English

Noun

Qual ‎(plural Quals)

1. Alternative letter-case form of qual

German

Etymology

From Old High German quāla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvaːl/, /kwaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

Qual f ‎(genitive Qual, plural Qualen)

1. agony

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• Qual

Noun

qual ‎(plural quals)

1. (usually in the plural) Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
   • 2000, Stephen Cannell, The Devil's Workshop: A Novel, HarperCollins (2000), page 12,

     He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals.

   • 2004, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, John Wiley & Sons (2004), page 30.

     To be a theorist, you also had to pass a special theory section on the quals.

Quotations

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:qual.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin quālis.

Pronoun

qual ‎(relative, plural quals)

1. which

   És un cop del qual no es va recuperar.

   It's a blow from which he is not going to recover.)

Interlingua

Adverb

qual ‎(not comparable)

1. what (such)

Determiner

qual

1. (relative) which

   Le doctrina de Jamblicho super le anima es sin dubita inspirate per le Timeo de Platon, in qual texto le autor depinge le anima como le mediation inter lo intelligibile indivisibile – le idea – e lo sensibile divisibile e multiple.

   Iamblichus' doctrine about the soul is without a doubt inspired by Plato's Timaeus, in which text the author depicts the soul as the mediation between the indivisible intelligible — the idea — and the divisible and multiple sensory.

Pronoun

qual

1. (interrogative) what

   Qual es le instrumento del anima per rationalisar lo sensibile, multiple e cambiante?

   What is the soul's instrument to perceive by reason the sensory, multiple, and variable?

2. (relative) which

   Secundo Jamblicho, le mathematica es le medio per qual le anima da unitate a lo diverse e es capabile de rationalisar le ordine de lo sensibile.

   According to Iamblichus, mathematics is the medium by which the soul gives unity to the diverse and is capable of perceiving by reason the order of the sensory.

Italian

Noun

qual m and f

1. apocopic form of quale
   • Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I:

     Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura
     esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
     che nel pensier rinova la paura!

     Ah, how rueful to say what sort it was
     this wilderness wild and harsh and daunting
     that in my thoughts makes my fright alive again

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese qual, from Latin quālis ‎(“what”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkwaw/

Pronoun

qual ‎(plural quais)

1. which (what one)

   Qual é maior?‎

   Which is bigger?

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:qual.

Derived terms

• cada qual
• qual é?
• o qual
• tal qual

Related terms

• qualidade
• qualificar
• qualquer

Spanish

Pronoun

qual ‎(relative, plural quales)

1. Obsolete spelling of cual