# tal
## Amal
### Noun

tal
* woman

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan tal, from Latin tālis. Compare Occitan tal, French tel, Spanish tal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtal]

### Adjective

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tals)
* such (like this, that)
    Synonym: semblant

#### Alternative forms

* aital (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* com a tal
* i tal
* tal com
* tal dit tal fet
* tal faràs, tal trobaràs
* tal i tal
* tal qual
* talment

### Adverb

tal
* like that, in that way

#### Derived terms

* per tal de
* per tal que
* tal com

### Pronoun

tal
* anything, whatever

### References

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

## Cimbrian
### Noun

tal n
* valley

### References

* Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Coatepec Nahuatl
### Pronoun

tal
* you

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

tal
* willow

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tall, Swedish tal, Dutch tal.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tal/, [ˈtˢal]

#### Noun

tal n (singular definite tallet, plural indefinite tal)
* number
* figure
* digit
* numeral
* (after a multiple of 100) Denoting a century.
    Han levede i 1800-tallet.
       He lived in the 19th century.

##### Declension
#### References

* “tal” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːˀl/, [ˈtˢæˀl]

#### Verb

tal
* imperative of tale

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch tal, from Old Dutch *tal, from Proto-West Germanic *tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑl

### Determiner

tal
* (~ van) numerous, many, lots
    Je hebt tal van mogelijkheden - You have lots of possibilities

### Noun

tal n (plural tallen)
* a number
* a quantity

#### Usage notes

Tal is almost never used to say 'number', getal and nummer are used instead.

#### Derived terms

* aantal
* jaartal
* overtal
* talloos
* talrijk
* tiental
* tweetal
* viertal

### Anagrams

* alt, lat

## Eastern Durango Nahuatl
### Noun

tal
* land

## Epigraphic Mayan
### Verb

tal
* to come

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰɛaːl/
* Rhymes: -ɛaːl

### Noun

tal n (genitive singular tals, plural tøl)
* number
* (grammar) number

#### Declension
## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin talis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtal]

### Pronoun

tal
* such
    Nunca tal vin ― I've never seen such [a thing]

#### Derived terms

* talmente

### Adjective

tal m or f (plural tales)
* such
    Nunca tal cousa vin ― I've never seen such a thing

### References

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

## Highland Puebla Nahuatl
### Noun

tal
* land

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰaːl/
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Noun

tal n (genitive singular tals, nominative plural töl)
* speech, talk, the act of talking
* a conversation
* count, number
    Mennirnir voru hundrað talsins.The men were a hundred all told.

#### Declension
### See also

* búktal
* vita ekki aura sinna tal (“to wallow in money”)
* taka engu tali (“to be beyond description”)
* berast í tal (“to crop up in a conversation, to be mentioned”)
* færa í tal (“to bring something up”)
* ná tali af (“to get to talk to something”)
* vera á tali (“of a phone; to be engaged, to be busy”)
* viðtal
* talsetja
* talsetning

## Italian
### Determiner

tal (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of tale

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tal (“such”), from Latin tālis. Compare French tel, Galician tal, Portuguese tal, and Spanish tal.

### Adjective

tal (Hebrew spelling טאל)
* such (a)
** 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎, Editions Vidas Largas, page 325:A tal punto ke dizia : "En Espanya no ay ke yo i la kanalya ke semos frankofilos".To such a point that it was said: 'In Spain there is nobody but me and the scoundrel [to] whom we are Francophiles.'

### Adverb

tal (Hebrew spelling טאל)
* such (the likes of which)
** 2017 June 12, Amor Ayala, Los sefardíes de Bulgaria‎, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 417:En esta gezera se firmava kada miembro en entrando komo tal en la ḥevra.In this decree each member was being signed by entering as such in society.

### References

* 1 2 “tal”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic طَالَ (ṭāla).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaːl/

### Verb

tal (imperfect jtul, past participle mitul, verbal noun tul)
* to become long, to become prolonged, to last
    Synonym: dam

#### Conjugation
## Mangas
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tāl/

### Noun

tal
* sun

### References

* Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -al

### Adjective

tal
* sour

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

tal
* imperative of tale

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tal n (definite singular talet, indefinite plural tal, definite plural tala or talene)
* form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tall

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse tal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʰɐ̞ːl], [tʰɐ̞ːɽ]

### Noun

tal n (definite singular talet, indefinite plural tal, definite plural tala)
* number, numeral

#### Derived terms

* dødstal
* folketal
* romartal
* talrik

### See also

* tall (Bokmål)

### References

* “tal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tālu, from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (“deception, deceit, persecution”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to take aim, calculate, damage, count”). Cognate with Latin dolus (“deception, strategem, trap”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑːl/

### Noun

tāl f
* evil-speaking, calumny, disparagement, slander
* (religious) blasphemy
* reproach
* scorn, derision, mocking

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Derived terms

* tǣlan

#### Related terms

* tǣl
* *tǣle
* tǣlnes

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* tall

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin tālis. Cognate with Old French tel and Old Spanish tal.

