paul

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /pɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophones: pall, pawl

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.

paul (plural pauls)

1. Archaic form of pawl (“mechanical device”).
   • 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.

From Hindi [Term?].

• pal, pawl

paul (plural pauls)

1. (India, historical) A small tent of various kinds.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “paul”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• Palu, Pula, ULPA, pula

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

paul (Jawi spelling ڤاءول)

1. blue (blue-colored)

   Synonyms: belau, biru, nila

paul (Jawi spelling ڤاءول, plural paul-paul)

1. blue (colour)

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

Inherited from Late Latin padūlem, from Latin palūdem via metathesis. Compare Spanish paúl.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ul, (Brazil) -uw
• Hyphenation: pa‧ul

paul m (plural pauis)

1. (geography) swamp

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pântano

• “paul”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Compare Old Javanese pahul, pawul (“light blue”).

paul

1. blue

   Synonyms: biru, bulao

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpawl/ [ˈpaʊ̯l]
• Rhymes: -awl
• Syllabification: paul

paul (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔ᜎ᜔)

1. dated spelling of pawl

paul

1. fowl
2. chicken

   Synonym: kakaruk

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possibly from English "foul".”)

paul

1. immoral
2. confused, mixed up, tangled