# fole
## English
### Noun

fole (plural foles)
* Obsolete spelling of foal.
** 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Æstivation:In candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spālai, from Proto-Indo-European *spel (“to cleave, break”). Related to fyell and fell. Compare Greek φωλιά (foliá, “nest”), from Ancient Greek φωλεά (phōleá).

### Noun

fole f (plural fole, definite foleja, definite plural foletë)
* nest (mainly of birds)

#### Related terms

* fell
* fyell

### Verb

fole
* second-person singular aorist of flas

## Danish
### Etymology

From Swedish fåla. Cognate with English foal.

### Verb

fole (imperative fol, infinitive at fole, present tense foler, past tense folede, perfect tense folet)
* to foal (give birth to a foal)

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
foler
foles
past
folede
foledes
infinitive
fole
foles
imperative
fol
participle
present
folende
past
folet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
folen :

### References

* “fole” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French fol, from Latin follis.

#### Alternative forms

* foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /foːl/

#### Noun

fole (plural foles)
* A fool, idiot, or moron; somebody who is stupid or unthinking.
* An entertainer or joker; somebody who is employed to provide amusement.
* (rare) Someone who is incapacitated or shocked; someone whose idiocy is temporary.
* (rare) A victim of a scam or trick; someone who is fooled.

##### Derived terms

* folen
* folisch
* folliche
* folye

##### Descendants

* English: fool
* Geordie English: fuil, feul
* Scots: fule, fuil
* → Welsh: ffôl

#### Adjective

fole
* Foolish, moronic, idiotic, ridiculous.
* Evil, iniquitous, malign, devilish.
* Sexually deviant, immoral or sinful.

##### Descendants

* Scots: fule, fuil

#### References

* “fọ̄l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.
* “fọ̄l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

### Etymology 2

From Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô.

#### Alternative forms

* fool, foole, ffoole, fowle, foale

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔːl(ə)/

#### Noun

fole (plural foles)
* A foal (a young horse).
* A horse regardless of its age.
* The young of any other mammal, including the human being.

##### Descendants

* English: foal
* Scots: fole, foill
* Yola: voal

#### References

* “fōle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

fole
* Alternative form of folen (“to foal”)
* inflection of folen (“to foal”):
** first-person singular present indicative
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse foli.

#### Noun

fole m (definite singular folen, indefinite plural foler, definite plural folene)
* a foal (colt or filly)
    Synonym: føll

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse fola.

#### Verb

fole
* to foal (give birth to a foal)

### References

* “fole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse foli.

#### Noun

fole m (definite singular folen, indefinite plural folar, definite plural folane)
* a foal (colt or filly)
    Synonym: føl

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse fola.

#### Alternative forms

* fola

#### Verb

fole
* to foal (give birth to a foal)

### References

* “fole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɔ.li/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɔ.li/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɔ.le/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɔ.lɨ/
* Hyphenation: fo‧le

### Etymology 1

From Latin follis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

#### Noun

fole m (plural foles)
* bellows (flexible container used to blow air)

##### Derived terms

* gaita de foles
* ir no fole
* isto não é fole de ferreiro
* nascer entre dois foles

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Guinea-Bissau Creole foli, from Mandinka.

#### Noun

fole m (plural foles)
* (dialect, Guinea-Bissau) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

fole m (plural foles)
* (Mozambique) tobacco, snuff

### Further reading

* “fole”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “fole”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “fole” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “fole”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “fole”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “fole”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025