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English

Etymology

Italian

Noun

paolo (plural paoli)

1. An old Italian silver coin.

Anagrams

• polao

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Etymology 1

From Balti ????? (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan ????? (po lo), ?????? (pho long), ?????? (spo lo, “ball”).

Noun

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. The ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

Noun

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• polo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

Contraction

polo n (masculine pol, feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Etymology 1

From English polo shirt.

Noun

polo

1. a polo shirt

Etymology 2

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo

1. a ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo

1. a dress shirt

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?polo]

Etymology 1

Adverb

polo

1. half

Etymology 2

Noun

polo n

1. polo (a ball game played on horseback)

   Synonym: pólo

Further reading

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

Danish

Noun

polo

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

   Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

Further reading

• “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -olo

Noun

polo (accusative singular polon, plural poloj, accusative plural polojn)

1. a Pole (person from Poland)

Hypernyms

• e?ropano (“a European”)

Related terms

• pola (“Polish”)
• pole (“in Polish; like a Pole”)
• Polio, Pollando (“Poland”)

Finnish

(index po)

Etymology

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

polo

1. poor (one to be pitied)

   poikapolo

   poor boy

Declension

Synonyms

• poloinen

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, ?ISBN

French

Pronunciation

Noun

polo m

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology 1

Contraction of preposition por (“through, by, for”) + alternative form of the masculine singular definite article lo (“the”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?l?]

Contraction

polo (feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. through the; by the; for the

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:

     Iten o par dos polos et polas, seis blanquas et dous coroados.

     Item, the pair of chickens and chicks, six white coins and a crown

   Synonyms: pito, pitiño

Related terms

• pola

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pol?]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

References

• “polo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “polo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “polo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “polo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English pole, French pôle, German Pol, Italian polo, Russian ?????? (póljus), Spanish polo, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po.lo/

Noun

polo (plural poli)

1. pole (point where an axis meets the surface of a rotating body)

Derived terms

• polala
• polara

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.lo/
• Rhymes: -?lo

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (countable) pole (geographic, electrical or magnetic)

Related terms

• polare

See also

• pollo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (uncountable) polo (sport)

Related terms

• polistico

References

Latin

Noun

pol?

1. dative singular of polus
2. ablative singular of polus

References

• polo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Noun

polo m (invariable)

1. polo

Related terms

• ?denspolo

Lower Sorbian

Noun

polo n (diminutive polack)

1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vannpolo

References

• “polo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti ????? (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vasspolo

References

• “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus (“pole”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole (geographic, magnetic)
2. (complex analysis) pole
3. (figuratively) extreme opposite

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti ????? (pulu, “ball”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt, polo

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Doublet of polho, which came from Spanish.

Alternative forms

• pôlo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. eyas

Related terms

• poleiro

Etymology 4

From Old Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• Homophone: pulo

Contraction

polo m (plural polos, feminine pola, feminine plural polas)

1. (obsolete) Contraction of por (“by; through; for”) + o (“the”)

   Synonym: pelo

Ramoaaina

Noun

polo

1. liquid

Further reading

• Robyn Davies and Lisbeth Fritzell, Duke of York Grammar Essentials (Ramoaaina) (October 1992)

Romanian

Etymology

From French polo.

Noun

polo n (uncountable)

1. polo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polo/, [?po.lo]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Derived terms

Related terms

• polar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (uncountable)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

Derived terms

• polo acuático
• waterpolo

Etymology 3

Originally a trademark.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly

   Synonym: paleta

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

polo

1. (Obsolete spelling of pulo) First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of polir.

Further reading

• “polo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology 1

See main entry.

Noun

polo

1. Obsolete form of pulo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?lo
• IPA^(key): /?polo/

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)
2. polo shirt
   • 1981, Clodualdo Del Mundo, Writing for Film

     Maraming reklamo si Arni tungkol sa initiation; sisisihin pa nito si Sid dahil ito ang pumilit sa kanyang sumali sa frat. Magsusuot ng polo si Arni. Halos hindi niya maigalaw ang kanyang braso.

     Arni have a lot of complaints about the initiation; he even blamed Sid for forcing him to join the frat. Arni would wear a polo shirt. He could almost not move his arms.

Derived terms

• polo barong

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (pólo).

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)

Inflection

Derived terms

• vezipolo

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika