English

Proper noun

Pal

1. A language of Papua New Guinea.

Translations

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pal

1. (informal, slang) Palestine.

Noun

Pal ‎(plural Pals)

1. (informal, slang) Palestinian.

   Saeb Erekat, who negotiates for Palestine, is one of the most famous Pals in the world.

Anagrams

• alp, ALP
• APL
• lap
• LPA
• PLA

English

Noun

pal ‎(plural pals)

1. (colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber, someone to hang around with.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:friend

Derived terms

• galpal
• penpal

Verb

pal ‎(third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

   John plans to pal around with Joe today.

Related terms

• palsy-walsy

Anagrams

• alp, ALP
• APL
• lap
• LPA
• PLA

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition pa ‎(“for”) + masculine singular article el ‎(“the”).

Contraction

pal m

1. for the

Cahuilla

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Katherine Siva Sauvel, ‎Pamela Munro, Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla) (1982)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Provençal pal, from Latin pālus ‎(“stake, pole”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal m ‎(plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole

Related terms

• empalar

See also

• bastó

Cupeño

Etymology

Cognate with Cahuilla pál, Luiseño paala, Tübatulabal bal, Northern Paiute paa, Comanche paa, Hopi paahu, Classical Nahuatl atl.

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Jane H. Hill, A Grammar of Cupeño (2005)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɑl

Etymology

From Middle French pal, from Latin pālus. Cognate with paal.

Noun

pal m ‎(plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

1. catch (mechanism which stops something from moving the wrong way)

Adverb

pal

1. firm, firmly
2. (with a preposition or adverb) right, immediately

Anagrams

• lap

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin pālus ‎(“stake, pole”). Compare the inherited doublet pieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Noun

pal m ‎(plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

Kurdish

Noun

pal ?

1. side

Lojban

Rafsi

pal

1. rafsi of prali.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Participle

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

Old English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin pālus ‎(“stake”), possibly through a late Proto-Germanic intermediate. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal).

Pronunciation

Noun

pāl m

1. stake

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: pole, pal
  • English: pole

Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

Relational

-pal

1. of (genitive relation, also forms genitive pronouns)

   Ne pelu ipal ne takat‎

   The dog of the man → The man's dog.

   Ashan ini kal mupal‎

   Now this house is yours

2. for (benefactive relation)

   Tikpiat se mupal wan se nupal‎

   We have one for you and one for me

Declension

Usage notes

• The relational noun -pal is part of a restricted group of relationals that can be used without a possessive marker when it accompanies an explicit complement, thus acting like a preposition:

  Ne pelu pal ne takat‎

  The dog of the man → The man's dog.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin pālus ‎(“stake”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pal m inan

1. stake (piece of wood)
2. pile (for the support of a building)

Declension

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of palić

Spanish

Contraction

pal

1. (colloquial) contraction of para ‎(“for”) + el ‎(“the”)

Related terms

• pa, pa'

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Noun

pal ‎(plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother

Declension

Hyponyms

• hipal ‎(“male parent, father”)
• fat ‎(“father”)
• jipal ‎(“female parent, mother”)
• mot ‎(“mother”)

Derived terms

• lepal ‎(“grandparent”)
• palalöf ‎(“parentship”)
• palapär
• palef
• palik ‎(“parental”)
• lepal ‎(“grandparent”)
• dalepal ‎(“great-grandparent”)

See also

• lefat ‎(“grandfather”)
• lemot ‎(“grandmother”)
• dalefat ‎(“great-grandfather”)
• dalemot ‎(“great-grandmother”)
• röletan ‎(“a relative, a relation”)