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Pol

Pol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

Catalan

Proper noun

Pol m

  1. A male given name cognate to English Paul

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Short form of Leopold, Apollonius, Napoleon, and also a modern variant of Paul.

Proper noun

Pol ?

  1. A male given name.

German

Etymology

From Ancient Greek via Latin polus

Pronunciation

Noun

Pol m (genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole)

  1. pole (geographical, electrical, magnetical)

Declension

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poːl/
  • Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

Pol m (plural Polen)

  1. (geography, electricity, magnets) pole

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin Paulus

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔl/

Proper noun

Pol m (nominative singular Poz)

  1. A male given name, cognate to Paul in Modern English

Descendants

pol

pol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

English

Noun

pol (plural pols)

  1. (informal) A politician.

Anagrams


Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (for, by) + masculine singular article el (the).

Contraction

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

  1. for the, by the

Catalan

Noun

pol m, f (plural pols)

  1. pole
    el pol Sud ― the South Pole
    pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

Danish

Noun

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

  1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
  2. (Belgium) a hand

Derived terms

  • graspol

Extremaduran

Preposition

pol

  1. by
    Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.
    This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.
  2. through
  3. for

Irish

Etymology

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, axis of rotation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pˠɔlˠ]

Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

  1. (magnetism, electricity, geography) pole

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pol phol bpol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Latin

Interjection

pol

  1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
    • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Casina
      Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?
      Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

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References


Lojban

Rafsi

pol

  1. rafsi of polno.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

  1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
  2. a pole in geometry.
  3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

References


Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

Pronunciation

Noun

pōl m

  1. pool

Declension

Descendants


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pôːl/

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pôːl/

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
  2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
Declension
Derived terms
  • polni

Etymology 3

From pȍla.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pôːl/

Particle

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. half
    sat i po(l) ― an hour and a half
    tri i po m(j)eseca ― three and a half months

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pol c

  1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
  2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
  3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

Declension

Inflection of pol 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pol polen poler polerna
Genitive pols polens polers polernas

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