vole

See also: volé, volê, vøle, and воле

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn [Term?], from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), q.v. The Orkney dialectal name 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊl/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. 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

• volelike
• water vole

Translations

small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae

• Catalan: talpó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 田鼠 (zh) (tiánshǔ)

• Czech: (every genus from Arvicolinae has got its specific Czech name): hryzec (genus Arvicola), hraboš (cs) (genus Microtus), norník (cs) (genus Myodes)
• Danish: studsmus c
• Dutch: veldmuis (nl), woelmuis (nl)
• Esperanto: arvikolo
• Finnish: myyrä (fi)
• French: campagnol (fr) m
• German: Wühlmaus f
• Greek:

  Ancient: σμίνθος m (smínthos)

• Hungarian: pocok (hu)
• Irish: vól m

• Italian: arvicola (it) f
• Japanese: ハタネズミ (hatanezumi), 畑鼠 (hatanezumi)
• Navajo: łeeyiʼ bitiiní
• Persian: ول‎ (fa) (vol)
• Polish: nornica (pl) f, nornik m, polnik m
• Portuguese: rato-do-campo m
• Romanian: șoarece-de-câmp (ro) m
• Russian: полёвка (ru) f (poljóvka)
• Slovene: voluhar (sl) m, voluharji pl
• Spanish: campañol m, topillo m, rata de agua f
• Swedish: sork (sv)
• Vietnamese: chuột đồng
• West Flemish: tope f
• West Frisian: wrotmûs

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Cricetidae, but maybe not voles

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.

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} nuse e lalës
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} ekialdeko ur-arratoi
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} палеука (paljeuka)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} muenn
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} полевка (polevka)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} woelrat (nl) c
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} arvikolo
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mügri
• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} vatnrotta
• Friulian: ^{(please verify)} surîs di campagne
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} rato do campo
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} vatnastúfa

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} arvicola (it) f
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} ūdensžurka, ^{(please verify)} ūdeņu strupaste
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pelėnas
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} воден стаорец (voden staorec)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ġurdien ta’ l-ilma
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} vånd (no)
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} rat de camp
• Romansch: ^{(please verify)} mieursfuigna
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} xurtso-nivako m, ^{(please verify)} xurtsaika-nivaki f
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} topi de campagna, ^{(please verify)} sóriche de sartu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} волухарица f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} voluharica f

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} hryzec
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} tarla faresi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} полівка (polivka), ^{(please verify)} нориця (norycja)
• Upper Sorbian: ^{(please verify)} swišć
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} llygoden bengron y dwÿr

Etymology 2

French [Term?]

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. 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.

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

1. (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, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], OCLC 43265629:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading

• vole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• voll

Etymology

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

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

1. full

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlɛ/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

vole

1. vocative singular of vůl

Interjection

vole

1. (informal) man, dude

Usage notes

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

From Proto-Slavic [Term?] with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst.

Noun

vole n

1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
2. (obsolete) goitre

   Synonym: struma

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	vole	volata
genitive	volete	volat
dative	voleti	volatům
accusative	vole	volata
vocative	vole	volata
locative	voleti	volatech
instrumental	voletem	volaty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

Further reading

• vole in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vole in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adverb

vole

1. voluntarily

Derived terms

• vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

Related terms

• vola (“voluntary”)
• voli (“to want, wish”)
• volo (“volition; one's wish”)

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French

Verb

vole

1. inflection of voler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• love, lové
• vélo

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Interlingua

Verb

vole

1. present of voler
2. imperative of voler

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Italian

Verb

vole

1. (archaic) third-person singular indicative present of volere

Synonyms

• vuole

Anagrams

• levo, levò, velo, velò

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vole

1. vocative singular of vol

Verb

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

1. third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

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Volapük

Noun

vole

1. dative singular of vol