soul

See also: Soul, soûl, and Söul

English

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soul

Etymology 1

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel, Icelandic sál, Finnish sielu may have come from Old English sāwol.

Alternative forms

sowl (archaic)
soule (obsolete)

Pronunciation

enPR: sōl
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊl/, [sɔʊɫ], [sɒʊɫ]
- (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊl/
  - Audio (California): (file)
- (Canada) IPA^(key): [so̞ːɫ]
- (General Australian) IPA^(key): /səʉl/, /sɐʉl/
- (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sɐʉl/
Rhymes: -əʊl
Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

Noun

soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)

(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
- 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid
  "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
  No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
- 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
  Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!
The spirit or essence of anything.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎^[1], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 36–37:
  It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make him a great President. It is that quality of soul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality of soul which makes him a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest in one's fellow men.
Life, energy, vigor.
- 1725, [Edward Young], “Satire III. To the Right Honourable Mr. Dodington.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 52:
  That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
- 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin
  I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
An individual life.
Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
(mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

Synonyms

(spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
(a person): See also Thesaurus:person

Derived terms

English terms starting with “soul”

Related terms

mind
spirit

Descendants

→ German: Soul
→ Esperanto: soulo
→ French: soul
→ Hungarian: soul
→ Italian: soul
→ Japanese: ソウル
→ Polish: soul
→ Portuguese: soul
→ Romanian: soul
→ Scots: sowel
→ Spanish: soul

Translations

the spirit or essence of a person that is often believed to live on after the person's death

Abkhaz: аԥсы (apsə)
Adyghe: псэ (psɛ)
Afrikaans: siel (af)
Ainu: ラマ (rama)
Akan: kra, ɔkra
Albanian: shpirt (sq) m, avë f, zë
Amharic: ነፍስ (näfs)
Arabic: رُوح (ar) m or f (rūḥ), نَفْس (ar) f (nafs)
Egyptian Arabic: روح f (rūḥ), نفس f (nafs)
Aramaic:
Hebrew: רוחא f (rūħā)
Armenian: հոգի (hy) (hogi)
Aromanian: suflit, suflet
Asturian: alma (ast) f
Avar: рухӏ (ruḥʳ)
Azerbaijani: ruh (az), can (az)
Bashkir: йән (yən), рух (rux)
Basque: arima (eu), gogo
Belarusian: душа́ f (dušá)
Bengali: আত্মা (bn) (atta), রূহ (bn) (ruho), জান (bn) (jan)
Bhojpuri: आत्मा (ātmā)
Bikol Central: kalag (bcl)
Breton: ene (br) m
Bulgarian: душа́ (bg) f (dušá)
Burmese: ဝိညာဉ် (my) (wi.nyany)
Carpathian Rusyn: душа́ f (dušá)
Catalan: ànima (ca) f
Cebuano: kalag
Chamicuro: sana'ne
Chechen: са (sa)
Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎾᏔ (adanata)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (ling⁴ wan⁴), 魂魄 (wan⁴ paak³)

Hokkien: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (lêng-hûn), 魂魄 (zh-min-nan) (hûn-phek)

