# pol
## Translingual
### Symbol

pol
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Polish.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Polish terms

## English
### Etymology

Clipping of politician

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /pɑl/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒl

### Noun

pol (plural pols)
* (informal) A politician.
** 1993 October 31, Maureen Dowd, “The WASP Descendancy”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.
** 2008, Frank P. Vazzano, Politician Extraordinaire, page 174:The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.

### Anagrams

* PLO, Lop, OLP, lop, LPO

## Asturian
### Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

### Contraction

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)
* for the, by the

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin polus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔl]
* Rhymes: -ɔl

### Noun

pol m (plural pols)
* pole
    el pol Sud ― the South Pole
    pol magnètic ― magnetic pole

#### Related terms

* polar

### Further reading

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

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -oːl

### Noun

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)
* pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
* a pole in geometry.
* pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch pol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔl/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pol
* Rhymes: -ɔl

### Noun

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)
* a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
* (Belgium) a hand

#### Derived terms

* graspol

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: pol

## Extremaduran
### Preposition

pol
* by
    Esti libru hue escritu pol Gabriel García Márquez.This book was written by Gabriel García Márquez.
* through
* for

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔl]
* Hyphenation: pol

### Etymology 1

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

#### Adjective

pol
* (colloquial) full
    Synonym: penuh
* (colloquial) maximum
    Synonym: maksimal

##### Alternative forms

* pul

### Etymology 2

From English poll or Dutch poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

#### Noun

pol (plural pol-pol)
* poll, a survey of a particular group

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

pol (plural pol-pol)
* (nonstandard) Nonstandard form of pul.

### Further reading

* “pol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle French pole, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pˠɔlˠ]

### Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)
* (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
pol
poil
vocative
a phoil
a phola
genitive
poil
pol
dative
pol
poil
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an pol
na poil
genitive
an phoil
na bpol
dative
leis an bpol don phol
leis na poil :

#### Derived terms

* An Pol Thuaidh (“the North Pole”)
* aonpholach (“unipolar”, adjective)
* fopholach (“subpolar”, adjective)
* pol ainmhíoch (“animal pole”)
* pol cothaitheach (“vegetal pole”)
* pol deimhneach (“positive pole”)
* pol diúltach (“negative pole”)
* polach (“polar”, adjective)

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpol/, [ˈpɔɫ̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpol/, [ˈpɔl]

### Interjection

pol
* by Pollux!, truly!, really!
** c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina :Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

#### See also

* edepol

### References

* “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pol”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "pol", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)
* pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
* a pole in geometry.
* pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

#### Derived terms

* nordpol
* Polhavet

### References

* “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puːl/

### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

#### Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)
* pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
* a pole in geometry.
* pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

##### Derived terms

* nordpol
* Polhavet

### Etymology 2

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

#### Noun

pol n (definite singular polet, indefinite plural pol, definite plural pola)
* alcohol monopoly (a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing some or all alcoholic beverages)
** the institution itself (of alcohol monopoly)
** a retailer licensed (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

### Etymology 3

Unknown. See also pole.

#### Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, uncountable)
* a high ball caught by hand(s) before touching the ground
    Synonyms: hys, lyr

##### Derived terms

* ta pol

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pol
* present tense of pola and pole

### References

* ↑ “pol” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* PLO

## Old English
### Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poːl/

### Noun

pōl m
* pool

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* English: pool

## Old Slovak
### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish płeć.

### Noun

pol f
* gender

### Further reading

* Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “pol”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

## Romagnol
### Noun

pol m (invariable) (Bassa Romagna)
* chicken

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pôːl/

#### Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
* pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

##### Derived terms

* polarni

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* spȏl (Croatia)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pôːl/

#### Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
* (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
* (Bosnia, Serbia) gender

##### Derived terms

* polni

### Etymology 3

From pȍla.

#### Alternative forms

* pȏ

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pôːl/

#### Particle

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)
* (Croatia) half
    sat i pol ― an hour and a half
    tri i pol mjeseca ― three and a half months

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: pool

### Noun

pol c
* a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically, such as the North Pole or South Pole.
* a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
* (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

#### Related terms

* batteripol
* magnetpol
* nordpol
* polär
* polarcirkel
* polarexpedition
* polarforskning
* sydpol

### References

* pol in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* pol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)