Sol in Scrabble Dictionary

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Definitions and meaning of sol

sol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soʊ/

Etymology 1

From Latin solve, from the first word of the fifth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Alternative forms

• so, soh

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/
• (US) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/
• Homophones: soul, sole (US)

Noun

sol (uncountable)

2. (music) The fifth step in the solfège scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sol (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒl/

Noun

sol (plural sols)

2. (astronomy) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
   • 2014, Andy Weir, The Martian, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it [the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives] works out to be 1425 days.

   • 2014, Gerard 't Hooft, Stefan Vandoren, Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN, pt. 1, c. 6, p. 25:

     88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds: The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a 'sol'

Translations

See also

• Sol
• tosol
• yestersol

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish sol (“sun”), itself from Latin sol (“sun”). Doublet of the sense above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒl/

Noun

sol (plural sols)

1. A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value.
   • 1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana:

     Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of solution.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑːl/, /sɒl/, /soʊl/

Noun

sol (plural sols)

1. (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
2. (archaic) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), in old books of controversial divinity.

Translations

Derived terms

• aerosol
• alcosol

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Old French sol, from Latin solidus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑːl/, /sɒl/

Noun

sol (plural sols)

1. (historical) An old French coin worth 12 deniers.

Anagrams

• LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

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Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition so (“under”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

sol m

1. under the

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [soɫ]

Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)

1. left

Declension

Antonyms

• sağ

Derived terms

• solaxay (“left-hander”)
• solçu (“leftist”)
  • solçuluq (“leftism”)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Homophone: sòl
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Proper noun

sol m

1. (astronomy) the Sun

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (astronomy) a sun
2. (money) sol (unit of currency used by Peru)

Derived terms

Related terms

• solar

Etymology 2

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (music) sol (the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

Etymology 4

From Latin sōlus (“solitary”).

Adjective

sol (feminine sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles)

1. alone (by oneself, solitary)
2. unique

Derived terms

Related terms

• soledat

Etymology 5

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative form of soler
2. second-person singular imperative form of soler

Further reading

• “sol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sol (“sun”).

Noun

sol

1. sun

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

sol

1. left

Declension

Adjective

sol

1. left

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsol]

Verb

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solit

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól (“sun”), from Proto-Germanic *sōwulą, *sōwulō (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/, [soːˀl]
• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite sole)

1. sun

Inflection

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

Etymology 2

From Latin solūtiō (“solution”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/, [soːˀl]

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite soler)

1. (chemistry) sol (solution)

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/, [sʌl]

Noun

sol n (singular definite sollet, plural indefinite soller)

1. (music) sol (note)

Inflection

Further reading

• “sol” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were taken from.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

Noun

sol f (plural sollen, diminutive solletje n)

1. (music, Belgium) sol, the fifth step in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la.

Anagrams

• los

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin solum (“soil, ground, floor”).

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. soil, earth
2. ground
3. floor

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist where all note names were taken from.

Noun

sol m (plural sol)

1. (music) sol, the fifth step (G) in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish sol (“sun”), itself from Latin sol.

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value.

Etymology 4

From Latin solidus, a Roman coin. This form kept the historical spelling based on the Old French and Latin. See the main entry at sou.

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (archaic) sou, the feudal era coin.

Further reading

• “sol” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s̺ol]

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. sun
2. sunlight
3. sunny side (of a place)

4. daylight (time between sunrise and sunset)

Antonyms

• (sunlight): sombra
• (sunny side): sombra
• (daylight): noite

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s̺ol]

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. (music) sol (musical note)
2. (music) G (the musical note or key)

See also

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s̺ɔl]

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

References

• “sol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “sol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “sol” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese sol. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sol.

Noun

sol

1. sun

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zool, from Middle Dutch sole, from Vulgar Latin sola ("bottom of the shoe", also "flatfish"), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Compare to Afrikaans sool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl]
• Hyphenation: sol

Noun

sol (plural, first-person possessive solku, second-person possessive solmu, third-person possessive solnya)

1. sole, the bottom of a shoe or boot.

