kraal
Sign in to savethumb|260px|An illustration of a kraal near Bulawayo in the 19th century. thumb|260px|Building an African Kraal (July 1853, X, p.78) thumb|260px|Zulu people|Zulu kraal near [[Umlazi, Natal]] Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word, also used in South African English, for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within a Southern African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form. It is similar to a boma in eastern or central Africa.
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- Etymology
- Homestead
- Zulu kraals
- Layout
- Ritual uses
- Notes
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|260px|An illustration of a kraal near Bulawayo in the 19th century. thumb|260px|Building an African Kraal (July 1853, X, p.78) thumb|260px|Zulu people|Zulu kraal near [[Umlazi, Natal]] Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word, also used in South African English, for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within a Southern African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form. It is similar to a boma in eastern or central Africa.
In Curaçao, another former Dutch colony, the enclosure was called "koraal" which means coral and which in Papiamentu is translated "kura", a word still in use today for any enclosed terrain, like a garden.
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