Catalan

Proper noun

Pol m

1. A male given name cognate to English Paul

Related terms

• Pau

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Short form of Leopold, Apollonius, Napoleon, and also a modern variant of Paul.

Proper noun

Pol ?

1. A male given name.

German

Etymology

From Ancient Greek via Latin polus

Pronunciation

Noun

Pol m ‎(genitive Poles or Pols, plural Pole)

1. pole (geographical, electrical, magnetical)

Declension

Derived terms

• Kältepol
• Nordpol
• Polstelle
• Südpol
• Wärmepol

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος ‎(pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːl/
• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

Pol m ‎(plural Polen)

1. (geography, electricity, magnets) pole

Derived terms

• Dipol
• Himmelspol
• Nordpol
• Südpol

Old French

Etymology

From Latin Paulus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔl/

Proper noun

Pol m ‎(nominative singular Poz)

1. A male given name, cognate to Paul in Modern English

Descendants

• French: Paul

English

Noun

pol ‎(plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.

Anagrams

• lop
• PLO

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

Noun

pol m, f ‎(plural pols)

1. pole

   el pol Sud‎ ― the South Pole

   pol magnètic‎ ― magnetic pole

Danish

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

Pronunciation

• 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

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. (magnetism, electricity, geography) pole

Declension

Derived terms

• aonpholach
• fopholach
• polach
• Pol Thuaidh

Mutation

Latin

Interjection

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 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, 1883–1887)
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

Lojban

Rafsi

pol

1. rafsi of polno.

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

References

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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

References

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

pōl m

1. pool

Declension

Descendants

• English: pool

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

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. half

   sat i po(l)‎ ― an hour and a half

   tri i po m(j)eseca‎ ― three and a half months

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

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