### Adjective

tal (indefinite)
* such (kind of)
    Synonym: atal
** 13th-14th centuries, Denis of Portugal, “Un tal ome sei eu, ai ben-talhada”‎:Um tal home sei que preto sente / de si morte certamenteI know one such man who feels unwell, [and he is] certainly dying.

#### Descendants

* Galician: tal
* Portuguese: tal

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dalą, whence also Old English dæl, Old Norse dalr.

### Noun

tal n or m
* valley

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: tal
** Alemannic German: Tall
** German: Tal
** Hunsrik: Daal
** Luxembourgish: Dall
** Mòcheno: tol
** Pennsylvania German: Daal
** Yiddish: טאָל (tol)

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”). Cognate with Old English tæl, Old Saxon gital.

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈtɑl/

### Noun

tal n (genitive tals, plural tǫl)
* a talk, parley, conversation
** Ólafs saga Helga 87, in 1830, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 196:
    […] kom hún enn til konúngs, ok sátu þau jarl öll samt á tali, […]
    […] but she came to the king, and yet sat all the jarls in talks, […]
* speech, language
** Stjórn 61, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 204:
    Sneri hann þa nafni Josephs ok kalladi hann heimsins hialpara upp aa Egiptalandz tal ok tungu.
    He turned then, speaking Joseph's name and calling him home for help in speech and tongue of Egyptian lands.
* a tale, number, enumeration
** Barlaams Saga 137, in 1851, R. Keyser, C. R. Unger, Barlaams ok Josaphats saga. Christiania, page 133:
    Hon er oc i tale með oðrum himintunglum, […]
    She is in that number with other heavenly bodies, […]
* (especially in compounds) a tale, list, series
** Gulaþings-lög 301, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 99:
    […] þa ſkolo fara a þing oc bioða ſic i tal með oðrom monnom.
    […] then shall go to the Thing and enter the lists with other men.

#### Derived terms

* talandi (“elocution”)
* talhlýðinn (“credulous”)
* talsverðr (“worth counting, considerable”)
* talvíss (“wise in numbers”)

#### Related terms

* tala (“talk, speech”)
* tala (“to talk, speak”)
* tali (“teller, counter”)

#### Descendants

* Danish: tal n
* Elfdalian: tal n
* Faroese: tal n
* Icelandic: tal n
* Norwegian Bokmål: tall n
* Norwegian Nynorsk: tal n
* Swedish: tal n (Old Swedish tal)

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tal”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 624
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tal”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 432; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin tālis. Cognate with Old French tel and Old Galician-Portuguese tal.

### Adjective

tal (indefinite)
* same
    Synonym: atal
* such (this kind of)
    Synonym: atal
** c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 24v:Et los filoſofos precian la mucho por que ella a tal uertud que aquel que la trae conſigo aguzal mucho el entendimiento ⁊ el engenno, aſſi que ninguna coſa noles grieue de entender nin de aprender.And philosophers prize it greatly because it has such vertue that, of he who has it with him, it sharpens their understanding and ingenuity, so that nothing is difficult for them to either understand or learn.

### Adverb

tal
* (just) like; (exactly) like
** c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 50r. a.:Señor dios de iſrꝉ no a tal / dios en los cielos cuemo tu nĩ de yuſo en la tierra […]Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in either the heavens or on earth […]
* such (the likes of which)
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 14v:I ẏo fare cras plouer pedriſco mui grãt. e nõ fue tal en egipto. des q̃ fue poblada troa agora. e tu aplega todo lo tuẏo q̃ es en el cãpo. ⁊ los q̃ nõ ſe acogierẽ alas caſas morrã del pedriſco.“[…] And tomorrow I shall make it rain a great hailstorm such that Egypt has never seen since it was settled until now. And you, bring inside all that you have in the field. And those who do not take shelter in their homes will die from the hail.”

### Pronoun

tal (indefinite)
* same (aforesaid thing)
** c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 56r.:Et fallan la ſiempre en forma de redoma ⁊ parece dentro en ella figura de ſanguſuela. ⁊ ſi la quebrantan en cada pedaço fallá otro tal.And they always find it shaped like a vase, and inside it seems to have what looks like a leech, and if they break it, in each piece they find the same.

