different between yaul vs paul

English

Noun

yaul (plural yauls)

1. Alternative form of yawl

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?l/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /p?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: pall, pawl

Etymology 1

Noun

paul (plural pauls)

1. An old Italian silver coin; a paolo.
   • 1836, Mariana Starke, Travels in Europe and in the Island of Sicily (page 569)

     Shoes and boots are, generally speaking, better made at Florence than in any other part of Italy: the usual price charged for the former is eight pauls the pair; and for the latter from thirty to forty pauls.

Etymology 2

Noun

paul (plural pauls)

1. Archaic form of pawl.
   • 1850, The Mechanic's Magazine, Register, Journal and Gazette (page 517)

     As soon as the horse again begins to move, the paul will take into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and restore to the fly-wheel its original speed.

Anagrams

• Palu, Pula, ULPA, pula

Malay

Etymology

From Sundanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [paol]
• Rhymes: -aol, -ol

Adjective

paul (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paul-paul)

1. blue (blue-colored)

Synonyms

• belau / ?????
• biru / ?????
• nila / ?????

Noun

paul (Jawi spelling ??????, plural paul-paul, informal 1st possessive paulku, impolite 2nd possessive paulmu, 3rd possessive paulnya)

1. blue (colour)

Further reading

• “paul” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pad?lem (a root), from Latin pal?dem, accusative of pal?s (“swamp”). Compare Italian padule, Romanian p?dure.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /p?.?u?/
• Hyphenation: pa?ul

Noun

paul m (plural pauis)

1. (geography) swamp

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:pântano.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Probably from English Paul.

Adjective

paul

1. confused