# poule
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /puːl/
* Rhymes: -uːl

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

#### Noun

poule (plural poules)
* A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
** 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.
** 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

poule (plural poules)
* (fencing) Alternative form of pool
* Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

### Anagrams

* Loupe, Puleo, loupe

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin pulla.

### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* hen

#### Synonyms

* geleigne

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpou̯lɛ]

### Verb

poule
* masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French poule.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pou‧le

### Noun

poule m (plural poules)
* pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pul/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ul

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus.

#### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* hen (female chicken)
    Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.My hen has just laid an egg.
* (slang) chick, bird (woman)

##### Derived terms

* ça roule, ma poule
* chair de poule
* lait de poule
* mère poule
* nid de poule
* papa poule
* poule au pot
* poule aux œufs d’or
* poule de bruyère
* poule des bois
* poule des coudriers
* poule d’eau
* poule d’Inde
* poule faisane
* poule mouillée
* poule perdrix
* poule pondeuse
* poule sultane
* quand les poules auront des dents
* se coucher avec les poules

##### Related terms

* poulain
* poulet

##### Descendants

* → Dutch: poelepetaat (from poule pintade)
* → English: poule

#### See also

* coq

### Etymology 2

Uncertain.

#### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* (card games) pool
* pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

##### Derived terms

* phase de poule

##### Descendants

* → English: pool

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* loupe, loupé

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* (Jersey) hen

#### Synonyms

* g'linne

#### Derived terms

* hèrbe à poules (“annual meadow grass”)
* lait d'poule (“milkshake”)
* poule dg'ieau (“moorhen”)
* poule d'ieau (“lumpsucker”)
* poulette (“pullet”)
* séthée ès poules (“bachelorette party, hen night, hen party”)

## Old French
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* hen (female chicken)

#### Derived terms

* poulet

#### Descendants

* French: poule
** → English: poule
* ⇒ Old French: polaille, poulaille
** French: poulaille
*** → Middle English: pullayle
* Norman: poule
* Walloon: poye

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

## Spanish
### Noun

poule f (plural poules)
* pool stage