different between polo vs golf

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

English

Etymology

The word is first known in English from the 15th century from Scots. Although the etymology is uncertain, the most likely origin is that it comes from the Middle Dutch colve, colf (“club”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kulbô (“club”), related to German Kolben (“piston, rod”), Swedish kolv (“piston, rod”), Old English clopp (“rock; cliff”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??lf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /??f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lf/, /??lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf (uncountable)

1. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
2. Golf, the letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Golf”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension

     Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

2. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

Translations

Anagrams

• GLOF, flog

Asturian

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. (sports) golf

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colfus, colphus, culfus, alteration of colpus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos).

Noun

golf m (plural golfs)

1. gulf

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English golf.

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

Derived terms

• golfista

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English golf.

Noun

golf m

1. golf (a ball game)

Declension

Derived terms

• golfový
• golfista

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Golf.

Noun

golf m

1. bay, gulf

Declension

Further reading

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

References

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gelve, from Proto-Germanic *gelban?,Influenced by Late Latin colfus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kólpos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf f (plural golven, diminutive golfje n)

1. wave
2. (physics) wave
3. (geography) gulf

Synonyms

• (wave): waag

Derived terms

• arrestatiegolf
• geluidsgolf
• lichtgolf
• microgolf
• radiogolf
• vloedgolf
• zwaartekrachtsgolf

Verb

golf

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/, /??lf/
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -?lf

Noun

golf n (uncountable)

1. golf

Verb

golf

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

Faroese

Etymology

From English golf, from Scots.

Noun

golf n (genitive singular golfs, uncountable)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfbóltur m
• golfbreyt f
• golfleikari m
• golfvøllur m

Finnish

(index g)

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??olf/, [??o?lf]
• Rhymes: -olf
• Syllabification: golf

Noun

golf

1. golf

Declension

Synonyms

• kolopallo

Derived terms

• verbs: golfata

Compounds

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/
• Homophone: golfe

Noun

golf m (plural golf)

1. golf

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

German

Verb

golf

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??olf]
• Hyphenation: golf
• Rhymes: -olf

Noun

golf (plural golfok)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfoz
• golfozik

(Compound words):

• golfklub
• golfnadrág
• golfpálya

References

Icelandic

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

golf n (genitive singular golfs, no plural)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfari m (“golfer”)
• golfbíll m (“golf cart”)
• golfvöllur m (“golf course”)

Italian

Noun

golf m (invariable)

1. golf
2. jumper, cardigan

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English golf

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian golfo and French golfe

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfer, definite plural golfene)

1. a gulf (large bay)

Derived terms

• Golfstrømmen
• Mexicogolfen

References

• “golf” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From English golf

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, uncountable)

1. golf (a game played with a golf club and golf ball)

Derived terms

• golfbane
• golfklubb
• golfkølle

Etymology 2

From Italian golfo and French golfe

Noun

golf m (definite singular golfen, indefinite plural golfar, definite plural golfane)

1. a gulf (large bay)

Derived terms

• Mexicogolfen

References

• “golf” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lf/

Noun

golf m inan

1. golf
2. turtleneck, polo-neck

Declension

Noun

golf m anim

1. Volkswagen Golf car

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of golfe

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French golfe.

Noun

golf n (plural golfuri)

1. gulf

Declension

Etymology 2

From English golf.

Noun

golf n (uncountable)

1. golf

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

golf m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. golf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfaš
• golfer

Slovak

Noun

golf m (genitive singular golfu, nominative plural golfy, genitive plural golfov, declension pattern of dub)

1. golf
2. (geography) bay, gulf

Declension

Derived terms

• golfový
• golfský

Further reading

• golf in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English golf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??olf/, [??olf]

Noun

golf m (uncountable)

1. golf

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

golf c

1. gulf, bay
2. golf; a sport
3. Obsolete spelling of golv

Declension

Related terms

• golfa
• golfare
• golfbana
• golfklubb
• golfklubba
• Mexikanska golfen

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [?on??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?o???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?o???]
• Phonetic: gôn

Noun

golf

1. golf

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch golf.

Noun

golf c (plural golven, diminutive golfke)

1. wave (motion in a liquid)

   Synonym: weach

2. wave, gush
3. wave (in any other medium or field)

   Synonym: weach

4. (in the diminutive) tilde

Further reading

• “golf (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011