Pal in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Pal

You can make 6 words from 'pal' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'pal'
• 2 letters words from 'pal'

3 letters words from 'pal'

ALP 5	LAP 5
PAL 5

2 letters words from 'pal'

AL 2	LA 2
PA 4

Definitions and meaning of pal

pal

Etymology

Borrowed from Angloromani pal (“brother, friend”), from Romani phral (“brother”), from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother”). Doublet of brother and 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.

   Little Timmy's out playing with his pals.

2. (colloquial) An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way.

   Don't you threaten me, pal – I'll report you to the police.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

Related terms

Anagrams

• ALP, APL, LPA, PLA, Pla, alp, lap

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Angloromani

Alternative forms

• palla, pel, pral, prala, pralla, pulu

Etymology

From Romani phral, from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrā́tṛ), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognate with English brother.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰæl], [pʰæɫ]

Noun

pal

1. brother

2. friend

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: pal

References

• “pal” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.
• “pal” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.

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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 (1983) Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla)

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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
4. (colloquial) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related terms

See also

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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 (2005) A Grammar of Cupeño

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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

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Postposition

pal

1. (follows genitive case -ni) because, on account of

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal]
• Hyphenation: pal

Etymology 1

From Dutch paal (“pole”), from Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, from Latin pālus. See Dutch mijlpaal (“milestone”).

Noun

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

1. milestone, one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

pal (first-person possessive palku, second-person possessive palmu, third-person possessive palnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of faal.

Further reading

• “pal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Participle

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

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Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

pal ?

1. side

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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 Proto-West Germanic intermediate *pāl. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal). Doublet of pǣl, from the variant Proto-West Germanic *pāli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/

Noun

pāl m

1. stake

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: paal, pall, pol, poll, pole
  • English: pole
  • Scots: pale, pall

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Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from either Old Dutch pāl or Old High German pāl, from Proto-West Germanic *pāl, from Latin pālus (“stake, prop”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). Cognate to Old English pāl. Doublet of pēl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːl/

Noun

pāl f

1. pole

Descendants

• North Frisian: pul
• West Frisian: peal, poal

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

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Pipil

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

Relational

-pal

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

2. for (benefactive relation)

Declension

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:

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pal

Etymology 1

From Latin pālus (“stake”).

Noun

pal m inan

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

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of palić

Further reading

• pal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French pâle.

Adjective

pal m or n (feminine singular pală, masculine plural pali, feminine and neuter plural pale)

1. pale

Declension

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Spanish

Contraction

pal

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

Related terms

Further reading

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

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pal]

Noun

pal (nominative plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother

   Hyponyms: fat, hipal, jipal, mot

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Source: wiktionary.org

• to associate as friends.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)