# goal
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡəʊl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
** (doll–dole merger) IPA: /ɡɒl/
* (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /ɡɐʉl/, [ɡɒʊɫ]
* (General American) IPA: /ɡoʊl/, [ɡoɫ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊl

### Noun

goal (plural goals)
* A result that one is attempting to achieve.
    My lifelong goal is to get into a Hollywood movie.
    She failed in her goal to become captain of the team.
** 2013 November 2, “A shrinking slice”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8860:The goal should be to strengthen workers without hamstringing firms. Growth, rather than employment protection, is the priority. More work means a stronger labour market, which would bid up employees’ slice, as it did in America in the 1990s when unemployment was at record lows.
* (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
    fans behind the goal
    play in goal
* (sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.
    miss a goal
    concede a goal
    let in a goal
* A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
    score a goal
** 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2-1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
* (linguistics, grammar) A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.

#### Synonyms

* (a result one is attempting to achieve:) ambition, object of desire, objective, purpose, aspiration
* See also Thesaurus:goal

#### Derived terms

English terms starting with “goal”
* antigoal
* any hole's a goal
* away goal
* basketball goal
* captain's goal
* consolation goal
* distal goal
* drop goal (drop-goal)
* dropped goal
* empty-net goal (empty net goal)
* end goal
* field goal → field goal percentage
* ghost goal
* goal area
* goal attack
* goal average
* goalball
* goalbound
* goalbox
* goal cage
* goal celebration
* goal defence
* goal difference
* goal-directed
* goaler
* goalfest
* goalframe
* goal-getter, goalgetter
* goalhanger
* goalie
* goalish
* goal judge
* goalkeeper (goal keeper)
* goal kick
* goalkicker
* goalkicking
* goalless
* goal line (goalline), goal-line
* goal machine
* goalminder
* goalmouth
* goalodicy
* goal-oriented (goal-orientated)
* goalpost (goal post) → move the goalposts
* goalscorer
* goalscoring
* goal setting
* goal shooter
* goalside
* goalsneak
* goal square
* goalsquare
* goal suck, goal-suck
* goaltend
* goaltender
* goaltending
* goal third
* goal umpire
* goalward
* golden goal
* in goal, in-goal
* insurance goal
* life goal
* multigoal
* non-goal
* nongoal
* Olympic goal
* open goal
* own goal
* penalty goal
* phantom goal
* ringoal
* shot on goal
* silver goal
* squad goal
* stretch goal
* subgoal
* supergoal
* touch-in-goal
* wondergoal

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: գոլ (gol)
* → Azerbaijani: qol
* → Basque: gol
* → Belarusian: гол (hol)
* → Bulgarian: гол (gol)
* → Catalan: gol
* → Central Kurdish: گۆڵ (goll)
* → Czech: gól
* → Dutch: goal
* → Esperanto: golo
* → French: goal
* → Galician: gol
* → Georgian: გოლი (goli)
* → Greek: γκολ (gkol)
* → Hungarian: gól
* → Ido: golo
* → Indonesian: gol
* → Italian: gol, goal
* → Japanese: ゴール (gōru)
* → Korean: 골 (gol)
* → Luxembourgish: Gol
* → Maori: kōrā
* → Persian: گل (gol)
* → Polish: gol
* → Portuguese: golo, gol (Brazil)
* → Romanian: gol
* → Russian: гол (gol)
* → Serbo-Croatian: го̑л (gȏl)
* → Slovak: gól
* → Slovene: gól
* → Spanish: gol
* → Swahili: goli
* → Telugu: గోలు (gōlu)
* → Turkish: gol
* → Ukrainian: гол (hol)
* → Zazaki: gol

#### Translations
### Verb

goal (third-person singular simple present goals, present participle goaling, simple past and past participle goaled)
* (Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* algo-, Olga, gola, Gola, gaol, algo, Lago, Galo

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowing from English goal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡoːl/, [ɡoːl]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: goal

### Noun

goal m (plural goals, diminutive goaltje n)
* goal, target in sports, especially soccer
* a hit in it, a point scored

#### Synonyms

* (target): doel n
* (hit): doelpunt n

#### Derived terms

* goalpaal
* strafschopgoal

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English goal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡol/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

goal m (plural goals)
* goalkeeper especially in soccer and polo
    Synonyms: gardien de but, gardien m, portier m
* (rare) target in those sports
    Synonym: but m

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* algo

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English goal.

### Noun

goal m (invariable)
* Alternative spelling of gol

### Anagrams

* algo-, gola, lago

## Manx
### Etymology

From Middle Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus.

### Noun

goal m (genitive singular goal, plural goallyn or goaldee)
* Scottish lowlander
* foreigner

#### Related terms

* Goal

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.