polo

See also: Polo, polo-, poło, pólo, póló, pôlo, and поло

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊləʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

Etymology 1

From Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

Noun

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.
   • 2007, February 22, “Mike Albo”, in Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me‎^[1]:

     Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.

Usage notes

The word polo has the following commercial uses:

• Polo Mints - A white mint flavoured sweet with a hole in the centre.
• VW Polo - A type of car manufactured by Volkswagen

Derived terms

• canoe polo
• kayak polo
• polo shirt - A T-shaped shirt with a collar and two buttons.
• polo neck - A garment, usually a sweater, with a round, high collar that folds over and covers the neck.
• water polo - A version of the game above, played in a swimming pool instead of on horseback.

Translations

ball game

• Arabic: بُولُو‎ m (būlū)
• Armenian: պոլո (hy) (polo)
• Asturian: polu m
• Azerbaijani: polo (az)
• Belarusian: по́ла n (póla)
• Bengali: পোলো (polo)
• Bulgarian: по́ло n (pólo)
• Burmese: ဂူလီသဘင် (gulisa.bhang)
• Catalan: polo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬球 (zh), 马球 (zh) (mǎqiú)

• Czech: pólo (cs) n
• Danish: polo
• Estonian: polo (et)
• Finnish: poolo (fi), hevospoolo (fi)
• French: polo (fr) m
• Galician: polo (gl) m
• Georgian: ცხენბურთი (cxenburti)
• German: Polo (de) m
• Greek: πόλο (el) n (pólo)
• Hausa: hōlṑ m
• Hebrew: פּוֹלוֹ‎ (he) m (polo)
• Hindi: पोलो (hi) m (polo), चौगान (hi) m (caugān)
• Irish: póló m
• Italian: polo (it) m
• Japanese: ポロ (poro)
• Kazakh: поло (polo), шөген (şögen)
• Korean: 폴로 (pollo)

• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: çovgan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: поло (polo)
• Lithuanian: polas m
• Macedonian: поло n (polo)
• Marathi: पोलो (mr) (polo)
• Nepali: पोलो (polo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: polo (no) m

  Nynorsk: polo m

• Persian: چوگان‎ (fa) (čowgân)
• Polish: polo (pl) n
• Portuguese: pólo (pt) m
• Russian: по́ло (ru) n (pólo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поло n

  Roman: polo (sh) n

• Sinhalese: පෝලෝ (pōlō)
• Slovak: pólo
• Spanish: polo (es) m
• Swedish: hästpolo (sv) c
• Tajik: чавгон (čavgon)
• Thai: โปโล (bpoo-loo)
• Tibetan: པོ་ལོ (po lo)
• Turkish: polo (tr), çevgen (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́ло n (pólo)
• Urdu: پولو‎ (ur) m (polo)
• Uzbek: polo, chavgon (uz)
• Vietnamese: mã cầu (vi), pô-lô

Etymology 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

Noun

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• polo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Loop, OOPL, loop, pool

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

Contraction

polo n (masculine pol, feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Etymology 1

From English polo shirt.

Noun

polo

1. a polo shirt

Etymology 2

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo

1. a ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

polo

1. a dress shirt

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolo]

Noun

polo n

1. polo (a ball game played on horseback)

   Synonym: pólo

Adverb

polo

1. half

Further reading

• polo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• polo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Noun

polo

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

   Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

Further reading

• “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -olo

Noun

polo (accusative singular polon, plural poloj, accusative plural polojn)

1. a Pole (person from Poland)

Hypernyms

• eŭropano (“a European”)

Related terms

• pola (“Polish”)
• pole (“in Polish; like a Pole”)
• Polio, Pollando (“Poland”)

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Finnish

(index po)

Etymology

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo

1. poor (one to be pitied)

   poikapolo

   poor boy

Declension

Inflection of polo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		polo	polot
genitive		polon	polojen
partitive		poloa	poloja
illative		poloon	poloihin
		singular	plural
nominative		polo	polot
accusative	nom.	polo	polot
	gen.	polon
genitive		polon	polojen
partitive		poloa	poloja
inessive		polossa	poloissa
elative		polosta	poloista
illative		poloon	poloihin
adessive		pololla	poloilla
ablative		pololta	poloilta
allative		pololle	poloille
essive		polona	poloina
translative		poloksi	poloiksi
instructive		—	poloin
abessive		polotta	poloitta
comitative		—	poloineen

Possessive forms of polo (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	poloni	polomme
2nd person	polosi	polonne
3rd person	polonsa

Synonyms

• poloinen

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish etymological dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

polo m

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

Contraction of por lo.

Contraction

polo (feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. through the; by the; for the

   O ladrón entrou pola ventá.

   The thief entered through the window.

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)

Synonyms

• pito

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English pole, French pôle, German Pol, Italian polo, Russian по́люс (póljus), Spanish polo, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lo/

Noun

polo (plural poli)

1. pole (point where an axis meets the surface of a rotating body)

Derived terms

• polala
• polara

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Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lo/

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (countable) pole (geographic, electrical or magnetic)

Related terms

• polare

See also

• pollo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (plural poli)

1. (uncountable) polo (sport)

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Latin

Noun

polō

1. dative singular of polus
2. ablative singular of polus

References

• polo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Latvian

Noun

polo m (invariable)

1. polo

Related terms

• ūdenspolo

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Lower Sorbian

Noun

polo n (diminutive polack)

1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

Declension

Declension of polo

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	polo	poli	pola
Genitive	pola	polowu	polow
Dative	poloju, polu	poloma	polam
Accusative	polo	poli	pola
Instrumental	polom	poloma	polami
Locative	polu	poloma	polach

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vannpolo

References

• “polo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

• vasspolo

References

• “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus (“pole”), from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. pole (geographic, magnetic)
2. (figuratively) extreme opposite

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti པོ་ལོ (pulu, “ball”).

Alternative forms

• pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (game, shirt)

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Doublet of polho, which came from Spanish.

Alternative forms

• pôlo (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. eyas

Related terms

• poleiro

Etymology 4

From Old Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

Contraction

polo m (plural polos, feminine pola, feminine plural polas)

1. (obsolete) Contraction of por (“by; through; for”) + o (“the”)

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Ramoaaina

Noun

polo

1. liquid

Further reading

• Robyn Davies and Lisbeth Fritzell, Duke of York Grammar Essentials (Ramoaaina) (October 1992)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolo/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Derived terms

• polo industrial
• polo magnético
• polo norte
• polo sur

 

Related terms

• polar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (uncountable)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

Related terms

• waterpolo

Etymology 3

Originally a trademark.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

polo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of polir.

Further reading

• “polo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian по́ло (pólo).

Noun

polo

1. polo (sport)

Inflection

Inflection of polo
nominative sing.	polo
genitive sing.	polon
partitive sing.	polod
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	polo	—
accusative	polon	—
genitive	polon	—
partitive	polod	—
essive-instructive	polon	—
translative	poloks	—
inessive	polos	—
elative	polospäi	—
illative	?	—
adessive	polol	—
ablative	pololpäi	—
allative	polole	—
abessive	polota	—
comitative	polonke	—
prolative	polodme	—
approximative I	polonno	—
approximative II	polonnoks	—
egressive	polonnopäi	—
terminative I	?	—
terminative II	pololesai	—
terminative III	polossai	—
additive I	?	—
additive II	pololepäi	—

Derived terms

• vezipolo

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “поло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika