foal

English

A mare and foal.

Alternative forms

• foale, fole (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”).

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəʊl/, [fɔʊɫ]
  • (doll–dole merger) IPA^(key): /fɒl/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fɐʉl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /foʊl/, [foɫ]

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• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

foal (plural foals)

1. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
2. (mining, historical) A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

Derived terms

• dummy foal
• foalfoot
• foalhood
• foal immunodeficiency syndrome
• foalish
• in-foal
• lavender foal syndrome
• warmblood fragile foal syndrome
• with foal

Translations

young horse

• Albanian: mëz (sq) m
• Arabic: مُهْر m (muhr), فِلْو m (filw)

  Egyptian Arabic: مهر m (muhr)

• Armenian: մտրուկ (hy) (mtruk), քուռակ (hy) (kʻuṙak)
• Aromanian: mãndzu
• Asturian: potru (ast) m
• Avar: тайи (taji)
• Azerbaijani: qulun
• Bashkir: ҡолон (qolon); (diminutive) ҡолонсаҡ (qolonsaq), ҡолоҡай (qoloqay)
• Belarusian: жарабя́ n (žarabjá), жарабё n (žarabjó)
• Breton: ebeul (br) m
• Bulgarian: конче́ (bg) n (končé), жребче́ (bg) n (žrebčé)
• Burmese: မြင်းကလေး (my) (mrang:ka.le:)
• Buryat: унаган (unagan)
• Catalan: pollí (ca), poltre (ca) m, f
• Chechen: бекъа (beqʼa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駒子 / 驹子 (zh) (jūzi), 駒 / 驹 (zh) (jū), 䮔 (zh) (zuī)

• Chuvash: тиха (tih̬a)
• Crimean Tatar: bala, at bala
• Czech: hříbě (cs) n
• Danish: føl (da) n
• Dutch: veulen (nl) n, kachtel (nl) n
• Erzya: парнэ (parnë), вашо (vašo)
• Esperanto: ĉevalido
• Estonian: varss (et)
• Faroese: fyl n, foli m
• Finnish: varsa (fi)
• French: poulain (fr) m, pouliche (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: fôle

• Galician: poldro (gl) m
• Georgian: კვიცი (ḳvici)
• German: Fohlen (de) n, Füllen (de) n, Jungpferd (de) n

  Alemannic German: Füli n

• Greek: πουλάρι (el) n (poulári)

  Ancient Greek: πῶλος m or f (pôlos)

• Hebrew: סייח (he) m (s’yách)
• Hungarian: csikó (hu)
• Icelandic: folald (is) n
• Indonesian: anak kuda
• Ingrian: varsa
• Ingush: бакъ (baqʼ)
• Irish: searrach m
• Italian: puledro (it) n (poltrone (it) (obsolete))
• Japanese: 子馬 (ja) (こうま, kouma)
• Javanese: belo (jv)
• Kalmyk: унһн (unğn)
• Kazakh: құлын (qūlyn), құлыншақ (qūlynşaq)
• Komi:

  Komi-Zyrian: чань (ćań)

• Korean: 망아지 (ko) (mang'aji)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جوانوو (cwanû)

  Northern Kurdish: canî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кулун (ky) (kulun), тай (ky) (tay)
• Latin: equulus m
• Latvian: kumeļš
• Lithuanian: kumeliukas
• Macedonian: ждребе n (ždrebe)
• Malay: anak kuda
• Maltese: felu m
• Māori: punua hōiho, hōiho kuao
• Mongolian: унага (mn) (unaga)
• Norman: poulain m
• Norwegian: føll (no) n, fole (no) m
• Occitan: polin (oc) m
• Old Church Slavonic: жрѣбьць m (žrěbĭcĭ), жрѣбѧ n (žrěbę)
• Old English: fola m
• Persian: کره (fa) (korre)
• Plautdietsch: Falm n
• Polish: źrebak (pl) m, źrebię (pl) n
• Portuguese: potro (pt) m
• Romani: khuro m
• Romanian: mânz (ro) m, mânză (ro) f
• Russian: жеребёнок (ru) m (žerebjónok)
• Scottish Gaelic: searrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ждребе n, ждријебе n

  Latin: ždrebe (sh) n, ždrijebe (sh) n

• Shor: қулун
• Sicilian: putru (scn) m
• Slovak: žriebä (sk) n
• Slovene: žrebe (sl) n, žrebiček m (diminutive)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žrěbje n

  Upper Sorbian: žrěbjo n

• Spanish: potranco (es) m, potro (es) m, potra f, potrillo (es) m
• Swahili: mwanafarasi
• Swedish: föl (sv) n
• Tagalog: bisiro
• Tatar: колын (tt) (qolın)
• Turkish: tay (tr), kulun (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قولون (kulun)

• Turkmen: taý
• Udmurt: чуньы (ćuńy)
• Ukrainian: лоша́ n (lošá), жеребе́ць (uk) m (žerebécʹ)
• Uzbek: toy (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngựa con, lừa con
• Volapük: jevodül (vo)
• Welsh: ebol (cy) m
• Yakut: кулун (kulun)

Verb

foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)

1. (ambitransitive) To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

   • [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102:

     "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure seems to be to do what you wish; […]

Translations

give birth (equestrian)

• Albanian: pjell (sq)
• Bulgarian: ожребвам се (ožrebvam se)
• Catalan: pollinar (ca)
• Czech: ohřebit se (cs) pf, vrhnout hříbě
• Danish: fole (da)
• Faroese: fola
• Finnish: varsoa (fi)
• French: pouliner (fr)
• German: fohlen (de)
• Icelandic: kasta (is)
• Kalmyk: унһлх (unğlx)
• Macedonian: се ождребува (se oždrebuva)
• Māori: whānau punua hōiho
• Polish: oźrebić się
• Portuguese: parir (pt)
• Romanian: făta (ro)
• Russian: жереби́ться (ru) impf (žerebítʹsja), ожереби́ться (ru) pf (ožerebítʹsja)
• Sicilian: figghiari (scn), sgravari
• Slovene: ožrebiti se (sl) pf
• Swedish: föla (sv)
• Turkish: kulunlamak (tr), taylamak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قولونلامق (kulunlamak)

See also

• colt
• filly
• horseling
• mare
• stallion

Anagrams

• AFOL, Olaf, loaf