Mandarin: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (zh) (línghún), 魂魄 (zh) (húnpò)
Chuukese: ngun
Classical Syriac: ܪܘܚܐ f (rūħā)
Coptic: ⲯⲩⲭⲏ m or f (psukhē)
Cornish: enev m, ena f
Czech: duše (cs) f
Dalmatian: jamna f
Danish: sjæl (da) c
Dutch: ziel (nl) f, geest (nl) m
Elfdalian: själ f
Erzya: ойме (ojme)
Esperanto: animo (eo)
Estonian: hing (et)
Farefare: sɩa
Faroese: sál f
Finnish: sielu (fi), henki (fi)
French: âme (fr) f
Old French: ame
Friulian: anime f ànime f
Gagauz: can
Galician: alma (gl) f, ánima (gl) f
Georgian: სული (ka) (suli)
German: Seele (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 f (saiwala)
Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí)
Ancient: ψυχή f (psukhḗ)
Guinea-Bissau Creole: alma
Gujarati: આત્મા (gu) (ātmā)
Hawaiian: ʻuhane
Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה (he) f (neshamá), נֶפֶשׁ (he) f (néfesh), (biblical) רוּחַ (he) m or f (rúakh)
Hindi: आत्मा (hi) f (ātmā), रूह (hi) f (rūh), नफ़्स m (nafs), नफ्स (hi) m (naphs)
Hungarian: lélek (hu), önvaló (hu)
Icelandic: sál (is) f
Ido: anmo (io)
Ilocano: kararua
Indonesian: ruh (id)
Ingrian: henki
Interlingua: anima
Irish: anam (ga) m
Old Irish: ainimm f
Istriot: anema f
Italian: anima (it) f
Japanese: 魂 (ja) (たましい, tamashii), 霊 (ja) (れい, rei, たま, tama), 魂魄 (ja) (こんぱく, konpaku)
Kabardian: псэ (kbd) (psɛ)
Kalmyk: седкл (sedkl)
Kannada: ಆತ್ಮ (kn) (ātma)
Kapampangan: kaladua
Kashubian: dësza f
Kazakh: жан (kk) (jan), рух (rux), діл (kk) (dıl)
Khiamniungan Naga: ūotshōu
Khmer: ព្រលឹង (prɔlɨng), វិញ្ញាណ (km) (vɨññiən)
Komi-Zyrian: лов (lov)
Korean: 영혼(靈魂) (ko) (yeonghon), 령혼(靈魂) (ryeonghon) (North Korea), 혼백(魂魄) (ko) (honbaek), 넋 (ko) (neok), 얼 (ko) (eol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rih (ku)
Kyrgyz: жан (ky) (jan), рух (ky) (ruh), дил (ky) (dil)
Ladino: alma f
Lakota: naǧí
Lao: ວິນຍານ (win nyān)
Latgalian: dvēsele
Latin: anima (la) f, animus (la) m
Latvian: dvēsele (lv) f, velis (lv) m
Lezgi: руьгь (rüh)
Lithuanian: siela (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Séil (lb) f
Macedonian: душа (mk) f (duša)
Malay: roh (ms), jiwa (ms), nyawa (ms)
Malayalam: ആത്മാവ് (ml) (ātmāvŭ)
Maltese: ruħ m
Manchu: ᡶᠠᠶᠠᠩᡤᠠ (fayangga)
Manx: annym m
Maore Comorian: roho class 9/10
Maori: wairua
Marathi: आत्मा (ātmā)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: чон (čon), ӧрт (ört)

Western Mari: йӓнг (jäng)
Mazanderani: جان
Middle English: soule
Moksha: вайме (vajme)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сүнс (mn) (süns)

Mongolian: ᠰᠦ᠋ᠨ᠋ᠡᠰᠦ (sünesü)
Navajo: iiʼ sizíinii
Nepali: आत्मा (ne) (ātmā)
Nogai: ян (yan)
North Frisian: Siil c (Sylt)
Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} ис (is)
Northern Sami: heagga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sjel (no) m or f

Nynorsk: sjel f
Nǀuu: ǀʻumsi
Occitan: arma (oc) f, anma (oc) f
Odia: ଆତ୍ମା (ātmā)
Ojibwe: ojichaag
Okinawan: まぶい (mabui), 魂 (たましー, tamashī) (of the dead)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: доуша f (duša)
Old Dutch: sēla f
Old East Slavic: душа f (duša)
Old High German: ferah
Old Norse: sál f
Old Portuguese: alma
Old Prussian: dūsi f
Old Saxon: sēola f, gēst m
Ossetian: уд (ud)
Ottoman Turkish: روح (ruh)
Pali: viññāṇa
Pannonian Rusyn: душа f (duša)
Pashto: روح (ps) f (roh), نفس (ps) m (nafs)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: روح (fa) (ruh), رَوان (ravân), جان (fa) (jân), نَفْس (nafs)
Polish: dusza (pl) f
Portuguese: alma (pt) f
Quechua: aya, nuna (qu)
Romanian: suflet (ro) n
Romansch: olma f
Russian: душа́ (ru) f (dušá)
Saanich: SELI
Sanskrit: आत्मन् (sa) m (ātmán), त्मन् (sa) m (tmán), विज्ञान (sa) n (vijñāna)
Sardinian: ànima f
Saterland Frisian: Seele f
Scottish Gaelic: anam m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ду́ша f

