# fol
## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɔl]

### Verb

fol
* second-person singular imperative of flas

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 科 (fo$^1$)

### Etymology

Clipping of English follow.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): fo$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fo$^1$
*** Yale: fō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fo$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɔː⁵⁵/

### Noun

fol
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) follower count

#### Synonyms

* follow

### Verb

fol
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) to follow

#### Synonyms

* follow

#### Derived terms

* unfol

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔl/

### Adjective

fol
* Alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin follis (“bellows, purse”), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔl/

### Noun

fol m (plural foles)
* bag (of bagpipes)
* bellows
* bag, sack, goatskin
    home pequeno, fol de velenoa little man, a bag of poison (proverb)
* (archaic) a madman

#### Derived terms

* afoletar
* encher o fol
* folgos

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fol”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fol”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

Derived from French folle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fol/

### Noun

fol (masculine fou)
* (feminine) madwoman (a mad, crazy female)

### Adjective

fol (masculine fou)
* (feminine) mad, crazy, insane
    Synonym: pagli

## Middle English
### Noun

fol
* Alternative form of fole (“fool”)

### Adjective

fol
* Alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French fol.

### Adjective

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)
* mad; insane
* foolish; silly

### Noun

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)
* madman (a person who is insane)

#### Descendants

* French: fol, fou
** Louisiana Creole: fou

## Old French
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin follis, follem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔl/
* Rhymes: -ɔl

### Adjective

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)
* mad; insane
* foolish; silly

#### Related terms

* folie
* folement

#### Descendants

* Middle French: fol
** French: fol, fou
*** Louisiana Creole: fou
* Norman: fo m, folle f
* → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
** English: fool
** Geordie English: fuil, feul
** Scots: fule, fuil
** → Welsh: ffôl
* → Old Danish: fol
** Danish: fjols

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

### Adjective

fol
* mad; insane; crazy

#### Related terms

* folamen
* folor

#### Descendants

* Occitan: hòu, fòl, fòu

## Polabian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German voll. Compare Low German vull, Dutch vol, English full, Danish fuld, Swedish full.

### Adverb

fol
* full
    Mon jă folThe moon is full

### References

* Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “fol”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1095
* Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “fol”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 61
* Olesch, Reinhold (1973) “vol”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 3: T – Z, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1295

## Russenorsk
### Etymology

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk full, either through its northern dialectal form (see foill), either through Russian accent (in both cases the vowel changes into [u]-sound with different length).

### Pronunciation

Possible examples:
* IPA: /fuʎ/ (Northern Norwegian accent)
* IPA: /fulʲ/ (Russian accent)

### Adjective

fol
* full
    Moja fol MagaMy stomach is full

### References

* Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

## Spanish
### Noun

fol
* Abbreviation of folio.

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* fala, hal, hol, höl, holu (dialectal)

### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فول (fol, “a nest-egg”), from Greek φώλι (fóli, “the act or place of incubation, nest”), from Ancient Greek φωλεός (phōleós, “den, animal burrow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfoɫ/
* Hyphenation: fol

### Noun

fol (definite accusative folu, plural follar)
* (colloquial) An egg or egg-shaped object placed at a spot for a hen to lay her eggs there; a nest egg.

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
fol
follar
definite accusative
folu
folları
dative
fola
follara
locative
folda
follarda
ablative
foldan
follardan
genitive
folun
folların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
folum
follarım
2nd singular
folun
folların
3rd singular
folu
folları
1st plural
folumuz
follarımız
2nd plural
folunuz
follarınız
3rd plural
folları
folları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
folumu
follarımı
2nd singular
folunu
follarını
3rd singular
folunu
follarını
1st plural
folumuzu
follarımızı
2nd plural
folunuzu
follarınızı
3rd plural
follarını
follarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
foluma
follarıma
2nd singular
foluna
follarına
3rd singular
foluna
follarına
1st plural
folumuza
follarımıza
2nd plural
folunuza
follarınıza
3rd plural
follarına
follarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
folumda
follarımda
2nd singular
folunda
follarında
3rd singular
folunda
follarında
1st plural
folumuzda
follarımızda
2nd plural
folunuzda
follarınızda
3rd plural
follarında
follarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
folumdan
follarımdan
2nd singular
folundan
follarından
3rd singular
folundan
follarından
1st plural
folumuzdan
follarımızdan
2nd plural
folunuzdan
follarınızdan
3rd plural
follarından
follarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
folumun
follarımın
2nd singular
folunun
follarının
3rd singular
folunun
follarının
1st plural
folumuzun
follarımızın
2nd plural
folunuzun
follarınızın
3rd plural
follarının
follarının :

#### Derived terms

* fol yok yumurta yok (“don't count your chickens before they hatch”)
* folluk

#### Related terms

* pifoli

#### See also

* çiftlik
* tavuk
* yumurta
* yumurtlamak
* yuva

### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1401
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fol”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “fol”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fol”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1606
* Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎ (in German), Vienna: Academy Press, § 581, pages 135–136

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

### Numeral

fol
* four
** 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 23:Folna fol binos degmäl.Four times four is sixteen.

#### Derived terms

* folam
* folüm

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔl/

### Noun

fol
* soft mutation of of bol

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

fol
* full (not empty)
* full of
* whole, full, complete

#### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* folwoeksen

#### Further reading

* “fol”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011