different between acquaintance vs pal

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, Old French acointance (“friendship, familiarity”), from Old French acointer (“to acquaint”). Compare French accointance.

Morphologically acquaint +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kwe?nt?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??kwe?n.t?ns/

Noun

acquaintance (countable and uncountable, plural acquaintances)

1. (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship. [from 12th c.]

   I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.

   • 1799, William Jones (translator), Hito'pade'sa, in The Works, Volume 6, page 22:

     Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.

2. (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [from 14th c.]
3. (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord). [from 15th c.]
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 230:

     Their mother […] was busy in the mean time in keeping up her connections, as she termed a numerous acquaintance, lest her girls should want a proper introduction into the great world.

4. Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.). [from 16th c.]

Usage notes

• Synonym notes: The words acquaintance, familiarity, and intimacy now mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse or interaction; as, "our acquaintance has been a brief one". We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, "the familiarity of old companions". Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, "the intimacy of established friendship".

Synonyms

• familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge
• See also Thesaurus:acquaintance

Derived terms

• nodding acquaintance
• renew acquaintances

Related terms

• acquaint

Translations

References

• acquaintance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• acquaintance at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Angloromani pal (“brother, friend”), from Romani phral (“brother”), from Sanskrit ?????? (bhr?t?, “brother”). Doublet of brother and frater.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pal/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

pal (plural pals)

1. (colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.

   Little Timmy's out playing with his pals.

2. (colloquial) An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way.

   Don't you threaten me, pal – I'll report you to the police.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:friend

Translations

Derived terms

Verb

pal (third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

Related terms

Anagrams

• ALP, APL, LPA, PLA, Pla, alp, lap

Angloromani

Alternative forms

• palla, pel, pral, prala, pralla, pulu

Etymology

From Romani phral, from Sanskrit ?????? (bhr??t?), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *b?ráHt?, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *b?ráHt?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r. Cognate with English brother.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?æl], [p?æ?]

Noun

pal

1. brother

2. friend

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: pal

References

• “pal” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.
• “pal” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition pa (“for”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

pal m

1. for the

Cahuilla

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Katherine Siva Sauvel; Pamela Munro (1983) Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pal, from Latin p?lus (“stake, pole”), from Proto-Italic *p?kslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-slos, from *peh??-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pal/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale
4. (colloquial) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related terms

See also

Cupeño

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Cahuilla pál, Luiseño paala, Tübatulabal bal, Northern Paiute paa, Comanche paa, Hopi paahu, Classical Nahuatl atl.

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Jane H. Hill (2005) A Grammar of Cupeño

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pal]
• Rhymes: -al

Interjection

pal!

1. fire! (a signal to shoot)

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pálit

Further reading

• pal in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pal in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French pal, from Latin p?lus. Cognate with paal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

pal m (plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

1. catch (mechanism which stops something from moving the wrong way)

Adverb

pal

1. firm, firmly
2. (with a preposition or adverb) right, immediately

Anagrams

• lap

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?lus (“stake, pole”). Compare the inherited doublet pieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

References

• “pal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Postposition

pal

1. (follows genitive case -ni) because, on account of

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pal]
• Hyphenation: pal

Etymology 1

From Dutch paal (“pole”), from Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch p?l, from Latin p?lus. See Dutch mijlpaal (“milestone”).

Noun

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

1. milestone, one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of faal.

Further reading

• “pal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Participle

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pali?

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal ?

1. side

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. post, pole, stake
2. (nautical) mast

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?lus (“stake”), possibly through a late Proto-Germanic intermediate. Compare Old High German pf?l (German Pfahl), Old Dutch p?l (Dutch paal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??l/

Noun

p?l m

1. stake

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: pole, pal
  • English: pole

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from either Old Dutch p?l or Old High German p?l, from Proto-West Germanic *p?laz, from Latin p?lus (“stake, prop”), from Proto-Italic *p?kslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (“to attach”). Cognate to Old English p?l. Doublet of p?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?l/

Noun

p?l f

1. pole

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

Relational

-pal

1. of (genitive relation, also forms genitive pronouns)

2. for (benefactive relation)

Declension

Usage notes

• The relational noun -pal is part of a restricted group of relationals that can be used without a possessive marker when it accompanies an explicit complement, thus acting like a preposition:

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Etymology 1

From Latin p?lus (“stake”).

Noun

pal m inan

1. stake (piece of wood)
2. pile (for the support of a building)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pali?

Further reading

• pal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French pâle.

Adjective

pal m or n (feminine singular pal?, masculine plural pali, feminine and neuter plural pale)

1. pale

Declension

Spanish

Contraction

pal

1. (colloquial) contraction of para (“for”) + el (“the”)

Related terms

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Noun

pal (nominative plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother
2. Hyponyms: fat, hipal, jipal, mot

Declension

Derived terms

See also