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4-letter words (3 found)

LOOP,POLO,POOL,

3-letter words (5 found)

LOO,LOP,OOP,POL,POO,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OO,OP,PO,

You can make 12 words from polo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of polo

polo oplo ploo lpoo olpo lopo pool opol pool opol oopl oopl ploo lpoo polo oplo lopo olpo olop loop oolp oolp loop olop

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word polo. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in polo.

Definitions and meaning of polo

polo

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊloʊ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/, /ˈpəʊl.əʊ/, [ˈpəʊləʊ], [ˈpɒʊɫəʊ]
  • Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

Etymology 1

From Balti پولو (“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. The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
  3. (countable) A polo shirt.
Derived terms
Translations

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.

Etymology 4

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus

Interjection

polo

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo
    Coordinate terms: marco, marco polo

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

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

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 (“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

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpolo]

Etymology 1

Adverb

polo

  1. half

Etymology 2

Noun

polo n

  1. Alternative form of pólo (“polo”) (a ball game played on horseback)
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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

Danish

Noun

polo

  1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
  2. polo shirt
    Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

Further reading

  • “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Pole, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe (“field”). Doublet of poljo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpolo]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

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

  1. Pole (person from Poland)

Hypernyms

  • eŭropano (“a European”)

Related terms

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

Finnish

Etymology

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

polo

  1. poor (one to be pitied)
    poikapolo
    poor boy
    Synonyms: raasu, ressukka, poloinen, raukka, parka, raukkaparka

Declension

Derived terms

References

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

Further reading

  • “polo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Pronunciation

Noun

polo m

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

Further reading

  • “polo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

Contraction of the preposition por (“through, by, for”) + alternative form of the masculine singular definite article lo (“the”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʊlʊ]

Contraction

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

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

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpolʊ]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)
    • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:
    Synonyms: pito, pitiño
Related terms
  • pola

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpolʊ]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. (geography, electricity) pole

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpolʊ]

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. polo (ball game)
  2. polo shirt, polo

References

  • “polo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “polo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “polo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “polo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “polo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *polo. Cognates include Finnish polo.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo̞ɫo̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo̞ɫo̞]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo

  1. (in compounds) poor (one deserving pity)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 422

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlo
  • Hyphenation: pò‧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)
Related terms
  • polistico

References

Latin

Noun

polō

  1. dative/ablative singular of polus

References

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

Latvian

Noun

polo m (invariable)

  1. polo

Related terms

  • ūdenspolo

Lower Sorbian

Noun

polo n inan (diminutive polack)

  1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

Declension

Maranao

Etymology

From pulo, compare Cebuano pulo.

Noun

polo

  1. island

Mokilese

Noun

polo

  1. group

Possessive forms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English polo, from Balti پولو (“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).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

  1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

Derived terms

  • vasspolo

References

  • “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti پولو.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.lɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
  • Syllabification: po‧lo

Noun

polo n (indeclinable)

  1. (equestrianism) polo (ball game)
  2. polo shirt
    Synonyms: koszulka polo, polówka

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. (geography, electricity) pole (geographic, magnetic)
  2. (complex analysis) pole
  3. (figurative) extreme opposite
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • pólo (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. polo (ball game)
  2. polo shirt, polo

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

  • pôlo (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. eyas
Related terms
  • poleiro

Etymology 4

From Old Galician-Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (unstressed) /pu.lu/, [pu.lu]
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Contraction

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

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

Ramoaaina

Noun

polo

  1. liquid

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French polo.

Noun

polo n (uncountable)

  1. polo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpolo/ [ˈpo.lo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Syllabification: po‧lo

Etymology 1

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

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. (geography, electricity) pole
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English polo.

Noun

polo m (uncountable)

  1. polo (ball game)
  2. polo shirt
  3. (Peru) T-shirt
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:camiseta
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Originally a trademark.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly
    Synonym: paleta

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

polo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of polir

Etymology 5

From corruption of polong, Hispanicized spelling of Tagalog pulong, meaning "community work". An alternate etymology posits it to be from Tagalog ikapulo ("tenth") or tithe (diezmos prediales), for a tenth (10%) of the harvest is given to the Church.

Noun

polo m (plural polos)

  1. (Philippines, historical) unpaid compulsory work; corvée
  2. (Philippines, historical) tax levied on the natives of the Philippine islands and paid as labor, goods, and/or money
    Synonyms: tributo, impuesto

See also

References

Further reading

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

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English polo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo.lo]
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. polo (sport)
  2. polo shirt
Derived terms
  • polo barong

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish polo (“corvée”), which came from either:

  • From pulo, ikapulo (“tenth”) or tithe (diezmos prediales), for a tenth (10%) of the harvest is given to the Church. Related to etymology 4.
  • From corruption of polong, Hispanicized spelling of Tagalog pulong, meaning "community work".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo.lo]
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. unpaid compulsory work; corvée
    Synonym: atag
  2. tax levied on the natives and paid as labor, goods, and/or money
    Synonyms: buwis, tributo, alkabala, amilyar, impuwesto
Related terms

See also

References

Etymology 3

Either from Proto-Philippine *pujuq. Compare Malay pulau.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈloʔ/, [poˈloʔ]
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. Obsolete form of pulo: island

Etymology 4

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq. Compare Malay puluh.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poˈloʔ/, [poˈloʔ]
  • Hyphenation: po‧lo

Noun

polô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. Obsolete form of pulo: ten

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian по́ло (pólo).

Noun

polo

  1. polo (sport)

Inflection

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]‎[7], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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