pols

See also: Pols and pöls

English

Noun

pols

1. plural of pol

Anagrams

• LPOs, lops, slop, splo

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pols, from Middle Dutch pols, from Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔls/

Noun

pols (plural polse, diminutive polsie)

1. wrist

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpols]

Etymology 1

From Latin pulsus.

Noun

pols m (plural polsos)

1. pulse

Related terms

• polsar

Etymology 2

From (compare Occitan pols), from Latin pulvis, pulveris (which in Vulgar Latin switched to a neuter gender, with accusative pŭlvis), possibly through a root *pulvus (compare Old French pous; cf. Spanish polvo, Portuguese pó). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

Noun

pols f (invariable)

1. dust

Derived terms

• guardapols

Related terms

• pólvora

Etymology 3

Noun

pols

1. plural of pol

Further reading

• “pols” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pols”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pols” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pols” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pols, from Latin pulsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔls/

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• Hyphenation: pols
• Rhymes: -ɔls

Noun

pols m (plural polsen, diminutive polsje n)

1. A wrist.
2. Short for polsslag: pulse.

Derived terms

• polshorloge
• polsslag
• vinger aan de pols houden

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pols
• → Papiamentu: pòls

Anagrams

• slop

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pulsus.

Noun

pols m (plural pols)

1. (anatomy) wrist
2. pulse

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Latvian

Noun

pols m (1st declension)

1. pole

Declension

Declension of pols (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pols	poli
accusative (akuzatīvs)	polu	polus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pola	polu
dative (datīvs)	polam	poliem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	polu	poliem
locative (lokatīvs)	polā	polos
vocative (vokatīvs)	pol	poli

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Middle English

Noun

pols

1. Alternative form of puls

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Swedish

Noun

pols

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of pol