Roman: dúša (sh) f
Shan: ၶႂၼ်ငဝ်း (khwǎn ngáo), ဝိၺၢၼ်ႇ (wǐ nyàan)
Sinhalese: ආත්මය (si) (ātmaya)
Slovak: duša f
Slovene: duša (sl) f
Somali: naf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: duša f

Upper Sorbian: duša f
Southern Altai: тын (tïn), јан (ǰan)
Spanish: alma (es) f, pneuma f
Sranan Tongo: kra
Swahili: roho (sw), nafsi (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: själ (sv)
Tabasaran: рюгь (rjuh), жан (žan)
Tagalog: kalag, kaluluwa (tl)
Tajik: рӯҳ (rüh), ҷон (jon), дил (tg) (dil), нафс (nafs)
Tamil: ஆன்மா (ta) (āṉmā)
Tatar: рух (tt) (rux), өрәк (tt) (öräk), кот (tt) (qot), җан (tt) (can)
Tausug: nyawa
Telugu: ఆత్మ (te) (ātma)
Thai: วิญญาณ (th) (win-yaan)
Tibetan: རྣམ་ཤེས (rnam shes)
Tocharian A: āñcäm
Tocharian B: āñme
Turkish: ruh (tr), can (tr), tin (tr)
Turkmen: ruh, jan (tk)
Tuvan: сүнезин (sünezin)
Udmurt: лул (lul)
Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎔𐎌 (npš)
Ukrainian: душа́ (uk) f (dušá)
Urdu: رُوح f (rūh), آتْما (ur) f (ātmā), نَفْس m (nafs)
Uyghur: روھ (roh), دىل (dil)
Uzbek: ruh (uz), jon (uz), dil (uz), nafs (uz)
Venetan: ànema (vec) f
Veps: heng
Vietnamese: linh hồn (vi) (靈魂)
Võro: heng'
Votic: entši
Walloon: åme (wa) f
Welsh: enaid (cy) m,ysbryd (cy) m
West Frisian: siel (fy) c, siele (fy) c
Yagnobi: ҷон (jon)
Yámana: kašpíx
Yakut: сүр (sür)
Yiddish: נשמה f (neshome), נעשאָמע f (neshome)
Yonaguni: 魂 (たまち, tamachi)
Zhuang: hoenz
Zulu: umoya (zu) class 3
ǃXóõ: ǃnáã-sé

life, energy, vigour

Bulgarian: дух (bg) m (duh)
Catalan: ànima (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心靈 / 心灵 (zh) (xīnlíng), 魂 (zh) (hún)
Danish: gejst c
Dutch: ziel (nl) f
Esperanto: animo (eo)
Finnish: sielu (fi), henki (fi)
French: âme (fr) f
Georgian: გული (guli)
German: Geist (de) m
Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí)
Hebrew: רוח חיים f (ruakh khayím), נְשָׁמָה (he) f (n'shamá)
Indonesian: nyawa (id)
Japanese: 魂 (ja) (たましい, tamashii), 精神 (ja) (せいしん, seishin)
Korean: 넋 (ko) (neok), 정신(精神) (ko) (jeongsin)
Latin: animus (la) m
Latvian: dvēsele (lv) f
Malay: semangat (ms)
Maori: tino (mi)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: ӧрт (ört)
Middle English: soule
Oromo: lubbuu
Polish: życie (pl) n
Portuguese: ânimo (pt) m
Romanian: spirit (ro) n
Russian: душа́ (ru) f (dušá), дух (ru) m (dux)
Sundanese: manah
Swedish: själ (sv)
Tagalog: diwa (tl)
Ukrainian: дух m (dux)
Walloon: åme (wa) f
Welsh: ysbryd (cy) m

