flagpole

See also: flag pole

English

Alternative forms

• flag pole

Etymology

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

Translations

pole for flags

• Afrikaans: vlagpaal
• Albanian: shtizë flamuri
• Amharic: የባንዲራ መስቀያ (yäbandira mäsḳäya)
• Arabic: سارية العلم m (sāriyat al-ʿalam)
• Armenian: դրոշակաձող (hy) (drošakajoł)
• Azeri: bayraq dirəyi
• Basque: haga, masta
• Belarusian: флагшток m (flahštok)
• Bengali: পতাকাদণ্ড (pôtakadôṇḑ)
• Breton: gwern (br) f
• Bulgarian: флагщок m (flagštok)
• Catalan: asta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旗杆 (zh) (qígān)

• Czech: vlajkový stožár m, žerď (cs) f
• Danish: flagstang (da)
• Dutch: vlaggenstok m, vlaggenmast (nl) m
• Esperanto: flagstango
• Estonian: lipuvarras
• Finnish: lipputanko (fi), lippusalko
• French: mât de drapeau m, mât (fr) m
• Georgian: ფლაგშტოკი (plagšṭoḳi)
• German: Fahnenmast (de) m, Fahnenstange (de) f
• Greek: κοντάρι σημαίας n (kontári simaías)
• Hebrew: מוֹט הַדֶגֶל m (mot hadegel)
• Hindi: झंडा फहराने का स्तम्भ (jhaṇḍā phahrāne kā stambh)
• Hungarian: zászlórúd (hu)
• Icelandic: stöng (is) f, flaggstöng f
• Ido: flag-stango
• Indonesian: tiang bendera
• Irish: crann brataí m
• Italian: pennone (it), asta della bandiera f
• Japanese: 旗竿 (はたざお, hatazao)
• Kazakh: тұғырдан (tuğırdan)
• Khmer: ដងទង់ជាតិ (dângôtngchéatĕ)

• Korean: 깃대 (gitdae)
• Lao: ເສົາທຸ່ (sao thu)
• Latvian: karoga kārts f
• Lithuanian: vėliavos stiebas m, flagštokas m
• Macedonian: јарбол m (járbol)
• Malay: tiang bendera
• Maltese: arblu għall-bandiera m
• Maori: pou kara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flaggstang (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: flaggstong f

• Persian: میله پرچم (fa) (milah parcam)
• 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
• Swedish: flaggstång (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagdan ng bandila
• Tajik: рекорди (rekordi)
• Tamil: கொடிக்கம்பம் (ta) (koṭikkampam)
• Thai: เสาธง (sao thohng)
• Turkish: bayrak direği
• Ukrainian: флагшток m (flahštok)
• Venetian: 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) Exit a country momentarily and reenter. Usually this is done to satisfy immigration requirements.
   • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editor, 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.