pol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

English

Etymology

Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• IPA^(key): /pɒl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.
   • 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

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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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin polus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔl]
• 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.

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Danish

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.

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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

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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

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]
• 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 of Indonesia, 2016.

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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. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

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

• An Pol Thuaidh (“the North Pole”)
• aonpholach (“unipolar”, adjective)
• fopholach (“subpolar”, adjective)
• pol ainmhíoch (“animal pole”)
• pol cothaitheach (“vegetal pole”)
• pol deimhneach (“positive pole”)
• pol diúltach (“negative pole”)
• polach (“polar”, adjective)

 

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.

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pɔɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pɔl]

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

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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

• nordpol
• Polhavet

References

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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

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 licenced (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

Etymology 3

Of unknown origin. 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

1. present tense of pola and pole

References

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• PLO

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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

Declension of pol (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pōl	pōlas
accusative	pōl	pōlas
genitive	pōles	pōla
dative	pōle	pōlum

Descendants

• English: pool

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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

Declension of pol

	singular	plural
nominative	pȏl	pólovi
genitive	pola	pólōvā
dative	polu	polovima
accusative	pol	polove
vocative	pole	polovi
locative	polu	polovima
instrumental	polom	polovima

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

Declension of pol

	singular	plural
nominative	pol	polovi
genitive	pola	polova
dative	polu	polovima
accusative	pol	polove
vocative	pole	polovi
locative	polu	polovima
instrumental	polom	polovima

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

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

• audio:

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• Homophone: pool

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

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

Related terms

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