pol

Translingual

Symbol

pol

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Polish.

English

Etymology

Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.
   • 1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.

   • 2008, Frank P. Vazzano, Politician Extraordinaire, page 174:

     The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.

Anagrams

• LPO, Lop, PLO, lop

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

Etymology

From Latin polus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

pol m (plural pols)

1. pole

   el pol Sud ― the South Pole

   pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

Related terms

• polar

Further reading

• “pol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pol” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

pol

Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːl

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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔl/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pol
• 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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pol

Etymology 1

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Adjective

pol

1. (colloquial) full.

   Synonym: penuh

2. (colloquial) maximum.

   Synonym: maksimal

Alternative forms

• pul

Etymology 2

From English poll or Dutch poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

Noun

pol (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. poll, a survey of a particular group.

Etymology 3

Noun

pol (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. (nonstandard) Nonstandard form of pul.

Further reading

• “pol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pol/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pol/,

Interjection

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
   • c. 180 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?

See also

• edepol

References

• “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

pol

Wikipedia ^no

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

• nordpol
• Polhavet

References

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

pol

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

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

• nordpol
• Polhavet

Etymology 2

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Alcohol monopoly

Wikipedia

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Vinmonopolet

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

Noun

pol n (definite singular polet, indefinite plural pol, definite plural pola)

1. alcohol monopoly (a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing some or all alcoholic beverages)
   1. the institution itself (of alcohol monopoly)
   2. a retailer licensed (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

Etymology 3

Unknown. See also pole.

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, uncountable)

1. a high ball caught by hand(s) before touching the ground

   Synonyms: hys, lyr

Derived terms

• ta pol

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pol

1. present tense of pola and pole

References

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• PLO

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːl/

Noun

pōl m

1. pool

Declension

Descendants

• English: pool

Romagnol

Noun

pol m (invariable) (Bassa Romagna)

1. chicken

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

Declension

Derived terms

• polarni

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• spȏl (Croatia)

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

• pȏ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

Particle

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Croatia) half

   sat i pol ― an hour and a half

   tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophone: pool

Noun

pol c

1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically, such as the North Pole or 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

Related terms

• batteripol
• magnetpol
• nordpol
• polär
• polarcirkel
• polarexpedition
• polarforskning
• sydpol

References

• pol in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)