vole

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vole"

English

Etymology 1

Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)

Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊl/, [vɔʊɫ]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /voʊl/, [voɫ]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [voːɫ]
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /vəʉl/, /vɐʉl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /vol/, [voɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

vole (plural voles)

2. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the tribes Arvicolini, Ellobiusini, Clethrionomyini, Pliomyini, Phenacomyini and Prometheomyini.

   Hypernyms: (taxonomically) muroid < myomorph, myodont < rodent < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism; (otherwise) gnawer, critter, creature

   Coordinate terms: (familial muroids) mouse (not always differentiated), rat; (fellow small mammals) mole, mole-rat

Derived terms

• Amargosa vole
• bank vole
• beach vole
• Brandt's vole
• Buchanan vole
• California vole
• Clarke's vole
• common vole
• creeping vole
• East European vole
• Evorsk vole
• field vole
• flat-headed vole
• Gull Island vole
• heather vole
• lacustrine vole
• Lake Baikal vole
• large-eared vole
• lemming vole
• long-tailed vole
• mandarin vole
• Marie's vole
• Maximowicz's vole
• meadow vole
• Mexican vole
• Middendorff's vole
• mogollon vole
• mole vole
• Mongolian vole
• montane vole
• mountain vole
• Muisk vole
• Murree vole
• Muskeget vole
• Muya Valley vole
• narrow-headed vole
• Nasarov's vole
• north Siberian vole
• Olkhon Mountain vole
• Oregon vole
• Orkney vole
• paradox vole
• Pere David's vole
• Persian vole
• pine vole
• plateau vole
• prairie vole
• red-backed vole
• redback vole
• red tree vole
• reed vole
• Richardson's vole
• rock vole
• root vole
• royal vole
• sagebrush vole
• Schidlovsky's vole
• Shansei vole
• Shikotan vole
• sibling vole
• singing vole
• Smith's vole
• snow vole
• southern vole
• steppe vole
• Szechuan vole
• taiga vole
• Tien Shan vole
• Townsend's vole
• tree vole
• tundra vole
• Tyrrhenian vole
• volelike
• volepox
• water vole
• white-footed vole
• woodland vole
• yellow vole

Translations

small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae

• Breton: muenn f
• Bulgarian: полевка (polevka), полска мишка (polska miška)
• Catalan: talpó m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 田鼠 (zh) (tiánshǔ)

• Czech: (every genus from Arvicolinae has got its specific Czech name): hryzec (genus Arvicola), hraboš (cs) (genus Microtus), norník (cs) (genus Myodes)
• Danish: studsmus c
• Dutch: veldmuis (nl), woelmuis (nl)
• Esperanto: arvikolo
• Finnish: myyrä (fi)
• French: campagnol (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: wrotmûs

• Friulian: surîs di campagne f
• Galician: leirón (gl) m, ouracán m, ougana f, luria (gl) f, furapozas m
• German: Wühlmaus (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σμίνθος m (smínthos)

• Hungarian: pocok (hu)
• Indonesian: tikus padang (id) (literally “field rat”)
• Irish: vól m
• Italian: arvicola (it) f, campagnolo (it) m
• Japanese: ハタネズミ (ja) (hatanezumi), 畑鼠 (ja) (hatanezumi)
• Kazakh: тоқалтіс (toqaltis)
• Malay: tikus padang (ms) (literally “field rat”)
• Navajo: łeeyiʼ bitiiní
• Occitan: rat de camp m, campanhòl m
• Persian: ول (fa) (vol)
• Polish: nornica (pl) f, nornik (pl) m, polnik m
• Portuguese: rato-do-campo m
• Romanian: șoarece-de-câmp (ro) m
• Romansh: mieur-sfuigna f
• Russian: полёвка (ru) f (poljóvka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: волухар m, волухарица f

  Latin: voluhar m, voluharica f

• Slovene: voluhar (sl) m, voluharji pl
• Spanish: campañol m, topillo m, rata de agua f
• Swedish: sork (sv)
• Vietnamese: chuột đồng (vi)
• Welsh: llygoden (cy) f
• West Flemish: tope f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Cricetidae, but maybe not voles

Note: There is a systematic error in the entries below. "Vole" refers to hundreds of small rodent species living in all kinds of habitats. Many, but probably not all, of the translations refer to the "water vole", which is just one of the many species. When translating "vole" into other languages, one should look for words that refer to the voles as a group. Further details can be found on the Wikipedia articles on vole and on many of the species.

