pal

pal

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

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pal/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pæl/
• Rhymes: -æl
• Homophone: pow (some regions)

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.

• See also Thesaurus:friend

• → Afrikaans: pêl

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

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

   John plans to pal around with Joe today.

• ALP, APL, LPA, PLA, Pla, alp, lap

• palla, pel, pral, prala, pralla, pulu

Inherited from Romani phral. Cognate with English brother.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰæl], [pʰæɫ]

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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• → English: pal
  • → Afrikaans: pêl

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

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

pal m

1. for the

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

pál

1. water

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

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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal/
• Rhymes: -al

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 pal ― he's a drag

• “pal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “pal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

pál

1. water

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal]
• Rhymes: -al

pal!

1. fire! (a signal to shoot)

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pálit

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

pal (plural paal)

1. knife

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

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑl

pal m (plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

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

pal

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

• lap

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”). Compare the inherited doublet pieu.

• IPA^(key): /pal/

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pal m (plural pals)

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

• “pal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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pal

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

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

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

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

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

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of faal.

• “pal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): [pal]

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/
• Rhymes: -al

pal ?

1. side

• IPA^(key): /pal/

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pal m (plural pals)

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/

pāl m

1. stake

• Middle English: paal, pall, pol, poll, pole
  • English: pole
  • Scots: pale, pall

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːl/

pāl f

1. pole

• North Frisian: pul
• West Frisian: peal, poal

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

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

-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

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /pal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pal

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake”).

pal m inan

1. stake (piece of wood)
2. pile (for the support of a building)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of palić

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

From French pâle.

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

1. pale

pal

1. (colloquial) contraction of para (“for”) + el (“the”)

• “pal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): [pal]

pal (nominative plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother

   Hyponyms: fat, hipal, jipal, mot