doll

See also: Doll

English

Etymology

From Doll, a popular pet form of Dorothy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɒl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl
• IPA^(key): /dɑl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

doll (plural dolls)

1. A toy in the form of a human.

   Hyponym: action figure

2. (informal) A woman.
3. (US, Australia) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
   • 2008, Stephen King, Willa:

     "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.

4. a good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl
   • 2017, Chunk in "Skate-lebrity", The ZhuZhus

     Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!

5. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

Derived terms

• baby doll
• bisque doll
• blow-up doll
• dollhouse, doll's house
• doll's pram
• doll up
• dolly
• love doll
• porcelain doll
• rag doll
• Russian doll
• sex doll

 

Translations

a toy in the form of a human

• Afrikaans: pop (af)
• Albanian: kukull (sq) f
• Amharic: አሻንጎሊት (ʾäšangolit)
• Arabic: دُمْيَة f (dumya), أُلْعُوبَة f (ʔulʕūba), لُعْبَة (ar) f (luʕba)

  Egyptian Arabic: عروسة f (ʕɑrūsɑ)

  Moroccan Arabic: منيكة f (munika)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: տիկնիկ (hy) (tiknik)
• Assamese: পুতলা (putola)
• Asturian: moñeca (ast) f
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: kukla (az), gəlincik
• Bashkir: ҡурсаҡ (qursaq)
• Basque: panpina
• Belarusian: ля́лька f (ljálʹka)
• Bengali: পুতুল (putul)
• Biatah Bidayuh: patong
• Breton: merc'hodenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: ку́кла (bg) f (kúkla)
• Burmese: အရုပ် (my) (a.rup)
• Catalan: nina (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏁᎶᏗ (anelodi)
• Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公仔 (gung¹ zai²), 娃娃 (waa¹ waa¹), 洋娃娃 (joeng⁴ waa¹ waa¹)

  Dungan: гўнёр (gwni͡or), гўнёнзы (gwni͡onzɨ)

  Mandarin: 玩偶 (zh) (wán'ǒu), 娃娃 (zh) (wáwa), 人形 (zh) (rénxíng), 洋娃娃 (zh) (yángwáwa)

  Min Dong: 娃娃 (uă-uă)

  Min Nan: 尪仔 (zh-min-nan) (ang-á), o͘-lín-gió, 玩偶 (oán-gió / oán-ngó͘), 布尪仔 (pò͘-ang-á)

  Wu: 娃娃 (hhua hhua)

• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Crimean Tatar: qoqla
• Czech: panenka (cs) f, panna (cs) f
• Danish: dukke (da)
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: pop (nl) f
• Esperanto: pupo (eo)
• Estonian: nukk
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: dukka f
• Finnish: nukke (fi)
• French: poupée (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: boneca f, moneca f, boneco m, moneco m, béboda f, nécora (gl) f, monécora f, necre m
• Georgian: დედოფალა (dedopala), თოჯინა (toǯina)
• German: Puppe (de) f
• Greek: κούκλα (el) f (koúkla)

  Ancient: γλήνη f (glḗnē), γλώνη f (glṓnē)

• Gujarati: ઢીંગલી f (ḍhī̃glī), ઢબૂડી f (ḍhabūḍī), પૂતળી f (pūtaḷī)
• Haitian Creole: pope
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: kiʻi pēpē
• Hebrew: בובה \ בֻּבָּה (he) f (buba)
• Hindi: गुड़िया (hi) f (guṛiyā), पुतली (hi) f (putlī)
• Hungarian: baba (hu)
• Hunsrik: Bopp f
• Icelandic: dúkka (is) f, brúða (is) f
• Ido: pupeo (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: boneka (id)
• Interlingua: pupa
• Interlingue:
• Irish: bábóg (ga) f, áilleagán m
• Istriot: poppî
• Italian: bambola (it) f
• Japanese: 人形 (ja) (にんぎょう, ningyō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಗೊಂಬೆ (kn) (gombe)
• Kazakh: қуыршақ (quyrşaq)
• Khmer: កូនក្រមុំ (koun krɑmum), តុក្កតា (km) (tokkaʼtaa)
• Korean: 인형 (ko) (inhyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: куурчак (ky) (kuurcak)
• Lao: ຕຸກກະຕາ (lo) (tuk ka tā)
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• Latin: pūpa f
• Latvian: lelle f
• Lithuanian: lėlė f
• Luganda: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Popp f
• Macedonian: кукла f (kukla)
• Malay: anak patung, boneka, anak-anakan
• Malayalam: പാവ (ml) (pāva)
• Manx: babban m
• Maori: tāre
• Marathi: बाहुली (bāhulī)
• Mirandese: mona f
• Mongolian: хүүхэлдэй (mn) (xüüxeldej)
• Nahuatl: nenetl (nah)
• Navajo: awééshchíín
• Nepali: गुडिया (guḍiyā), पुतली (putlī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dukke (no) m or f, dokke m or f

