

 * 1) chorus music
 * 2) chorale

Etymology 3
, from.

Noun

 * 1)  organism

Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  color
 * 2) roe the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans
 * 3) sea fan
 * 1) roe the eggs or ovaries of certain crustaceans
 * 2) sea fan
 * 1) sea fan

Etymology 2
.

Adjective

 * 1) choral

Noun

 * 1) chorale

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from.

Etymology 1
..

Noun

 * 1)  choir ensemble of people who sing together
 * 2)  choral song song written for a choir to perform
 * 3)  chorale a Lutheran hymn
 * 4)  a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together
 * 1)  a group of people, creatures or objects making noise together

Adjective

 * 1)  choral relating to choirs
 * 2)  choral written to be performed by a choir

Etymology 2
From or, from , of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1)  any of various species of anthozoans
 * 2)  the skeleton of marine polyps
 * 3)  colony of marine polyps
 * 4)  a yellowish pink colour

Adjective

 * 1)  in colour

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) choral

Etymology 1
, from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  coral vine
 * 1)  coral vine

Adjective

 * 1)  color

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1) choral

Noun

 * 1) chorale