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English

Etymology

Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.
   • 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

• LPO, Lop, PLO, lop

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

Noun

pol m or f (plural pols)

1. pole

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?l

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): /p?l/
• Hyphenation: pol
• Rhymes: -?l

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

Extremaduran

Preposition

pol

1. by

2. through
3. for

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?l]
• Hyphenation: pol

Etymology 1

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Adjective

pol (plural pol-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-, *b?wl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

Noun

pol (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. poll, a survey of a particular group.

Etymology 3

Noun

pol (first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. (nonstandard) Nonstandard form of pul.

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??l?]

Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "pol" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [p???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [p?l]

Interjection

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!

   • 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

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Bokmål

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?l/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +? monopol.

Noun

pol n (definite singular polet, indefinite plural pol, definite plural pola)

1. alcohol monopoly (a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing some or all alcoholic beverages)
   1. the institution itself (of alcohol monopoly)
   2. a retailer licenced (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

Etymology 3

Of unknown origin. See also pole.

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, uncountable)

1. a high ball caught by hand(s) before touching the ground

   Synonyms: hys, lyr

Derived terms

• ta pol

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pol

1. present tense of pola and pole

References

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• PLO

Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *p?laz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?l/

Noun

p?l m

1. pool

Declension

Descendants

• English: pool

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô?l/

Noun

p?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

Declension

Derived terms

• polarni

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sp?l (Croatia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô?l/

Noun

p?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender

Declension

Derived terms

• polni

Etymology 3

From p?la.

Alternative forms

• p?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô?l/

Particle

p?l (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Croatia) half

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?l/
• Homophone: pool

Noun

pol c

1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

Declension

Related terms

• batteripol
• magnetpol
• nordpol
• polär
• polarcirkel
• polarexpedition
• polarforskning
• sydpol

English

Etymology

Clipping of positive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?z/
• Rhymes: -?z
• Homophones: pause (in accents with the cot-caught merger), paws (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

poz (not comparable)

1. (slang) HIV positive.

   Synonym: pozzed

   Antonym: neg

Verb

poz (third-person singular simple present pozzes, present participle pozzing, simple past and past participle pozzed)

1. (slang, transitive) To infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted disease.
2. (slang, transitive, nonstandard) To say something positive to someone about themselves.

   Synonym: compliment

Related terms

• pozzed

Breton

Noun

poz

1. Hard mutation of boz.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pozdrav

Interjection

p?z (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) bye! (greeting)
2. (text messaging, Internet slang, informal) hello! hi! (greeting)

Synonyms

• pozdrav