  Nynorsk: dokke f

• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: monaca (oc) f
• Ojibwe: mazinichigan
• Oriya: କଣ୍ଢାଇ (or) (kaṇḍhāi)
• Pashto: نانځکه (ps) f (nānjᶕka), کوڅکه f (kocáka), ګودۍ f (godə́y), ګوډۍ f (goḍǝ́y), لوڅکه f (lūcaka), لوبتکه f (lobtǝ́ka), ننځکه f (nanjǝ́ka), لينځکه f (linjᶕka)
• Persian: عروسک (fa) ('arusak)
• Polish: lalka (pl) f, kukła (pl) f
• Portuguese: boneca (pt) f, boneco (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਗੁਲਾਬੀ (gulābī)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: păpușă (ro) f
• Romansch: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ку́кла (ru) f (kúkla), ля́лька (ru) f (ljálʹka), пупс (ru) m (pups) (shaped as a small baby), пу́псик (ru) m (púpsik) (diminutive, same as пупс)
• Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
• Sassarese: pupìa
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: liùghag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лу̏тка f, кукла f (regional)

  Roman: lȕtka (sh) f, kukla f (regional)

• Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: බෝනික්කා (bōnikkā)
• Slovak: bábika f
• Slovene: lutka (sl) f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pupa f

• Spanish: muñeca (es) f, muñeco (es) m
• Swedish: docka (sv) c
• Tagalog: manika, tataw
• Tajik: зоча (zoča), лӯхтак (lüxtak), арусак (arusak)
• Tamil: பொம்மை (ta) (pommai)
• Taos: c’ìpána
• Tatar: курчак (tt) (qurçaq)
• Telugu: బొమ్మ (te) (bomma)
• Thai: ตุ๊กตา (th) (dtúk-gà-dtaa)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ལས་པད་ཀོག (a las pad kog)
• Tigrinya: ባምቡላ (bambula)
• Turkish: oyuncak bebek, kukla (tr), bebek (tr), ninik (tr), kavırçak (tr) (may mean 'statue' as well)
• Turkmen: gurjak, emzik, kukla
• Ukrainian: ля́лька (uk) f (ljálʹka)
• Urdu: گڑیا f (guṛiyā)
• Uyghur: قورچاق (qorchaq)

  Cyrillic: қорчақ (qorchaq)

• Uzbek: qoʻgʻirchoq (uz), kukla (uz)
• Vietnamese: búp bê (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: pope (wa) f, popene (wa) f
• Welsh: doli (cy) f, dòl f
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: טאָק f (tok), טעקל n (tekl), ליאַלקע f (lyalke)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• golliwog
• puppet
• teddy, teddy bear
• doll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• LOL'd, LOLd, lol'd, lold

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dōlium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdoʎ]

Noun

doll m (plural dolls)

1. stream, jet
2. pitcher, vase

Derived terms

• endoll

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German

Etymology

Occasionally found in older texts, but chiefly introduced to standard German during the 20th century from Central German and German Low German dialects, from northern Middle High German dol and Middle Low German dol. Doublet of toll (“great; crazy”), which compare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔl/

• Audio:

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Adjective

doll (comparative doller, superlative am dollsten)

1. (informal) firm, hard, forceful, strong (of actions, also of emotions)

   Der Schlag war nicht doll, aber er hat mich genau auf die Nase getroffen. ― The blow wasn't hard, but it hit me right in the nose.

2. (colloquial, chiefly in negation or sarcastically) good, great, satisfactory

   Ich geb ja zu, dass es keine dolle Idee war. ― Well, I do admit it wasn't a very good idea.

3. (colloquial, with Ding) extraordinary, remarkable

   Na, das is’ ja ’n dolles Ding! ― Now, that is some news!

Usage notes

• The word is readily attestable in written representations of spoken and informal German. The sense “firm, hard” is now also found occasionally in more standard prose, chiefly as an adverb (see below).

Adverb

doll

1. (informal) firmly, hard, forcefully, vehemently, strong (of actions, also of emotions)
   • 1995, “Meh' Bier”, in Auf einem Auge blöd, performed by Fettes Brot:

     Wir feiern laut und doll bis alle auf den Tischen springen / Und am Höhepunkt der Party fangen wir laut an zu singen.

     We party hard and loudly until everyone climbs the tables / And in the party's climax we start singing loudly.

   Du musst doller drücken, sonst geht es nicht. ― You need to push harder, otherwise it won't work.

Further reading

• “doll” in Duden online