pol

Clipping of English Polish or Polish polski.

pol

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Polish.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Polish terms

Clipping of politician

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.
   • 1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.

   • 2008, Frank P. Vazzano, Politician Extraordinaire, page 174:

     The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.

• PLO, Lop, OLP, lop, LPO

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

From Latin polus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔl]
• Rhymes: -ɔl

pol m (plural pols)

1. pole

   el pol Sud ― the South Pole

   pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

• polar

• “pol”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pol”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “pol” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Rhymes: -oːl

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

From Middle Dutch pol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /pɔl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
2. (Belgium) a hand

• graspol

• Afrikaans: pol

pol

1. by

   Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.

   This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.

2. through
3. for

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]
• Hyphenation: pol

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

pol (comparative lebih pol, superlative paling pol)

1. (colloquial) full

   Synonym: penuh

2. (colloquial) maximum

   Synonym: maksimal

• pul

From English poll or Dutch poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

pol (plural pol-pol)

1. poll, a survey of a particular group

pol (plural pol-pol)

1. (nonstandard) nonstandard form of pul

• “pol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔlˠ]

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!
   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina:

     Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?

     Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

• edepol

• “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pol", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

• nordpol
• Polhavet

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

• nordpol
• Polhavet

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

pol n (definite singular polet, indefinite plural pol, definite plural pola)

1. alcohol monopoly (a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing some or all alcoholic beverages)
   1. the institution itself (of alcohol monopoly)
   2. a retailer licensed (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

Unknown.^[1] See also pole.

pol m (definite singular polen, uncountable)

1. a high ball caught by hand(s) before touching the ground

   Synonyms: hys, lyr

• ta pol

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pol

1. present tense of pola and pole

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• PLO

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

• IPA^(key): /poːl/

pōl m

1. pool

Strong a-stem:

• English: pool

Borrowed from Polish płeć.

pol f

1. gender

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “pol”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

pol m (invariable) (Bassa Romagna)

1. chicken

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

• polarni

• spȏl (Croatia)

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender

• polni

From pȍla.

• pȏ

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Croatia) half

   sat i pol ― an hour and a half

   tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

• ponoć

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpol/ [ˈpol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: pol

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. (archaic) contraction of por and el

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

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• Homophone: pool

pol c

1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically, such as the North Pole or South Pole.
2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

• pol in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)