Derived terms

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Noun

sol (plural soles)

1. sun

Adjective

sol (comparative plus sol, superlative le plus sol)

1. alone

Determiner

sol

1. (quantifying) only

Derived terms

• solmente

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Italian

Noun

sol m (invariable)

1. sol (musical note, colloid)
2. G (musical note and key)
3. Apocopic form of sole

Adjective

sol

1. Apocopic form of solo

Further reading

• sol¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• sol² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese sol.

Verb

sol

1. sun

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Ladino

Noun

sol m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סול‎)

1. sun

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swōl, from pre-Italic *sh₂wōl, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. Cognate with Old English sōl, Old Norse sól, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌻 (sauil), Old Church Slavonic слъньцє (slŭnĭce), Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), Sanskrit सूर (sūra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soːl/, [s̠oːɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sol/, [sɔl]

Noun

sōl m (genitive sōlis); third declension

1. sun
   • 1st century BC, Catullus, Carmina V; lines 4-6

     Soles occidere et redire possunt
     Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux
     Nox est perpetua una dormienda

     Suns are able to set and rise again
     But with us, once this brief light ends
     There is endless night for us to sleep

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• sol in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sol in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sol in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sol in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sol in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

Noun

sol f

1. salt (“sodium chloride”)
2. (chemistry) salt (“compound of an acid and a base”)

Declension

Derived terms

• solny
• solowy

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Middle English

Etymology

From Latin sōl (“the sun”), or perhaps from Old English sōl (“the sun”), both of which hail from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

sol (uncountable)

1. The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun.
2. (rare) A heavy, yellow metal; gold.
   • c. 1395 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale

     Mercurie..and brymstoon..out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

Synonyms

• (planet, metal): sonne
• (planet): Phebus

References

• “sol, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Northern Kurdish

Noun

sol f

1. shoe

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/
• (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA^(key): [suːɽ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōwulą, *sōwulō (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

sol f or m (definite singular sola or solen, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)

1. sun

Derived terms

Related terms

• sole (verb)

Etymology 2

Shortened form of Latin solutio

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Derived terms

• aerosol

Etymology 3

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

References

• “sol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōwulą, *sōwulō (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. Cognates include Icelandic sól, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌻 (sauil), Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), Latin sōl, Lithuanian sáulė, Russian солнце (solnce), and Sanskrit स्वर् (svar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/ (example of pronunciation)
• (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA^(key): [suːɽ]

Noun

sol f (definite singular sola, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)

2. sun

3. sunshine

4. a shiningly merry girl

Derived terms

• sola, sole (verb)

Related terms

• helio-
• solar
• solarium n
• solsikke f

Etymology 2

From Latin solve, from the first word of the fifth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

Alternative forms

• so (open syllable variant)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔːl/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: sål

Noun

sol m (definite singular sol-en, indefinite plural sol-ar, definite plural sol-ane)

2. (music) sol, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

Coordinate terms

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

Etymology 3

Shortened form of Latin solutio.

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Derived terms

• aerosol

References

• “sol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• los, lós, lòs, sol, sòl, sol-, Sol, slo

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Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sōwulą, *sōwulō (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewol-, *sóh₂wl̥. Akin to Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *suwen- (“sun”). Akin to Old Norse sól, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌻 (sauil, “sun”), Old English sunne, Old Norse, Old Saxon and Old High German sunna (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/

Noun

sōl n

1. sun
2. the Sun

Declension

Synonyms

• siġel, sweġl, sunne

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old High German sol, gisol (“pool of excrement”), Middle Dutch sol (“puddle, dirt, filth”). More at soil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

sol n

1. mud, wet sand, mire
2. a wallowing-place, slough, miry-place

Declension

Related terms

• solian, sylian
• solu, syle, sylen

Descendants

• English: soil, soal

Adjective

sol

1. dark, dirty, soiled

Declension

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Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin solus, sola.

