pol

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pol"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Polish or Polish polski.

Symbol

pol

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Polish terms

English

Etymology

Clipping of politician.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.
   • 1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times‎, →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.

Anagrams

• PLO, Lop, OLP, lop, LPO

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

Etymology

From Latin polus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔl]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

pol m (plural pols)

1. pole

   el pol Sud ― the South Pole

   pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

Related terms

• polar

Further reading

• “pol”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pol” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

pol

Wikipedia ^da

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːl

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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pol
• 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

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pol

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

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]
• Hyphenation: pol

Etymology 1

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Adjective

pol (comparative lebih pol, superlative paling pol)

1. (colloquial) full

   Synonym: penuh

2. (colloquial) maximum

   Synonym: maksimal

Alternative forms

• pul

Etymology 2

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

pol (plural pol-pol)

1. poll, a survey of a particular group

Etymology 3

Noun

pol (plural pol-pol)

1. nonstandard form of pul

Further reading

• “pol”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

Declension of pol (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative pol poil vocative a phoil a phola genitive poil pol dative pol poil forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an pol na poil genitive an phoil na bpol dative leis an bpol don phol leis na poil

Derived terms

• An Pol Thuaidh (“the North Pole”)
• aonpholach (“unipolar”, adjective)
• fopholach (“subpolar”, adjective)
• pol ainmhíoch (“animal pole”)
• pol cothaitheach (“vegetal pole”)
• pol deimhneach (“positive pole”)
• pol diúltach (“negative pole”)
• polach (“polar”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pol

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pol	phol	bpol

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

Clipping of Pollux.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]

Interjection

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 2.2.8–9:

     [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
• herclē̆

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, 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

pol

Wikipedia ^no

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
• Polhavet

References

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.