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pol

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Translingual

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Symbol

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pol

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

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English

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Etymology

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Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pol (plural pols)

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

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Asturian

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Etymology

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

Contraction

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

  1. for the, by the

Catalan

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Etymology

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From Latin polus.

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Noun

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pol m (plural pols)

  1. pole
    el pol Sudthe South Pole
    pol magnèticmagnetic pole
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Danish

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Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

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Noun

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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

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: pol

Extremaduran

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Preposition

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pol

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

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔl]
  • Hyphenation: pol

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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pol

  1. (colloquial) full.
    Synonym: penuh
  2. (colloquial) maximum.
    Synonym: maksimal
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Etymology 2

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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

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pol

  1. poll, a survey of a particular group.

Etymology 3

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Noun

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pol

  1. (nonstandard) Nonstandard form of pul.

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Irish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

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

Declension

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Declension of pol (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative pol poil
vocative a phoil a phola
genitive poil pol
dative pol poil
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an pol na poil
genitive an phoil na bpol
dative leis an bpol
don phol
leis na poil

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of pol
radical lenition eclipsis
pol phol bpol

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Interjection

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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?

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References

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  • 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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Noun

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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.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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.
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Etymology 2

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

Noun

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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

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Unknown.[1] See also pole.

Noun

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pol m (definite singular polen, uncountable)

  1. a high ball caught by hand(s) before touching the ground
    Synonyms: hys, lyr
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Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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pol

  1. present tense of pola and pole

References

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  1. ^ “pol” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

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Old English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pōl m

  1. pool

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

Descendants

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Old Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Polish płeć.

Noun

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pol f

  1. gender

Further reading

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  • Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “pol”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Romagnol

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Noun

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pol m (invariable) (Bassa Romagna)

  1. chicken

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

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Noun

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pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
  2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
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Etymology 3

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From pȍla.

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Particle

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pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

  1. (Croatia) half
    sat i polan hour and a half
    tri i pol mjesecathree and a half months

Swedish

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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.

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