Alternative forms

• seul
• soul
• sul

Adjective

sol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sole)

1. alone

Derived terms

• solement (adv)

Descendants

• → English: sole
• French: seul

Etymology 2

From Latin solidus.

Noun

sol m (oblique plural sous or sox or sols, nominative singular sous or sox or sols, nominative plural sol)

1. sol; Old French coin

Descendants

• → English: sol
• French: sou

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Proper noun

sol m

1. Sun (celestial object)

Synonyms

• solelh

Descendants

• Catalan: sol

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “sōl”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 120, page 23

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Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/

Etymology 1

From Latin sōlus (“alone”).

Adverb

sol

1. only; just; no more than

Derived terms

Related terms

• soo

Etymology 2

From Latin sol, sōlem (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

Noun

sol m

1. sun

   • Eſta primeira é de comel fez ó çeo. ⁊ á terra. ⁊ ó mar ⁊ o ſol. ⁊ á lũa. ⁊ as eſtrelas ⁊ todalas outras couſas q̇ ſon. ⁊ como fez ó ome áſa ſemellança

     This first one is (about) how He made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and everything else that exists. And how (He) made man in His own likeness.

Descendants

• Fala: sol
• Galician: sol
• Portuguese: sol

Etymology 3

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soer

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōwulō.

Noun

sōl f

1. sun

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: sol

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔw/, [ˈs̻ɔʊ̯]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹ/
• Hyphenation: sol
• Rhymes: -ɔw

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

sol m (plural sóis)

1. sun
2. sunshine (a location on which the sun's rays fall)
4. (uncountable) weather (state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)

Etymology 2

From Latin solve in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

sol m (plural sóis)

1. sol (musical note)

Further reading

• sol in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”), French sol.

Noun

sol n (plural soluri)

1. The lowest part of something; bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed.
2. The floor or pavement of a room.
3. Ground, earth, land, soil.
4. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, compare Slovene sel.

Noun

sol m (plural soli)

1. messenger
2. envoy

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): sȏ

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Solyanka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sôːl/

Noun

sȏl f (Cyrillic spelling со̑л)

1. (Croatia) salt

Declension

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sóːʋ/

Noun

sọ̑ł f

1. salt (common substance)

Inflection

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/, [ˈsol]

Etymology 1

From Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The Peruvian currency makes reference to the meaning "sun", but is a shortening from Latin solidus.

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. sun
2. sunlight
3. sunny side (of a place)

   Antonym: sombra

4. daylight (time between sunrise and sunset)

   Antonym: noche

5. sol (a unit of currency, currently used in Peru)

Derived terms

Related terms

• solar
• solárium

Etymology 2

From Latin solve in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (musical note)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sōl, from Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōwulō, from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/

Noun

sol c

1. sun
2. (by extension) a star, especially when one considers things in its surroundings.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• sol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• los

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Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English shoulder.

Noun

sol

1. (anatomy) shoulder

Etymology 2

From English salt.

Noun

sol

1. salt

Derived terms

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Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic sol‎ (sol), from Proto-Turkic *sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɔɫ]

Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)

1. left

Antonyms

• sağ

Etymology 2

Verb

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solmak

Etymology 3

From French sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɔlʲ]

Noun

sol

1. (music) sol

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soola.

Noun

sol

1. salt

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Volapük

Noun

sol (nominative plural sols)

1. sun

Declension

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sól (“sun,”) from Proto-Germanic *sōwulą, *sōwulō, from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs(o)uːɽ/

  Rhymes: -úːɽ

• (definite) IPA^(key): /ˈs(o)uːɽɐ/

  Rhymes: -úːɽɐ

• (dative) IPA^(key): /ˈs(o)uːɳ/

  Rhymes: -úːɳ

Noun

sol f (definite sola, dative soln)

1. (Sun) The Sun.

Derived terms

• solblåmm
• sol-bräkk
• solskin

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Zazaki

Noun

sol ?

1. salt

Source: wiktionary.org

• SOKE, a feudal right to administer justice in a certain area.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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