Pol in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Pol

You can make 5 words from 'pol' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'pol'
• 2 letters words from 'pol'

3 letters words from 'pol'

LOP 5

POL 5

2 letters words from 'pol'

LO 2	OP 4
PO 4

Definitions and meaning of pol

pol

Etymology

Clipping of politician

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

pol (plural pols)

1. (informal) A politician.

Anagrams

• LPO, Lop, PLO, lop

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Asturian

Etymology

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

Contraction

pol m (feminine pola, neuter polo, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

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Catalan

Noun

pol m or f (plural pols)

1. pole

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

pol c (singular definite polen, plural indefinite poler)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔl/
• Hyphenation: pol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

pol m (plural pollen, diminutive polletje n)

1. a bundle of plants, with the soil it stands on or that hangs from it
2. (Belgium) a hand

Derived terms

• graspol

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Extremaduran

Preposition

pol

1. by

2. through
3. for

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔl]
• Hyphenation: pol

Etymology 1

From Dutch vol, from Middle Dutch vol, from Old Dutch fol, ful, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Adjective

pol (plural pol-pol)

1. (colloquial) full.

   Synonym: penuh

2. (colloquial) maximum.

   Synonym: maksimal

Alternative forms

• pul

Etymology 2

From English poll or Dutch poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).

Noun

pol (plural, first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. poll, a survey of a particular group.

Etymology 3

Noun

pol (plural, first-person possessive polku, second-person possessive polmu, third-person possessive polnya)

1. (nonstandard) Nonstandard form of pul.

Further reading

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

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Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔlˠ]

Noun

pol m (genitive singular poil, nominative plural poil)

1. (biology, electricity, geography, magnetism) pole

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "pol" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pɔɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pɔl]

Interjection

pol

1. by Pollux!, truly!, really!

   • Myrrhina: Et pol ego istuc ad te. Sed quid est, quod tuo nunc animo aegrest?

     Myrrhina: And, troth, I was coming here to yours. But what is it that now distresses your mind?

See also

• edepol

References

• pol in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pol in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural poler, definite plural polene)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

• nordpol
• Polhavet

References

• “pol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːl/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

Noun

pol m (definite singular polen, indefinite plural polar, definite plural polane)

1. pole (the northern and southern ends of the earth's rotational axis; North Pole and South Pole)
2. a pole in geometry.
3. pole of a magnet, negative or positive.

Derived terms

• nordpol
• Polhavet

Etymology 2

Clipping of vinmonopol, from vin +‎ monopol.

Noun

pol n (definite singular polet, indefinite plural pol, definite plural pola)

1. alcohol monopoly (a government monopoly on manufacturing and/or retailing some or all alcoholic beverages)
   1. the institution itself (of alcohol monopoly)
   2. a retailer licenced (through the monopoly) to sell alcohol; government owned liquor store

References

• “pol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Etymology

West Proto-Germanic *pōlaz, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old High German pfuol (German Pfuhl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poːl/

Noun

pōl m

1. pool

Declension

Descendants

• English: pool

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)

Declension

Derived terms

• polarni

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• spȏl (Croatia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

Noun

pȏl m (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
2. (Bosnia, Serbia) gender

Declension

Derived terms

• polni

Etymology 3

From pȍla.

Alternative forms

• pȏ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːl/

Particle

pȏl (Cyrillic spelling по̑л)

1. (Croatia) half

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Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pol c

1. a pole, an extreme point, usually magnetically or geographically. (North pole, South pole)
2. a pole, the points of an electrical battery between which the voltage arises.
3. (mathematics, theory for analytical functions) a point where a Laurent series is not defined.

Declension

Related terms

• batteripol
• magnetpol
• nordpol
• polär
• polarcirkel
• polarexpedition
• polarforskning
• sydpol

Source: wiktionary.org

• a politician.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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