# ol
## English
### Adjective

ol (not comparable)
* Nonstandard form of old.

### Anagrams

* 'lo, LO, Lo, lo

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

ol
* second-person singular imperative of olmaq

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

ol
* Obsolete form of o (“he, she, it”).

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English all. Cognate with Tok Pisin ol.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈol/
* Hyphenation: ol

### Pronoun

ol
* Synonym of olgeta

#### Usage notes

* Ol can only be used as an object to a verb or preposition. In all other positions, only olgeta is used.

#### See also
### Particle

ol
* Indicates the plural of the following noun; -s

### References

* Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, pages 29, 46

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From German als.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ol/
* Audio:(file)

### Conjunction

ol
* than
    Ŝi estas pli bela ol li.She is prettier than he.
    La vulpo estas pli granda ol la kapro.The fox is bigger than the goat.

#### See also

* antaŭ ol

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ol/, /ɔl/

### Pronoun

ol (plural oli, possessive olua, possessive plural olui)
* Apocopic form of olu; it, that

### See also

* The possessive plurals are seldom used.
* The shortened forms are preferred.
* The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

## Karaim
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ol.

### Noun

ol
* he, she, it

### References

* N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ol”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

## Maia
### Adverb

ol
* sweet

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ol (plural oles)
* Alternative form of hole (“hole”)

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

ol
* Alternative form of hole (“healthy, whole”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

ol (uncountable)
* Alternative form of oile (“oil”)

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

From Turkish yol (“way, road”), similar to tariqa and rêç (“path”), rêûresm (“ceremony”), rêbaz (“method”), etc. Compare oldaş (“friend, companion”) (from yoldaş). Originally only limited to Êzdi jargon term for "sect, cult" to refer to the Adawi order. It was popularized in the 90s favored over the native dîn to mean "religion" in Northern Kurdish media in an assumption that this word is "more Kurdish", as opposed to the native one which is the exact same of Turkish din; therefore a false attempt of purism.
On a lesser possibility, or perhaps now conflated with it, is an earlier *ord, a New Iranic development of *erd meaning "order"; akin to asha and rta. For the sound change compare Middle Persian 𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭥𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭩 (Ardwahišt) and Persian اردیبهشت (Ordibehešt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oːl/

### Noun

ol f
* religion
* sect

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ol m (definite singular olen, indefinite plural oler, definite plural olene)
* alternative form of ole

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

ol
* (non-standard since 2005) past tense of ale

### References

* “ol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse ól, ál.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uːl/, /uːɽ/
* Homophone: ord (some dialects)

#### Noun

ol f (definite singular ola, indefinite plural oler, definite plural olene)
* a leather strap
    Synonym: skinnreim

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse ǫl.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oːl/, /oːɽ/

#### Noun

ol n (definite singular olet, indefinite plural ol, definite plural ola)
* (rare) Alternative form of øl (“beer, ale”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uːɽ/

#### Noun

ol n (definite singular ole, indefinite plural ol, definite plural ola)
* (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag dialect, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of ord (“word”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uːl/, /uːɽ/
* Homophone: ord (some dialects)

#### Verb

ol
* past tense of ala
* past tense of elja

### References

* “ol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* LO, lo, OL, o.l.

## Old English
### Verb

ōl
* first/third-person singular preterite indicative of alan

## Old Irish
### Etymology 1

Kortlandt believes this particle to be a contraction of a Proto-Celtic phrase beginning with *ol est. In particular, he derives the inflected form olsí from a contraction of a Proto-Celtic phrase *ol est ēgt, with *ēgt deriving from *h₁eǵ- (“to say”). Its ending was reinterpreted as the feminine singular pronoun sí, giving rise to the analogical masculine form olsé.

#### Alternative forms

* ar

#### Particle

ol
* (quotative) says, said
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 31$^c$14
    “A n-atamm·res-⟨s⟩a,” ol Día.“When I shall arise,” says God.

##### Usage notes

This particle is used after or interrupting a quotation, either in an inflected form or followed by the identity of who is speaking.

##### Inflection

This particle inflects similarly to a preposition, but for pronominal gender and number only.
* Masculine singular: olsé
* Feminine singular: olsí
* Plural: olseat

##### Descendants

* Middle Irish: ol, ar, or, for, bar
** Irish: ar (“said, says”)

##### See also

* as·beir

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “6 ol (quotative particle)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 408, page 255; reprinted 2017

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* al

#### Conjunction

ol
* because, since
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56$^c$17
    ol is lond [translating commotus est]because he is angry

##### Synonyms

See Thesaurus:sga:ar for synonyms.

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ol (conjunction)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 905, page 559; reprinted 2017

### Etymology 3
#### Conjunction

ol (triggers nasalization)
* than [with ·tá (substantive verb)]
    Synonym: in(d) (dative of neuter article)
** c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 45$^a$15
    in bec máo .i. is bec as máo ol dáu-sa .i. is bec in derscuguda little greater i.e. she is a little greater than I (am), i.e. the distinction is small

##### Usage notes

* In the 3rd person of the ordinary (non-habitual) present indicative ·tá appears in the absolute relative form (singular daas, plural dátae). In all other numbers and tenses the conjunct form is used.
* Instead of a clause headed by ol or in(d), a comparative form can alternatively be followed by a dative noun to express the thing being compared to:
    fliuchu catt báittiuwetter than a drowned cat

#### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 ol {conjunction}”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 779.1, pages 477f.; reprinted 2017

### References

* ↑ Kortlandt, Frederik (1996) “Old Irish ol ‘inquit’”, in Études Celtiques, volume 32, pages 143–45

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ø̄l

### Etymology

From Old Norse ál, from Proto-Germanic *anhulō.

### Noun

ōl n
* strap, leather strap

#### Declension
## Romanian
### Noun

ol n (plural oale)
* Alternative form of oală

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *olъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /óːl/, /óːʋ/

### Noun

ọ̑l or ọ̑ł m inan
* (obsolete) beer

#### Synonyms

* pívo

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English all.

### Pronoun

ol
* The third-person plural pronoun (Tok Pisin does not inflect pronouns for cases): they, them.
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:22:Na God i mekim gutpela tok bilong givim strong long ol. Em i tokim ol olsem, “Yupela ol kain kain samting bilong solwara, yupela i mas kamap planti na pulapim olgeta hap bilong solwara. Na yupela ol pisin, yupela i mas kamap planti long graun.”→New International Version translation

#### See also
### Particle

ol
* Indicates plural of the following noun
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:20:Bihain God i tok olsem, “Solwara i mas pulap long ol kain kain samting i gat laip. Na ol pisin i mas kamap na flai nabaut long skai.”→New International Version translation

## Torres Strait Creole
### Pronoun

ol
* they, them (more than three; indefinite)

### See also

* dempla

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈol/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ol

### Verb

ol
* second-person singular imperative of olmak
    sessiz ol! - be quiet!

## Turkmen
### Alternative forms

* o

### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ol. Cognate with Ottoman Turkish اول (ol), Kazakh ол (ol), Kyrgyz ал (al), etc.

### Pronoun

ol
* (personal) she, he, it, that

#### Declension
### See also
## Volapük
### Pronoun

ol (plural ols)
* you (singular, subjective)
** 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:Ed ol: ‚Bethlehem’, ol: Yudän, leno binol bapikün pö plins Yudäna: bi se ol geidan osüikom, kel okälom pöpi obik: YisraelänAnd you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.