appel - Wikiwand

See also: Appel, appèl, and Äppel

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/, /ɑˈpɛl/
Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

Noun

appel (plural appels)

(fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

Hypernyms

(fencing): feint

Translations

fencing movement

Finnish: apelli

Verb

appel (third-person singular simple present appels, present participle appelling, simple past and past participle appelled)

Obsolete spelling of appeal.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

appel (plural appels)

Obsolete spelling of apple.

Anagrams

Apple, apple, pepla

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch appel, from Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch *appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa.pəl/
Audio: (file)

Noun

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

apple

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Xhosa: i-apile

Dutch

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appel

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.pəl/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: ap‧pel
Rhymes: -ɑpəl
Homophone: Appel

Noun

appel m (plural appels or appelen, diminutive appeltje n)

apple (Malus domestica, fruit or tree)
Synonym: ijsappel (Suriname)
(Suriname) wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)
Synonym: djamboe semarang

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: appel
- → Xhosa: i-apile
Berbice Creole Dutch: apl
Jersey Dutch: āpel
Negerhollands: apl
>? Sranan Tongo: apra
- → Caribbean Hindustani: aprá
- → Caribbean Javanese: aprah
- → Kari'na: apara
- → Lokono: apra
→ Loup A: abel
→ Mahican: ápenes (from the plural form)
→ Malay: apel (Indonesian)

Indonesian: apêl

→? Mohegan-Pequot: appece
→ Munsee: áapulash (from the plural form)
→ Papiamentu: apel, appel
→ Unami: apëlìsh (from the plural form)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɛl/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: ap‧pel
Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

appeal (act of imploring or exhorting; a discourse wherein this is done)
Christen Democratisch Appèl — Christian Democratic Appeal (the name of a Dutch political party: old spelling with the accent on the -e-)
(law) appeal (application for legal review and overturning)
Synonym: beroep
(military) roll call (muster of troops at which names are read out, to see if all are present)