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} nuse e lalës
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} ekialdeko ur-arratoi
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} палеука (paljeuka)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} arvikolo
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mügri
• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} vatnrotta
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} rato do campo
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} vatnastúfa
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} ūdensžurka, ^{(please verify)} ūdeņu strupaste
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pelėnas
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} воден стаорец (voden staorec)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ġurdien ta’ l-ilma
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} vånd (no)
• Romani: ^{(please verify)} xurtso-nivako m, ^{(please verify)} xurtsaika-nivaki f
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} topi de campagna, ^{(please verify)} sóriche de sartu
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} hryzec
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: ^{(please verify)} swišć

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} tarla faresi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} полівка (polivka), ^{(please verify)} нориця (norycja)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French vole.

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. (archaic) A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:

     Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:

     With humble curate can I now retire,
     (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
     And at backgammon mortify my soul,
     That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

1. (archaic, card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:

     no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

Further reading

• vole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “vole”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• voll

Etymology

From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.

Adjective

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

1. full

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolɛ]

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

vole m

1. vocative singular of vůl

Interjection

vole

1. (informal) man, dude
2. ellipsis of ty vole

Usage notes

This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Czech vole, from Proto-Slavic *voľe with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst. First attested in the 14th century.

Noun

vole n (diminutive volátko)

1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
2. (colloquial) goitre

   Synonym: struma

Declension

Declension of vole (t-stem neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	vole	volata
genitive	volete	volat
dative	voleti	volatům
accusative	vole	volata
vocative	vole	volata
locative	voleti	volatech
instrumental	voletem	volaty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

Further reading

• “vole”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vole”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “vole”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvole/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ole
• Syllabification: vo‧le

Adverb

vole

1. voluntarily

Derived terms

• vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

Related terms

• vola (“voluntary”)
• voli (“to want, wish”)
• volo (“volition; one's wish”)

Further reading

• “vole”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

vole

1. inflection of voler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• love, lové
• vélo

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French voler (“to fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vole/

Verb

vole

1. (intransitive) to fly

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 202

Interlingua

Verb

vole

1. present of voler
2. imperative of voler

Italian

Verb

vole

1. (archaic) third-person singular present indicative of volere

Synonyms

• vuole

Anagrams

• Elvo, levo, levò, velo, velò

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voľe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈʋolɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈvolɛ/

Noun

vole n

1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
2. goitre

Declension

Declension of vole (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	vole	voli	vole
genitive	vole	voľú	vol, volí
dative	voľu	voľoma	voľóm
accusative	vole	voli	vole
vocative	vole	voli	vole
locative	voli, voľu	voľú	volích
instrumental	volem	voľoma	voli

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

• Czech: vole

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “vole”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Romanian

Noun

vole n (plural voleuri)

1. obsolete form of voleu

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vole	voleul	voleuri	voleurile
genitive-dative	vole	voleului	voleuri	voleurilor
vocative	voleule		voleurilor

References

• vole in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

1. vocative singular of vol

Verb

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

1. third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

Turkish

Frank Lampard'ın ustaca yaptığı vole vuruşu

Etymology

Derived from French volée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.le/
• Hyphenation: vo‧le

Noun

vole (definite accusative voleyi, plural voleler)

1. (sports) A volley kick in association football.
2. (sports) A shot in tennis before the ball hits the ground.

Declension

Declension of vole

singular plural nominative vole voleler definite accusative voleyi voleleri dative voleye volelere locative volede volelerde ablative voleden volelerden genitive volenin volelerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular volem volelerim 2nd singular volen volelerin 3rd singular volesi voleleri 1st plural volemiz volelerimiz 2nd plural voleniz voleleriniz 3rd plural voleleri voleleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular volemi volelerimi 2nd singular voleni volelerini 3rd singular volesini volelerini 1st plural volemizi volelerimizi 2nd plural volenizi volelerinizi 3rd plural volelerini volelerini dative singular plural 1st singular voleme volelerime 2nd singular volene volelerine 3rd singular volesine volelerine 1st plural volemize volelerimize 2nd plural volenize volelerinize 3rd plural volelerine volelerine locative singular plural 1st singular volemde volelerimde 2nd singular volende volelerinde 3rd singular volesinde volelerinde 1st plural volemizde volelerimizde 2nd plural volenizde volelerinizde 3rd plural volelerinde volelerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular volemden volelerimden 2nd singular volenden volelerinden 3rd singular volesinden volelerinden 1st plural volemizden volelerimizden 2nd plural volenizden volelerinizden 3rd plural volelerinden volelerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular volemin volelerimin 2nd singular volenin volelerinin 3rd singular volesinin volelerinin 1st plural volemizin volelerimizin 2nd plural volenizin volelerinizin 3rd plural volelerinin volelerinin

Related terms

• volan
• voleybol
• voli

Further reading

• “vole”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “vole”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5130

Volapük

Noun

vole

1. dative singular of vol

Yola

Verb

vole

1. alternative form of vall

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 76