vole
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vole (plural voles)
- Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.
Derived terms edit
- Amargosa vole
- bank vole
- beach vole
- Brandt's vole
- Buchanan vole
- California vole
- Clarke's vole
- common vole
- creeping vole
- East European vole
- Evorsk vole
- field vole
- flat-headed vole
- Gull Island vole
- heather vole
- lacustrine vole
- Lake Baikal vole
- large-eared vole
- lemming vole
- long-tailed vole
- mandarin vole
- Marie's vole
- Maximowicz's vole
- meadow vole
- Mexican vole
- Middendorff's vole
- mogollon vole
- mole vole
- Mongolian vole
- montane vole
- mountain vole
- Muisk vole
- Murree vole
- Muskeget vole
- Muya Valley vole
- narrow-headed vole
- Nasarov's vole
- north Siberian vole
- Olkhon Mountain vole
- Oregon vole
- Orkney vole
- paradox vole
- Pere David's vole
- Persian vole
- pine vole
- plateau vole
- prairie vole
- red-backed vole
- redback vole
- reed vole
- Richardson's vole
- rock vole
- root vole
- royal vole
- sagebrush vole
- Schidlovsky's vole
- Shansei vole
- Shikotan vole
- sibling vole
- singing vole
- Smith's vole
- snow vole
- southern vole
- steppe vole
- Szechuan vole
- taiga vole
- Tien Shan vole
- Townsend's vole
- tree vole
- tundra vole
- Tyrrhenian vole
- volelike
- water vole
- white-footed vole
- woodland vole
- yellow vole
Translations edit
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Note: There is a systematic error in the entries below. "Vole" refers to hundreds of small rodent species living in all kinds of habitats. Many, but probably not all, of the translations refer to the "water vole", which is just one of the many species. When translating "vole" into other languages, one should look for words that refer to the voles as a group. Further details can be found on the Wikipedia articles on vole and on many of the species.
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
vole (plural voles)
- A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:
- Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:
- With humble curate can I now retire,
(While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
And at backgammon mortify my soul,
That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?
Verb edit
vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)
- (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:
- no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
Alemannic German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.
Adjective edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
vole m
Interjection edit
vole
Usage notes edit
This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voľe with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst.[1][2]
Noun edit
vole n
- crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
- (obsolete) goitre
- Synonym: struma
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
vole
References edit
- ^ "vole" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
- ^ Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia
Further reading edit
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adverb edit
vole
Derived terms edit
- vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)
Related terms edit
French edit
Verb edit
vole
- inflection of voler:
Anagrams edit
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vole
- to fly
Interlingua edit
Verb edit
vole
- present of voler
- imperative of voler
Italian edit
Verb edit
vole
Synonyms edit
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Romanian edit
Noun edit
vole n (plural voleuri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) vole | voleul | (niște) voleuri | voleurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) vole | voleului | (unor) voleuri | voleurilor |
vocative | voleule | voleurilor |
References edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
vole
Verb edit
vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vole (definite accusative voleyi, plural voleler)
- (sports) A volley kick in association football.
- (sports) A shot in tennis before the ball hits the ground.
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | vole | |
Definite accusative | voleyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | vole | voleler |
Definite accusative | voleyi | voleleri |
Dative | voleye | volelere |
Locative | volede | volelerde |
Ablative | voleden | volelerden |
Genitive | volenin | volelerin |
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vole”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “vole”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vole”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5130
Volapük edit
Noun edit
vole
Yola edit
Verb edit
vole
- Alternative form of vall
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 76