flagpole

See also: flag pole

English

Alternative forms

• flag pole

Etymology

From flag +‎ pole.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈflæɡˌpoʊl/

• Audio (US):

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several flagpoles with flags

Noun

flagpole (plural flagpoles)

1. A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

Synonyms

• flagstaff

Derived terms

• run something up the flagpole
• send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

Translations

pole for flags

• Afrikaans: vlagpaal
• Albanian: shtizë flamuri
• Amharic: የባንዲራ መስቀያ (yäbandira mäsḳäya)
• Arabic: سَارِيَةْ العَلَم m (sāriyat al-ʕalam)
• Armenian: դրոշակաձող (hy) (drošakajoġ)
• Azerbaijani: bayraq dirəyi
• Basque: haga, masta
• Belarusian: флагшто́к m (flahštók)
• Bengali: পতাকাদণ্ড (potakadonḍo)
• Breton: gwern (br) f
• Bulgarian: флагщо́к m (flagštók)
• Burmese: အလံတိုင် (my) (a.lamtuing)
• Catalan: asta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 旗杆 (kei⁴ gon¹)

  Mandarin: 旗杆 (zh) (qígān)

• Czech: vlajkový stožár m, žerď (cs) f
• Danish: flagstang (da) c
• Dutch: vlaggenstok (nl) m, vlaggenmast (nl) m
• Esperanto: flagstango
• Estonian: lipuvarras
• Finnish: lippusalko (fi)
• French: mât de drapeau m, mât (fr) m
• Galician: hasta (gl) f, mastro (gl) m
• Georgian: ფლაგშტოკი (plagšṭoḳi)
• German: Fahnenmast (de) m, Fahnenstange (de) f
• Greek: κοντάρι σημαίας n (kontári simaías)
• Hawaiian: kia hae
• Hebrew: מוֹט הַדֶגֶל (he) m (mot hadegel)
• Hindi: ध्वजदंड m (dhvajdaṇḍ)
• Hungarian: zászlórúd (hu)
• Icelandic: stöng (is) f, flaggstöng f
• Ido: flag-stango
• Indonesian: tiang bendera
• Irish: crann brataí m
• Italian: pennone (it) m
• Japanese: 旗竿 (ja) (はたざお, hatazao)
• Kazakh: жалаусап (jalausap), тутұғыр (tutūğyr)
• Khmer: ដងទង់ (km) (dɑɑng tŭəng)
• Korean: 깃대 (gitdae)
• Kyrgyz: флагшток (flagştok)
• Lao: ເສົາທຸງ (sao thung)
• Latvian: karoga kārts f
• Lithuanian: vėliavos stiebas m, flagštokas m
• Lü: ᦅᧃᦒᦲᧉ (kanthii²)
• Macedonian: јарбол m (jarbol)
• Malay: tiang bendera
• Maltese: arblu għall-bandiera m
• Maori: pou kara, pou haki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flaggstang (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: flaggstong f

• Persian: میله پرچم (fa) (milah-e parčam)
• Polish: flagsztok (pl) m, maszt flagowy m
• Portuguese: mastro (pt) m
• Romanian: catarg de steag n, catarg (ro) n
• Russian: дре́вко (ru) n (drévko), флагшто́к (ru) m (flagštók)
• Scottish Gaelic: bratchrann m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јарбол за заставу m, јарбол m

  Roman: jarbol za zastavu m, jarbol (sh) m

• Slovak: stožiar m, vlajkový stožiar m
• Slovene: jarbol za zastavu m, jarbol m
• Spanish: asta (es) f, astabandera f, mástil (es) m
• Swedish: flaggstång (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagdan ng bandila
• Tajik: сутуни парчам (sutun-i parčam), чӯби байракбардорӣ (čüb-i bayrakbardori)
• Tamil: கொடிக்கம்பம் (ta) (koṭikkampam)
• Thai: เสาธง (th) (sǎo-tong)
• Turkish: bayrak direği (tr)
• Ukrainian: флагшто́к m (flahštók)
• Uzbek: flagshtok (uz)
• Venetan: anténa f
• Vietnamese: cột cờ (vi)
• Volapük: stänastafäd
• Welsh: polyn fflag m
• Yiddish: פֿאָנענמאַסט (fonenmast)

Verb

flagpole (third-person singular simple present flagpoles, present participle flagpoling, simple past and past participle flagpoled)

1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
   • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity:

     I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flagpole.