soul music

Bulgarian: со́ул f (sóul)
Czech: soul (cs) m
Danish: soul c, soulmusik c
Dutch: soul (nl) f
Esperanto: soulo
Finnish: soul (fi)
French: soul (fr) f
German: Soul (de)
Greek: σόουλ f (sóoul)
Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה (he) f (n'shamá)
Italian: soul (it)
Japanese: ソウル (ja) (souru)
Korean: 소울 (soul)
Latin: animus (la) m
Maori: puoro kōmanawa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: soul m
Polish: soul (pl) m
Portuguese: soul (pt) m
Russian: со́ул (ru) m (sóul)
Slovak: soul m
Swedish: soul (sv)

person, especially as one among many

Bashkir: кеше (keşe), бәндә (bəndə), инсан (insan)
Danish: sjæl (da) c
Finnish: sielu (fi)
French: âme (fr) f
German: Seele (de) f
Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí)
Hebrew: נֶפֶשׁ (he) f (néfesh), נפש חיה f (néfesh hayá)
Hindi: जीवन (hi) (jīvan), जान (hi) f (jān)
Indonesian: insan (id), jiwa (id)
Ingrian: henki
Italian: anima (it), persona (it)
Latin: animus (la) m
Middle English: soule
Ngazidja Comorian: nafusi class 9/10
Portuguese: alma (pt) f
Romanian: suflet (ro) n
Sanskrit: प्राणी (sa) (prāṇī), सात्मप्राणी (sātmaprāṇī)
Swedish: själ (sv)
Telugu: నూటికి ఒక్కడు (nūṭiki okkaḍu)
Walloon: åme (wa) f
Yiddish: נפֿש n (nefesh)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Estonian: ^{(please verify)} hing (et)
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} siela (lt) f
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ánimo (es) m

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

(obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul or mind.
Synonyms: besoul, ensoul
To beg on All Soul's Day.
Coordinate term: trick-or-treat
- 1981, Geoffrey Scard, Squire and tenant: life in rural Cheshire, 1760-1900, page 93:
  All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

(obsolete) To feed or nourish.^[1]
- 1741, unknown [formerly attributed to Daniel Defoe], The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross: […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R[ichard] Montagu, →OCLC, part II, page 76:
  During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, [...]

References

^ “soul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

“soul”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
“soul”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Luso-, luso-

Czech

Noun

soul m inan

soul (music style)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsou̯l/, [ˈs̠o̞u̯l]
Rhymes: -oul
Hyphenation^(key): soul

Noun

soul

soul music

Declension

Inflection of soul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		soul	—
genitive		soulin	—
partitive		soulia	—
illative		souliin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		soul	—
accusative	nom.	soul	—
accusative	gen.	soulin	—
genitive		soulin	—
partitive		soulia	—
inessive		soulissa	—
elative		soulista	—
illative		souliin	—
adessive		soulilla	—
ablative		soulilta	—
allative		soulille	—
essive		soulina	—
translative		souliksi	—
abessive		soulitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of soul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		soulini	—
accusative	nom.	soulini	—
accusative	gen.	soulini	—
genitive		soulini	—
partitive		souliani	—
inessive		soulissani	—
elative		soulistani	—
illative		souliini	—
adessive		soulillani	—
ablative		souliltani	—
allative		soulilleni	—
essive		soulinani	—
translative		soulikseni	—
abessive		soulittani	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

second-person singular possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		soulisi	—
accusative	nom.	soulisi	—
accusative	gen.	soulisi	—
genitive		soulisi	—
partitive		souliasi	—
inessive		soulissasi	—
elative		soulistasi	—
illative		souliisi	—
adessive		soulillasi	—
ablative		souliltasi	—
allative		soulillesi	—
essive		soulinasi	—
translative		souliksesi	—
abessive		soulittasi	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

first-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		soulimme	—
accusative	nom.	soulimme	—
accusative	gen.	soulimme	—
genitive		soulimme	—
partitive		souliamme	—
inessive		soulissamme	—
elative		soulistamme	—
illative		souliimme	—
adessive		soulillamme	—
ablative		souliltamme	—
allative		soulillemme	—
essive		soulinamme	—
translative		souliksemme	—
abessive		soulittamme	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