#### Descendants

* Ladino: tal, טאל
* Spanish: tal

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “tal”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 486

## Pipil
### Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”)

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: /ˈtaːl/
* (Izalco) IPA: /ˈtal/
* (Jicalapa) IPA: /ˈtaɬʲ/

### Noun

tāl (plural tālmet or tajtāl)
* land, ground
    Tiktukat ne shupanmil keman ne tal waktukFor the rainy season, we plant the corn when the ground has dried up
* earth, dirt, soil
    Tikwiwitat iwan tal pal tiktukat ka senkakWe uproot it keeping some soil (on the roots) to plant it somewhere else
* terrain, field, region, country
    Ashan ne Nawat semaya munutza tik ini talNow Nawat (Pipil) is only spoken in this country

## Pochutec
### Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”).

### Noun

tal
* land

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtal/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: tal

### Noun

tal m inan
* thallium (chemical element, Tl, atomic number 81)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* tal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European *tód (“demonstrative pronoun”). Displaced collateral form atal.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtaw/ [ˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtal/ [ˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtal/ [ˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈta.li/
* Homophone: tau (Brazil)
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: tal

### Determiner

tal m or f (plural tais)
* such

#### Derived terms

* e tal
* que tal

### Noun

tal m or f by sense (plural tais)
* one
    Percebi que ele era o tal. ― I realised he was the one.

### Adjective

tal m or f (plural tais)
* (often with de) used to express that somebody doesn't know or care about a person being talked about
    Um tal de John estava te procurando. ― Some John guy was looking for you.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tal.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French thalle.

### Noun

tal n (plural taluri)
* thallus

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

Inherited from Old Spanish tal (“such”), from Latin tālis. Compare French tel, Galician tal, Ladino tal, and Portuguese tal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtal/ [ˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: tal

### Adjective

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)
* such
    Synonym: (obsolete) atal
    No hay tal cosa como los monstruos.There's no such thing as monsters.

### Pronoun

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)
* such
    Es la jefa, y es importante que la trates como tal.She's the boss, and it's important that you treat her as such.

#### Derived terms

* a tal punto que
* como si tal cosa
* como tal
* con tal de
* con tal que
* hasta tal punto que
* no haber tal
* otro de tal
* qué tal
* tal como
* tal cual vez
* tal día como hoy
* tal o cual
* tal para cual
* tal por cual
* tal vez
* tal y como
* talmente
* voto a tal
* y tal

### Further reading

* “tal”, 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
* “tal”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish tal, from Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tal n
* (mathematics) number
    Hyponyms: naturligt tal, heltal, rationellt tal, reellt tal, komplext tal, hyperkomplext tal, superreellt tal, bråktal, blandat tal, kardinaltal, defekt tal, perfekt tal, primtal, sammansatt tal, vänskapliga tal, ymnigt tal, algebraiskt tal, transcendent tal
    reellt talreal number
* (school) An exercise involving calculations given to the pupil, especially at lower levels.
    Hur många tal fick ni i matteläxa idag?How many math exercises did you have as homework today?
* speech; the ability to use vocalizations to communicate
* speech; a long oral message given publicly
* (as a suffix) around (for round numbers)
    ett 30-tal demonstranteraround 30 protesters
* (as a suffix, in the definite "talet") the specified decade, century, or (rarely) millennium
    åttiotalet / 80-taletthe eighties
    nollnolltalet / 00-taletthe 00s
    1890-taletthe 1890s
    det sena 60-taletthe late sixties
    artonhunradratalet / 1800-taletthe nineteenth century

#### Derived terms

* avtal
* brandtal
* flyttal
* komma på tal
* komma till tals
* medeltal
* otal
* talande (tungomålstalande)
* talare
* talför
* talförmåga
* tungotal
* vara tal om

#### Related terms

* tala
* tälja

#### See also

* -årsåldern
* tvåtusental

### References

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

### Anagrams

* lat, lat.

## Tatar
### Noun

tal
* willow

## Tzotzil
### Pronunciation

* (Zinacantán) IPA: /tʰäl/

### Verb

tal
* (intransitive) to come
    ¿Bu likemot tal?Where do you come from?(literally, “Where have you come?”)

#### Synonyms

* (Zinacantán) yul

#### Derived terms

(Nouns)
* talel

### References

* Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
* Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

## Welsh
### Etymology 1

Early modern borrowing of English tall

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tal/

#### Adjective

tal (feminine singular tal, plural talion, equative taled, comparative talach, superlative talaf)
* tall

##### Antonyms

* byr

##### Derived terms

* taldra

### Etymology 2

Proto-Celtic *talos, from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”). Compare Irish talamh, Latin tellūs, Sanskrit तल (tala).

#### Alternative forms

* tâl

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːl/

#### Noun

tal m (plural talau or taloedd)
* end, edge
* forehead, brow, eyebrow

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taːl/

#### Noun

tal m (plural taliadau)
* Alternative spelling of tâl (“pay, payment”)

### Mutation

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

## West Frisian
### Etymology

Probably ultimately related to taal (“language”), which see. Cognate with Dutch tal, English tale, German Zahl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔl/

### Noun

tal n (plural tallen)
* number, amount
    Synonym: oantal
* (grammar) grammatical number

#### Derived terms

* iental
* meartal

#### Further reading

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

## Yucatec Maya
### Verb

tal (intransitive)
* Obsolete spelling of taal.