pal

See also: Pal, PAL, Pál, pał, pâl, päl, Pål, and päl-

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Angloromani phal, from Romani phral, from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognates also include English brother, Ancient Greek φράτηρ (phrátēr), Latin frater.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pal/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

pal (plural pals)

1. (colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber, someone to hang around with.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• galpal
• penpal

Verb

pal (third-person singular simple present pals, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

   John plans to pal around with Joe today.

Related terms

• palsy-walsy

Anagrams

• ALP, APL, LPA, PLA, Pla, alp, lap

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition pa (“for”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

pal m

1. for the

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Cahuilla

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Katherine Siva Sauvel, ‎Pamela Munro, Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla) (1983)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pal, from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

Related terms

• empalar
• palissada
• pallissa

See also

• bastó

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Cupeño

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa

Cognate with Cahuilla pál, Luiseño paala, Tübatulabal bal, Northern Paiute paa, Comanche paa, Hopi paahu, Classical Nahuatl atl.

Noun

pál

1. water

References

• Jane H. Hill, A Grammar of Cupeño (2005)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal]
• Rhymes: -al

Interjection

pal!

1. fire! (a signal to shoot)

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pálit

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French pal, from Latin pālus. Cognate with paal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun

pal m (plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

1. catch (mechanism which stops something from moving the wrong way)

Adverb

pal

1. firm, firmly
2. (with a preposition or adverb) right, immediately

Anagrams

• lap

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”). Compare the inherited doublet pieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

Further reading

• “pal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingue

Noun

pal (plural pales)

1. pole, stake

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːl/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal ?

1. side

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Participle

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

Noun

pal m (plural pals)

1. post, pole, stake
2. (nautical) mast

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Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake”), possibly through a late Proto-Germanic intermediate. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/

Noun

pāl m

1. stake

Declension

Declension of pal

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pāl	pālas
accusative	pāl	pālas
genitive	pāles	pāla
dative	pāle	pālum

Descendants

• Middle English: pole, pal
  • English: pole

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Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

Relational

-pal

1. of (genitive relation, also forms genitive pronouns)

   Ne pelu ipal ne takat

   The dog of the man → The man's dog.

   Ashan ini kal mupal

   Now this house is yours

2. for (benefactive relation)

   Tikpiat se mupal wan se nupal

   We have one for you and one for me

Declension

Declension of -pal

Person	Number
	singular	plural
first	nupal	tupal
second	mupal	anmupal
third	ipal	inpal

Usage notes

• The relational noun -pal is part of a restricted group of relationals that can be used without a possessive marker when it accompanies an explicit complement, thus acting like a preposition:

  Ne pelu pal ne takat

  The dog of the man → The man's dog.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/

• Audio

  (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake”).

Noun

pal m inan

1. stake (piece of wood)
2. pile (for the support of a building)

Declension

declension of pal

	singular	plural
nominative	pal	pale
genitive	pala	pali
dative	palowi	palom
accusative	pal	pale
instrumental	palem	palami
locative	palu	palach
vocative	palu	pale

Etymology 2

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of palić

Further reading

• pal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Contraction

pal

1. (colloquial) contraction of para (“for”) + el (“the”)

Related terms

• pa, pa'

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Noun

pal (plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother

Declension

declension of pal

	singular	plural
nominative	pal	pals
genitive	pala	palas
dative	pale	pales
accusative	pali	palis
vocative 1	o pal!	o pals!
predicative 2	palu	palus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Hyponyms

• hipal (“male parent, father”)
• fat (“father”)
• jipal (“female parent, mother”)
• mot (“mother”)

Derived terms

• lepal (“grandparent”)
• palalöf (“parentship”)
• palapär
• palef
• palik (“parental”)
• lepal (“grandparent”)
• dalepal (“great-grandparent”)

See also

• lefat (“grandfather”)
• lemot (“grandmother”)
• dalefat (“great-grandfather”)
• dalemot (“great-grandmother”)
• röletan (“a relative, a relation”)