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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?l/, [?we??]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: wail, whale (in accent with the whine–wine merger)

Etymology 1

The noun is from Middle English w?le (“planking, welt”), from Old English walu (“ridge, bank; rib, comb (of helmet); metal ridge on top of helmet; weal, mark of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“stick, root”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Akin to Low German w?le; Old Norse vala (“knuckle”). The verb is from late Middle English w?len, from the noun.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. A ridge or low barrier.
2. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy. (As opposed to course).
3. The texture of a piece of fabric.
4. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
5. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
6. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

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7. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
8. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.

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Related terms

• waling

Translations

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.
   • 1832, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, Political:

     Would suffer his lazy rider to bestride his patie: back, with his hands and whip to wale his flesh, and with his heels to dig into his hungry bowels?

   • 2002, Hal Rothman, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century:

     When faced with an adulthood that offered few options, grinding poverty and marriage to a man who drank too much and came home to wale on his own family or...no beatings.

2. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.

Translations

See also

• wale on
• whale
• weal
• wheal

Etymology 2

From Middle English wale, wal, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal? (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, want”). Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala "choice" (German Wahl "choice"), Old English willan (“to want”). More at will.

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.

Verb

wale (third-person singular simple present wales, present participle waling, simple past and past participle waled)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.

Alternative forms

• wail (obsolete)

References

• wale at OneLook Dictionary Search
• wale in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• alew, e-law, lawe, weal

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??le/

Noun

walé f 

1. possibility

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 75

Fulniô

Noun

wale

1. pig

References

• 2009 (originally 1968), Douglas Meland, Doris Meland, Fulniô (Yahthe) Syntax Structure: Preliminary Version, Associação Internacional de Linguística - SIL Brasil, page 19.

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.le/, [???le]

Noun

wale

1. phlegm
2. saliva

Particle

wale

1. Used to modify the preceding word only, just, alone; quite, very; simply, for free, without reason

References

• “wale” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?l?/

Adverb

w?le

1. Alternative form of wel

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wealh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz.

Alternative forms

• wælh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?l/

Noun

wale

2. (rare) An outsider; a guest; one from an unfamiliar land.
3. (rare) A thrall; a hireling.

Related terms

• Wales
• Walsch
• walmore
• walnot
• walwort

References

• “w?le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 2

From Old English walu, from Proto-Germanic *waluz.

Alternative forms

• walle, wala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?l(?)/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

2. A wooden board used for creating the exterior of a vessel; planking.
3. (rare) A welt; an injury created by use of a whip or a similar weapon.
4. (rare) A lesion; a boil.

Descendants

• English: wale, weal
• Scots: wale, wail

References

• “w?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse val, from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal?.

Alternative forms

• wayle, wall, wal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?l/

Noun

wale

2. A selection or possibility; a decision.
3. (rare) A preference; something chosen due to its quality.

Related terms

• walen

Descendants

• English: wale
• Scots: wale, Scots: wail

References

• “w?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Adjective

wale

2. amazing, of great quality or talent.
3. pleasing, nice, enjoyable, benevolent
4. strong, firm, strengthy
5. (negatively) impactful, grievous, melancholy
6. (rare) decided, resolved, picked.

References

• “w?le, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Etymology 4

Noun

wale

1. Alternative form of wal

Etymology 5

Verb

wale

1. Alternative form of walen

Etymology 6

Noun

wale

1. Alternative form of whale

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian willa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?val?/

Verb

wale

1. (Mooring Dialect) to want

Conjugation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.l?/
• Homophone: wal?

Noun

wale m inan or m anim

1. locative/vocative singular of wa?

Noun

wale m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of wal

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Noun

wale

1. house

   N? m?tou te wale nei.

   This is our house.

2. home

   Ka wano au ki wale kaikai.

   I'll go home and eat.

3. building

Derived terms

• waleimu (“cookhouse, kitchen”)
• walepule (“church”)
• walemaki (“hospital”)
• wale ?uli (“jail, prison”)

Further reading

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wal, wale, from Old Norse val (“choice”), from Proto-Germanic *wal?, *wal? (“desire, choice”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, wish”).

Akin to Old Norse velja (“to choose”), Old High German wala (“choice”) (German wählen (“to choose”)), Old English willan (“to want”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wel/

Noun

wale (plural wales)

1. choice, selection

Verb

wale (third-person singular present wales, present participle walin, past waled, past participle waled)

1. to choose

Swahili

Adjective

wale

1. Wa class inflected form of -le.

English

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin, most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived word shark/Schurke for a "scoundrel" (see below). The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English.

Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man".

Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from Yucatec Maya xoc (“fish”) (/?ok/), as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, Thomas Beckington used the word in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish, ruling out a New World origin for the word.

Noun

shark (plural sharks)

1. (ichthyology) A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
   • 1569, The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix., a broadside printed in London, the second earliest known use of the term; reprinted in A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597 in 1867:

     The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke.

Alternative forms

• sharke (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (scaleless cartilaginous fish): haye (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (rare) To fish for sharks.

See also

• barracuda
• dogfish
• hammerhead
• porbeagle
• smooth hound
• thresher
• white pointer

Etymology 2

From German Schurke (“scoundrel”); compare Dutch schurk.

Noun

shark (plural sharks)

1. Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
2. (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer.
3. (informal, derogatory) An ambulance chaser.
4. (informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
5. (informal) A very good poker or pool player. Compare fish (a bad poker player).
6. (sports and games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.

Synonyms

• (player who feigns ineptitude to win money): hustler

Usage notes

• The use of the term by people unfamiliar with pool is rarely well perceived by experienced players.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
   • 1628, John Earle, Microcosmography

     Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To live by shifts and stratagems.

   • Ah, captain, lay not all the fault upon officers! you know you can shark, though you be out of action

Derived terms

• shirk

Further reading

• shark at OneLook Dictionary Search
• shark in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 3

Probably from the "steal" senses above, but perhaps related to shear. Compare shirk.

Verb

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.

References

Anagrams

• HKSAR, harks

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sorka (“shirt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?k/

Noun

shark m (definite singular sharku)

1. shepherd's vest

Related terms

• sharkë

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (sárx).

Noun

shark m (definite singular sharku)

1. shell (of certain fruits like nuts, hazel, chestnut etc)
2. skin (that covers the seed of certain fruits like peach, grape, prunes etc)
3. snake skin

References