# gel
## Translingual
### Symbol

gel
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fakkanci.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Fakkanci terms

## English
### Etymology 1

Coined by Thomas Graham in the mid 19th century as a clipping of gelatin, from French gélatine, from Italian gelatina, diminutive form of gelata (“iced”), from Latin gelata, past participle of gelo (“to freeze”), from gelu (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). For the meaning development compare with Russian сту́день (stúdenʹ, “aspic, jelly, gel”) related to студёный (studjónyj, “cold”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: jĕl, IPA: /d͡ʒɛl/, [d͡ʒɛɫ]
* Rhymes: -ɛl
* Homophones: jel, jell
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

gel (countable and uncountable, plural gels)
* A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
** 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
* Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
* A film of flexible transparent plastic (such as acetate, celluloid, or cellophane) suitable for making superimpositions or diapositives (image to overlay on other images, especially for overhead projectors); a digital virtual equivalent of this.

##### Derived terms

* aerogel
* alcogel
* biogel
* chalcogel
* cryogel
* energy gel
* ferrogel
* gel bracelet
* gelcoat
* gel electrophoresis
* gelless
* gel pen
* hair gel
* hand gel
* hydrogel
* incendigel
* ionogel
* light gel
* macrogel
* microgel
* minigel
* mucigel
* nanogel
* organogel
* pepper gel
* piping gel
* pseudogel
* semenogelin
* shaving gel
* shower gel
* silica gel
* softgel
* sol-gel
* sonogel
* thermal gel
* thermogel
* tightening gel
* xerogel

##### See also

For more information on classification of colloids, see Wikipedia article on colloids

#### Verb

gel (third-person singular simple present gels, present participle gelling, simple past and past participle gelled)
* (transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
** 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)‎:It ended, as it so often does, with that familiar smile. Cristiano Ronaldo – gelled hair, dazzling teeth, magic in his boots – will never forget the night he scored the 600th goal of an almost implausible career.
* (intransitive) To become a gel.
* (intransitive) To develop a rapport.
    He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.
* (intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.
    We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.

##### Derived terms

* nongelling
* thermogelling

##### Translations
#### See also

* aerosol
* colloid
* emulsion
* foam
* sol

### Etymology 2

Imitative of upper-class British pronunciation of girl.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: gĕl, IPA: /ɡɛl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

gel (plural gels)
* (British, slang) A girl.
** 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:"Now pray don't be troublesome, my dear gel," said Uncle Andrew.

### Anagrams

* leg, leg., ElG, LGE, lge, ELG

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gel, from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒɛl]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒɛl]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gel m (plural gels)
* ice
    Synonym: glaç
* gel

#### Related terms

* gelar

### Further reading

* “gel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English gel.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): zeu$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zeu$^1$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzeu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɛːu̯⁵⁵/

### Verb

gel
* (Cantonese) to gel
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) to predict with confidence

#### Derived terms

* gel甲
* gel頭 / gel头

### See also

* 嘴gel gel

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* ghéel (Sette Comuni)

### Etymology

From Middle High German gël, from Old High German gelo, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (“yellow”). Cognate with German gelb, English yellow.

### Adjective

gel
* (Luserna) yellow

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒɛl/, /dʒɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gel m or n (plural gels)
* gel (suspension of solid in liquid)
* gel (cosmetic preparation)

### Anagrams

* leg

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡeːl/

### Adjective

gel
* yellow

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin gelū, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). For the sense of "gel", compare English gel; compare gélatine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gel m (plural gels)
* frost
    Synonym: givre
* gel (suspension of solid in liquid)
* gel (cosmetic preparation)
* (colloquialism, Canada) fall freeze
** (seasons, time) freeze-up, one of the 6 seasons of high latitudes; the freeze.

#### Antonyms

* dégel

#### Derived terms

* gel hydroalcoolique
* gélifier
* gelivure

#### Related terms

* dégel
* gélatine
* gelée
* geler

#### Descendants

* → Persian: ژل (žel)

#### See also

* glace

### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

gel (strong nominative masculine singular geler, comparative geler, superlative am gelsten)
* (obsolete) Alternative spelling of gehl, alternative form of gelb (“yellow”)

#### Declension
## German Low German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡeːl/

### Adjective

gel
* Alternative spelling of geel

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /cɛːl/
* Rhymes: -ɛːl

### Noun

gel n (genitive singular gels, no plural)
* gel

#### Declension
## Nalca
### Noun

gel
* woman
* wife

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* jel

### Contraction

gel
* Contraction of ge + le (I […] it)

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gelos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʲel/

### Adjective

gel
* bright
* clear
* white

#### Declension

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

#### Derived terms

* aingel

#### Descendants

* Irish: geal
* Manx: gial
* Scottish Gaelic: geal

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Norse
### Verb

gel
* first-person singular present active indicative of gala

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (“frothing, tempestuous, wanton”). Cognate with Old English gāl, Dutch geil (“salacious, lustful”), Old High German geil (German geil (“lustful”)), Old Norse geiligr (“beautiful”).

### Adjective

gēl (comparative gēloro, superlative gēlost)
* wanton, lustful; wicked

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English gel.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒɛw/ [ˈʒɛʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʒɛl/ [ˈʒɛɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʒɛl/ [ˈʒɛɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈʒɛ.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
* Hyphenation: gel

### Noun

gel m (plural géis or geles)
* gel (suspension of solid in liquid)

### References

* ↑ “gel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gel.

### Noun

gel n (plural geluri)
* gel

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From gelatina or borrowed from French gel. Compare English gel, gelatine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxel/ [ˈxel]
* Rhymes: -el
* Syllabification: gel

### Noun

gel m (plural geles)
* gel (semi-solid colloid of a solid and a liquid)
* gel (cosmetic gel, especially body wash)

#### Derived terms

* aerogel
* bolígrafo de gel
* gel de baño
* gel de ducha
* pluma de gel

### Further reading

* “gel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English girl.

### Noun

gel
* girl

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɟɛl/, [ɟæl]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gel
* second-person singular imperative of gelmek