pall

See also Páll

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɔːl/
• (US) IPA: /pɔl/, /pɑl/

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  Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Old English pæll, from Latin pallium ‘cloak, covering’.

Noun

pall (plural palls)

1. (archaic) fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes
2. (Christianity) a cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church
3. a heavy canvas, especially laid over a coffin or tomb
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:

     Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]

4. (obsolete) nausea

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Derived terms

• cast a pall
• pallbearer
• tarpaulin

Translations

cloth laid over coffin

• Dutch: lijkkleed (nl)
• Finnish: arkkuvaate (fi)
• French: drap mortuaire (m), poêle (fr) m

• Russian: покров на гробе m

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. To cloak.

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Etymology 2

Aphetism from appall.

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

2. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

   The liquor palls.

   • Addison

     Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *palei-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- 'to speak with a loud voice'. Cognate to Gothic spillon (“to proclaim”).

Verb

pall (first-person singular past tense palla, participle pallë/pallur)

1. o cry, hee-haw

Related terms

• pa
• shpall
• fjalë

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Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɑlʲː/

Noun

pall (genitive palli, partitive palli)

1. (sports) ball

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Swedish

pall[4] = pawl (2)

Pronunciation

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Noun

pall c

1. a stool; a chair without armrests or a back
2. (sports) a podium for prize ceremonies
3. a pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts
4. a pawl (a pin in a ratchet gear)

   att stå pall

   to cope, to stand against pressure

5. (dated, slang) an apple

Declension

Declension of pall 1-4

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pall	pallen	pallar	pallarna
genitive	palls	pallens	pallars	pallarnas

Declension of pall 5

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pall	pallet	pall	pallen
genitive	palls	pallets	palls	pallens

Derived terms

• fotpall
• lastpall
• mjölkpall
• palla
• pallbrytning
• palldragare
• pallning
• pallplacering
• pallplats
• pallvagn
• prispall
• stå pall

References

• pall in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Welsh

Noun

pall m (plural pallon) 

1. tent

Synonyms

• lluest
• lluesty
• pabell