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Translingual

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Symbol

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pal

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

English

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Etymology

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PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr

Borrowed from Angloromani pal (brother, friend), from Romani phral (brother), from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, brother). Doublet of bhai, brother, frater, and friar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal (plural pals)

  1. (colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
    Little Timmy's out playing with his pals.
  2. (colloquial) An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way.
    Don't you threaten me, pal – I'll report you to the police.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: pêl

Translations

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Verb

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pal (third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

  1. Synonym of pal around
    • 2012 November 26, Evan Schlansky, “Song Premiere: Ife Sanchez Mora, Hopeful Heart”, in American Songwriter[1]:
      As an adult, she moved to New York and palled with trip-hop artist Tricky, who signed her to his own label.
    • 2017 August 21, Kyle Swenson, “The rise and fall of Miami’s ‘CEO of Purple Drank’”, in The Washington Post[2]:
      There were pictures of Garcia flashing diamond mouth grills. Spewing out a Vesuvius-amount of smoke. Showing off a riot of body tattoos. Aiming guns. Palling with superstars like Lil Wayne and Chris Brown. []
    • 2020 January 30, Ryan Mac, “How Tesla CEO Elon Musk Won His "Pedo Guy" Trial”, in BuzzFeed News[3]:
      In the trial, they showed photographs and videos of Unsworth being congratulated by the UK prime minister, palling with Thai government officials, and smiling while Prince William pinned him with an MBE, an appointment to the Order of the British Empire.
    • 2022 March 4, Graham Rayman, “Roger Stone said he never saw NYPD cop bodyguard with a gun or shield — video shows otherwise”, in New York Daily News[4]:
      Greco also palled with Stone’s friend “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was convicted of prostitution-related activities and selling prescription drugs.
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Anagrams

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Angloromani

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Romani phral. Cognate with English brother.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpʰæl], [pʰæɫ]

Noun

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pal

  1. brother
    Sa see pal te pen?
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  2. friend
    Every time I tried to make a pal...
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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: pal

References

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  • “pal”, in Angloromani Dictionary[5], The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 25
  • “pal”, in Angloromani Dictionary[6], The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 59

Asturian

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Etymology

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From a contraction of the preposition pa (for) + masculine singular article el (the).

Contraction

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pal m

  1. for the

Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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

Noun

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pal (definite accusative palı, plural pallar)

  1. the green husk of a young hazelnut

Declension

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    Declension of pal
singular plural
nominative pal
pallar
definite accusative palı
palları
dative pala
pallara
locative palda
pallarda
ablative paldan
pallardan
definite genitive palın
palların
    Possessive forms of pal
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) palım pallarım
sənin (your) palın palların
onun (his/her/its) palı palları
bizim (our) palımız pallarımız
sizin (your) palınız pallarınız
onların (their) palı or palları palları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) palımı pallarımı
sənin (your) palını pallarını
onun (his/her/its) palını pallarını
bizim (our) palımızı pallarımızı
sizin (your) palınızı pallarınızı
onların (their) palını or pallarını pallarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) palıma pallarıma
sənin (your) palına pallarına
onun (his/her/its) palına pallarına
bizim (our) palımıza pallarımıza
sizin (your) palınıza pallarınıza
onların (their) palına or pallarına pallarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) palımda pallarımda
sənin (your) palında pallarında
onun (his/her/its) palında pallarında
bizim (our) palımızda pallarımızda
sizin (your) palınızda pallarınızda
onların (their) palında or pallarında pallarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) palımdan pallarımdan
sənin (your) palından pallarından
onun (his/her/its) palından pallarından
bizim (our) palımızdan pallarımızdan
sizin (your) palınızdan pallarınızdan
onların (their) palından or pallarından pallarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) palımın pallarımın
sənin (your) palının pallarının
onun (his/her/its) palının pallarının
bizim (our) palımızın pallarımızın
sizin (your) palınızın pallarınızın
onların (their) palının or pallarının pallarının

Further reading

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  • pal” in Obastan.com.

