stool

English

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Etymology

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian/Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Danish/Norwegian stol), from Proto-Indo-European *stālo (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian  (stol') 'table', Serbo-Croatian stol 'table', Slovenian stol 'chair', Albanian kështallë 'crutch', Ancient Greek stolōn 'pillar'), from *stā- 'to stand'. More at stand.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʊəl
• Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

stool (plural stools)

1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
2. A footstool.
3. (chiefly medicine) Feces; excrement.
4. (archaic) A decoy.
5. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
6. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (literally and figuratively) Throne.
7. (obsolete) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
8. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

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9. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:feces

Derived terms

• footstool
• stool pigeon
• stoolie
• window stool

Translations

a seat

• Afrikaans: stoel (af)
• Armenian: աթոռակ (hy) (at’oṙak) 
• Asturian: taburete (ast) m
• Catalan: tamboret (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Min Nan: 椅頭 (nan) (í-thâu), 椅頭仔 (nan) (í-thâu-á), 椅仔 (nan) (í-á)

• Czech: stolička (cs) f
• Dutch: kruk (nl) f, barkruk (nl) f
• Esperanto: tabureto (eo)
• Estonian: taburet (et), järi (et), pink (et), pukk (et) ('simple seat'); jalapink (et)
• Faroese: krakkur (fo) m
• Finnish: palli (fi), jakkara (fi)
• French: tabouret (fr) m, tabouret-bar (fr)
• Galician: meso (gl) m, tallo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hocker (de) m
• Greek: σκαμνί (el) (skamní) n , σκίμπους (el) (skímbous) m 
• Hindi: तिपाई (hi) m and f

• Hungarian: bárszék (hu), zsámoly (hu)
• Icelandic: kollur (is) m
• Ido: tabureto (io)
• Italian: sgabello (it) m
• Jèrriais: scabelle f, tabouothet m
• Khmer: ជើងម៉ា (km) (cəəng maa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Hocker (lb) m
• Macedonian: столче (mk) (stólče) n, коклица (mk) (kóklica) f, табуретка (mk) (taburétka) f (upholstered)
• Norwegian: krakk (no) m
• Portuguese: banco (pt) m
• Romanian: taburet (ro) n
• Russian: табурет (ru) (taburét) m , табуретка (ru) (taburétka) m 
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: taburete (es) m, silla (es) f
• Swahili: kiroto (sw), jarari (sw)
• Swedish: pall (sv) c
• Thai: ตั่ง (th) (dtàng)

footstool — see footstool

excrement

• Czech: stolice (cs) f
• Dutch: stoelgang (nl) m
• Estonian: iste (et), väljaheide (et), roe (et), ekskrement (et)
• Finnish: uloste (fi)
• French: selle (fr) f
• German: Stuhl (de) m, Stuhlgang (de) m, Exkrement (de) n, Exkret (de) n, Kot (de) m
• Greek: κόπρανα (el) (kóprana) n pl 
• Hungarian: széklet (hu)
• Latin: excrēmentum (la) n
• Macedonian: столица (mk) (stólica) f

• Romanian: scaun (ro) n
• Russian: стул (ru) (stul) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: столица (sh) f

  Roman: stolica (sh) f

• Slovak: stolica (sk)
• Spanish: excremento (es) m, heces (es) f pl
• Swahili: kiroto (sw)
• Swedish: avföring (sv) c

a decoy

• Russian: приманка (ru) f (primanka)

• Swahili: kiroto (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: butaca (es) f

• Swahili: kiroto (sw)

See also

• chair
• seat

Anagrams

• loots
• tools

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French

Noun

stool m and f (plural stools)

1. (Canada, slang, derogatory) A denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie.
   • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, ISBN 2-89021-363-3, page 199:

     "Grégoire protesta; il n'était pas un stool". — Gregory protested; he was no stoolie.

Derived terms

• stooleux