second-person plural possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		soulinne	—
accusative	nom.	soulinne	—
accusative	gen.	soulinne	—
genitive		soulinne	—
partitive		soulianne	—
inessive		soulissanne	—
elative		soulistanne	—
illative		souliinne	—
adessive		soulillanne	—
ablative		souliltanne	—
allative		soulillenne	—
essive		soulinanne	—
translative		souliksenne	—
abessive		soulittanne	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

third-person possessor
		singular	plural
nominative		soulinsa	—
accusative	nom.	soulinsa	—
accusative	gen.	soulinsa	—
genitive		soulinsa	—
partitive		souliaan souliansa	—
inessive		soulissaan soulissansa	—
elative		soulistaan soulistansa	—
illative		souliinsa	—
adessive		soulillaan soulillansa	—
ablative		souliltaan souliltansa	—
allative		soulilleen soulillensa	—
essive		soulinaan soulinansa	—
translative		soulikseen souliksensa	—
abessive		soulittaan soulittansa	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

compounds

soul-musiikki

Anagrams

Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos

Franco-Provençal

Adjective

soul (Piemontais)

Alternative form of sol (“alone”)

References

soul in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology 1

See saoul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su/
Homophones: sou, souls, sous

Adjective

soul (feminine soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

post-1990 spelling of soûl, itself an alternative form of saoul (“drunk”)

Derived terms

souler

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sol/, /sul/

Noun

soul f (uncountable)

soul, soul music

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsoːl] (phonetic respelling: szól)
Hyphenation: soul
Homophone: szól
Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

soul (usually uncountable, plural soulok)

(music) soul music

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	soul	soulok
accusative	soult	soulokat
dative	soulnak	souloknak
instrumental	soullal	soulokkal
causal-final	soulért	soulokért
translative	soullá	soulokká
terminative	soulig	soulokig
essive-formal	soulként	soulokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	soulban	soulokban
superessive	soulon	soulokon
adessive	soulnál	souloknál
illative	soulba	soulokba
sublative	soulra	soulokra
allative	soulhoz	soulokhoz
elative	soulból	soulokból
delative	soulról	soulokról
ablative	soultól	souloktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	soulé	souloké
non-attributive possessive - plural	souléi	soulokéi

Possessive forms of soul
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	soulom	souljaim
2nd person sing.	soulod	souljaid
3rd person sing.	soulja	souljai
1st person plural	soulunk	souljaink
2nd person plural	soulotok	souljaitok
3rd person plural	souljuk	souljaik

Derived terms

soulzene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsol/, (careful style) /ˈsowl/^[1]
Rhymes: -ol, (careful style) -owl
Hyphenation: (careful style) sóul

Noun

soul m or f (invariable)

soul music

References

^ soul in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

suol

Middle English

Noun

soul

Alternative form of soule

Old French

Adjective

soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)

Alternative form of sol

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	souls	soule	soul
singular	oblique	soul	soule		soule	soul
plural	subject	soul	soules		soul
plural	oblique	souls	soules		soules	soul

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

soul

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English soul, from Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɔwl/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɔwl
Syllabification: soul

Noun

soul m inan

soul music

Declension

Declension of soul

	singular
nominative	soul
genitive	soul/soulu
dative	soul/soulowi
accusative	soul
instrumental	soul/soulem
locative	soul/soulu
vocative	soul/soulu

Derived terms

adjective

soulowy

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English soul.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /sow/
- Homophone: sou (when pronounced with the /w/)

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

(music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Adjective

soul m or f or n (indeclinable)

soul (music)

Declension

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
invariable		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	soul	soul	soul	soul
nominative- accusative	definite	—	—	—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	soul	soul	soul	soul
genitive- dative	definite	—	—	—	—

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsoul/ [ˈsou̯l]
Rhymes: -oul
Syllabification: soul

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

soul, soul music

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

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Descendants

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Verb

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Etymology 2

Verb

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Czech

Noun

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Further reading

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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Franco-Provençal

Adjective

References

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

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Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

Old French

Adjective

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Polish

Etymology

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Noun

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Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

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Noun

Romanian

Etymology

Adjective

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Spanish

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