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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), probably from or else cognate with Middle Dutch pol, p?le, polle (“top, summit; head”), 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”).

Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, skalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”), Low German polle (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from notion of "counting heads".

Alternative forms

• pol, pole

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /p?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??l/, /p??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /po?l/
• Homophones: pole, Pole

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.

   Synonyms: election, survey

2. A formal election.

   • All soldiers quartered in place are to remove […] and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

3. A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

4. The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
6. (now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.

   Synonym: scalp

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

   • 1908, O. Henry, A Tempered Wind

     And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..

7. (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
8. The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
9. The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.

Derived terms

• go to the polls
• opinion poll
• polling
• straw poll
• deed poll

Related terms

• pollard
• polliwog
• tadpole

Translations

Verb

poll (third-person singular simple present polls, present participle polling, simple past and past participle polled)

1. (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
2. (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
3. (intransitive) To vote at an election.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaconsfield to this entry?)

4. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.

   He polled a hundred votes more than his opponent.

   • 1717, Thomas Tickell, An Epistle from a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon

     poll for points of faith his trusty vote

5. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.

   to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass
6. (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).

   • when he [Absalom] polled his head

   • 1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives

     His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

7. (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
8. To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.

   to poll a tree

9. (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).

   The network hub polled the department's computers to determine which ones could still respond.

10. (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
    • 2008, Joanne McEvoy, The politics of Northern Ireland (page 171)

      The election was a resounding defeat for Robert McCartney who polled badly in the six constituencies he contested and even lost his own Assembly seat in North Down.

11. (obsolete) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
12. To impose a tax upon.
13. To pay as one's personal tax.

    • the man that polled but twelve pence for his head

14. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
15. (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation.

    a polled deed

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

Translations

Adjective

poll

1. (of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.

   Poll Hereford

   Red Poll cows

   • 1757, The monthly review, or, literary journal, volume 17, page 416:

     Sheep, that is, the Horned sort, and those without Horns, called Poll Sheep [...]

   • 1960, Frank O'Loghlen, Frank H. Johnston, Cattle country: an illustrated survey of the Australian beef cattle industry, a complete directory of the studs, page 85:

     About 15000 cattle, comprising 10000 Hereford and Poll Hereford, 4000 Aberdeen Angus and 1000 Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn, are grazed [...]

   • 1970, The Pastoral review, volume 80, page 457:

     Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.

References

Etymology 2

Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?l/

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. A pet parrot.

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ?????? (polloí, “the many, the masses”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l/

Noun

poll (plural polls)

1. (Britain, dated, Cambridge University) One who does not try for honors at university, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.

See also

• gentleman's C

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?po?/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin pullus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”).

Noun

poll m (plural polls)

1. chicken (bird)

Derived terms

• polla
• pollam
• pollet
• pollís

Related terms

• pollastre

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan, from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin p?d?culus, from p?dis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-.

Noun

poll m (plural polls)

1. louse (insect)

Derived terms

• pollós

See also

• llémena

Further reading

• “poll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

poll

1. first-person singular present indicative of pollen
2. imperative of pollen

German

Verb

poll

1. singular imperative of pollen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pollen

Icelandic

Noun

poll

1. indefinite accusative singular of pollur

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish poll (“hole”), from Old English p?l (compare English pool).

Pronunciation

• (Galway) IPA^(key): /p??ul??/

Noun

poll m (genitive singular poill, nominative plural poill)

1. hole
   1. storage pit; disposal pit; extraction pit
   2. pool, puddle; pond, sea
   3. burrow, lair
   4. dark, mean place (of prison)
   5. shaft, vent hole
   6. aperture
   7. (anatomy) orifice, cavity
   8. perforation
   9. (figuratively) leak
   10. pothole

Declension

Synonyms

• (pothole): linntreog

Derived terms

Verb

poll (present analytic pollann, future analytic pollfaidh, verbal noun polladh, past participle pollta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) hole; puncture, pierce, bore, perforate (make a hole in)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• polltóir (“perforator”)
• uchtbhalla pollta (“machicolation”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• "poll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “poll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Noun

poll

1. A head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which the hair (normally) grows

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pollr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l?/

Noun

poll m (definite singular pollen, indefinite plural pollar, definite plural pollane)

1. a small branch of a fjord, often with a narrow inlet

Further reading

• “poll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old English p?l (“pool”). Or, from Late Latin *padulus, metathesis of paludis, palus (“marsh, swamp, bog”). See also Welsh pwll (“pool swamp”), Irish poll, Middle Breton poull.

Noun

poll m (genitive singular puill, plural puill)

1. mud, mire
2. pond, pool, bog

Derived terms

• poll-caca

Mutation

References

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