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English

Etymology

Borrowing from Serbo-Croatian kolo and Slovene kolo, from Proto-Slavic *kolo (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?lo?/

Noun

kolo (plural kolos)

1. A national folk dance common in regions pertaining to South Slavic people, performed in a circle.
   • 1942: As we came to this promenade [...] we heard the throbbing of a drum that announces a kolo, a communal dance. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 660)

Translations

Anagrams

• Look, kool, look

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kóloò]

Noun

kolo

1. (anatomy) bone

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kolo, from Proto-Indo-European *k?ek?lom (“circle”), *k?ék?los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolo/

Noun

kolo n

1. bicycle, bike

   Synonyms: jízdní kolo, bicykl

2. wheel
3. (sports) round

Declension

Derived terms

• kolový
• kole?ko n
• kolob?žka f
• kolovrat m
• kolomaz
• kolem
• okolí
• soukolí

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, from Latin collum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolo/
• Hyphenation: ko?lo
• Rhymes: -olo
• Audio:

Noun

kolo (accusative singular kolon, plural koloj, accusative plural kolojn)

1. neck

Derived terms

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kolo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kol?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolo/, [?ko?lo?]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: ko?lo

Noun

kolo

1. hole
2. groove
3. notch, indentation
4. burrow, den

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolo?/, [?ko?lo?(?)]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: ko?lo

Verb

kolo

1. Indicative present connegative form of koloa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of koloa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of koloa.

Anagrams

• olko

Hausa

Noun

k?l? m (plural k?l??y?, possessed form k?lon)

1. A fixed-pitch drum, similar to the jauje.

Noun

k?l? m (possessed form k?lon)

1. (derogatory) dog (abusive way to refer to a person)

Ido

Noun

kolo (plural koli)

1. (anatomy) neck

Karao

Noun

kolo

1. trouble; disturbance

Lindu

Noun

kolo

1. tax debt

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caulis.

Noun

kolo m

1. savoy

Descendants

• German: Kohl

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch kool.

Noun

kolo

1. cabbage

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.l?/

Noun

kolo f

1. vocative singular of kola

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kolo, from Proto-Indo-European *k?ek?lom (“circle”), *k?ék?los.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôlo/
• Hyphenation: ko?lo

Noun

k?lo n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. wheel
2. kolo
3. level, phase, volume, round, stage

Declension

Related terms

• okolina
• spava?a kola

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kolo, from Proto-Indo-European *k?ek?lom (“circle”), *k?ék?los. The sense "bicycle" is probably a calque of German Rad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ló?/

Noun

kol?? n

1. wheel
2. bicycle

Inflection

Synonyms

• (bicycle): bicíkel

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kó?l?/

Noun

k??lo n

1. kolo (dance)

Inflection

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kool.

Noun

kolo

1. cabbage

Tezoatlán Mixtec

Etymology

Cf. Alcozauca Mixtec ko??ló, Chayuco Mixtec colo, Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec kolo, San Juan Colorado Mixtec colo, San Miguel el Grande Mixtec cóhló, Sinicahua Mixtec ko?lo, Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec kolo, Yosondúa Mixtec ko?lo.

Noun

kolo

1. turkey cock

References

• F. de Williams, Judith; Ojeda Morales, Gerardo; Torres Benavides, Liborio (2017) Diccionario mixteco de San Andrés Yutatío, Tezoatlán, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 49)?^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 105

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Fijian koro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.lo/

Noun

kolo

1. village

Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec

Etymology

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

Noun

kolo

1. turkey cock

Coordinate terms

• tiu?ún (“turkey hen”)

References

• Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Tu??un na? ñuu Ki?yaa xí?in na? xiyo oeste ñuu Skuíya: Mixteco del oeste de Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca?^[2] (in Mixtec and Spanish), third edition, 2014, page 8

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

kool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of cool

Usage notes

Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kool Aid.

Etymology 2

Back slang for look.

Alternative forms

• cool

Verb

kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

Anagrams

• Look, kolo, look

Cornish

Noun

kool

1. Hard mutation of gool.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?l/
• Hyphenation: kool
• Rhymes: -o?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *k?l, *k?la, from Latin caulis.

Noun

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)

1. cabbage

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kool
• ? Chinese: ??
• ? Indonesian: kol
• ? Papiamentu: kolo
• ? Sranan Tongo: kolo

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch cole, from Old Dutch *kol, *kolo, from Proto-Germanic *kul?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ol-, from *?welH- (“to burn, shine”). May originate from a neuter plurale tantum that was reanalysed as a feminine singular; compare Old Norse kol. Cognate with West Frisian koal, German Kohle, English coal, Danish kul.

Noun

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)

1. coal
2. carbon

Synonyms

• (carbon): koolstof

Derived terms

• actieve kool
• bruinkool
• houtskool
• kooldioxide
• koolmonoxide
• koolstof
• steenkool
• verkolen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kool

Anagrams

• look

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German schôle.

Noun

kool (genitive kooli, partitive kooli)

1. school

Declension

Compounds

• ülikool
• koolivorm

Yucatec Maya

Verb

kóol (transitive)

1. to drag; to pull
2. to divide, to separate

Synonyms

• (drag, pull): hiil, páay, híits?
• (divide, separate): haats, huuts?

Derived terms

• kóol keep (“masturbate”)

Verb

kool (transitive)

1. to touch, to rub

Noun

kool (plural koolo?ob)

1. field