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pol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

Translingual

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pol

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

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of politician

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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.

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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”).

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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 Sud ― the South Pole
    pol magnètic ― magnetic pole
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Danish

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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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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 (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

  1. poll, a survey of a particular group.

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Noun

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pol (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

  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

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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

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Mutation

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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.

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Latin

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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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  • “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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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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Etymology 1

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

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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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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

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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

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

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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).

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pōl m

  1. pool

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Declension of pol (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative pōl pōlas
accusative pōl pōlas
genitive pōles pōla
dative pōle pōlum

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  • English: pool

Romagnol

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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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pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

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

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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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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
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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 pol ― an hour and a half
    tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

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