Cahuilla

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

Noun

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pál

  1. water

References

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  • Katherine Siva Sauvel, Pamela Munro (1983) Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla)

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan pal, from Latin pālus (stake, pole), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal m (plural pals)

  1. stake
  2. pole
  3. (field hockey or ice hockey) stick
    Synonym: estic
  4. (heraldry) pale
  5. (colloquial) bore, drag
    és un palhe's a drag
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References

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Cupeño

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa. Cognate with Cahuilla pál, Luiseño paala, Tübatulabal bal, Northern Paiute paa, Comanche paa, Hopi paahu, Classical Nahuatl atl.

Noun

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pál

  1. water

References

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  • Jane H. Hill (2005) A Grammar of Cupeño

Cypriot Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic بَال (bāl).

Noun

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pal m

  1. (always with a pronominal suffix) mind, attention, memory

References

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  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 169

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Interjection

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pal!

  1. fire! (a signal to shoot)

Verb

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pal

  1. second-person singular imperative of pálit

Further reading

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  • pal”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • pal”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle French pal, from Latin pālus. Cognate with paal.

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Noun

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pal m (plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

  1. catch (mechanism which stops something from moving the wrong way)

Adverb

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pal

  1. firm, firmly
  2. (with a preposition or adverb) right, immediately

Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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From Old French pal (12th c.), variant of pel, from Latin pālus (stake, pole). Doublet of pieu. The Trésor informatisé considers Old French pal a learned borrowing, but it might be a dialectal variant instead.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal m (plural pals or (archaic) paux)

  1. stake
  2. pole
  3. (heraldry) pale

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Garo

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Etymology

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

Postposition

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pal

  1. (follows genitive case -ni) because, on account of

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia id

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpal]
  • Hyphenation: pal

Etymology 1

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From Dutch paal (pole), from Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, from Latin pālus. Semantic loan from Dutch mijlpaal (milestone).

Noun

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pal

  1. milestone, one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
    Synonyms: batu, mil, tonggak
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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pal

  1. Nonstandard spelling of faal.

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Lower Sorbian

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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pal

  1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

Northern Kurdish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal ?

  1. side

Occitan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal m (plural pals)

  1. post, pole, stake
  2. (nautical) mast

Old English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pālus (stake), possibly through a Proto-West Germanic intermediate *pāl. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal). Doublet of pǣl, from the variant Proto-West Germanic *pāli.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pāl m

  1. stake

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative pāl pālas
accusative pāl pālas
genitive pāles pāla
dative pāle pālum

Descendants

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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from either Old Dutch pāl or Old High German pāl, from Proto-West Germanic *pāl, from Latin pālus (stake, prop), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (to attach). Cognate to Old English pāl. Doublet of pēl.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pāl f

  1. pole

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References

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  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Pipil

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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-pal

  1. of (genitive relation, also forms genitive pronouns)
    Ne pelu ipal ne takat
    The dog of the man → The man's dog.
    Ashan ini kal mupal
    Now this house is yours
  2. for (benefactive relation)
    Tikpiat se mupal wan se nupal
    We have one for you and one for me

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  • The relational noun -pal is part of a restricted group of relationals that can be used without a possessive marker when it accompanies an explicit complement, thus acting like a preposition:
    Ne pelu pal ne takat
    The dog of the man → The man's dog.

Declension

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Middle High German pfāl, phāl, from Old High German pfāl, phāl, from Proto-West Germanic *pāl, *pāli, from Latin pālus, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Noun

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pal m inan (diminutive palik)

  1. stake (piece of wood)
  2. (construction) pile (for the support of a building)
    Hypernym: słup
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Etymology 2

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Imperative of palić.

Interjection

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pal

  1. (military) shoot!

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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pal

  1. second-person singular imperative of palić

Further reading

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  • pal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French pâle.

Adjective

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pal m or n (feminine singular pală, masculine plural pali, feminine and neuter plural pale)

  1. pale

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite pal pală pali pale
definite palul pala palii palele
genitive-
dative
indefinite pal pale pali pale
definite palului palei palilor palelor

Southwestern Dinka

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Noun

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pal (plural paal)

  1. knife

Spanish

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Contraction

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pal

  1. (colloquial) contraction of para (for) + el (the)
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Further reading

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Volapük

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pal (nominative plural pals)

  1. parent, father or mother
    Hyponyms: fat, hipal, jipal, mot

Declension

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Derived terms

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