English

Noun

pall ‎(plural palls)

1. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif Bible (Esther viii. 15) to this entry?)

2. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
3. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
4. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
   • Fuller

     About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.

5. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
6. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:

     Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

7. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
   • Shakespeare

     His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.

8. (obsolete) nausea

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9. A feeling of gloom.

   A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.

   The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.

Derived terms

• cast a pall
• pallbearer
• tarpaulin

Synonyms

• (heraldry): pairle

Translations

Verb

pall ‎(third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. To cloak.

   Lady Macbeth: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of **** (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).

Etymology 2

Aphetism from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.

Verb

pall ‎(third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
   • Atterbury

     Reason and reflection […] pall all his enjoyments.

2. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

   The liquor palls.

   • Addison

     Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *palei-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- 'to speak with a loud voice'. Cognate to Gothic spillon ‎(spillon, “to proclaim”)^[1].

Verb

pall ‎(first-person singular past tense palla, participle pallë/pallur)

1. To cry, hee-haw.

Related terms

• pa
• shpall
• fjalë

References

1. ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.365

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˈɑlʲː/

Noun

pall ‎(genitive palli, partitive palli)

1. (sports) ball

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• jalgpall

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pallr

Noun

pall m ‎(definite singular pallen, indefinite plural paller, definite plural pallene)

1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

References

• “pall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pallr

Noun

pall m ‎(definite singular pallen, indefinite plural pallar, definite plural pallane)

1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

References

• “pall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

pall[4] = pawl (2)

Pronunciation

Noun

pall c

1. a stool; a chair without armrests or a back
2. (sports) a podium for prize ceremonies
3. a pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts
4. a pawl (a pin in a ratchet gear)

   att stå pall

   to cope, to stand against pressure

5. (dated, slang) an apple

Declension

Derived terms

• fotpall
• lastpall
• mjölkpall
• palla
• pallbrytning
• palldragare
• pallning
• pallplacering
• pallplats
• pallvagn
• prispall
• stå pall

References

• pall in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Welsh

Noun

pall m (plural pallon)

1. tent

Synonyms

• lluest
• lluesty
• pabell