fol

See also: FOL, fól, föl, føl, fol., and föl-

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔl/

Adjective

fol

  1. Alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

Further reading


Galician

A Galician gaita

Etymology

From Latin follis (bellows, purse), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔl/

Noun

fol m (plural foles)

  1. bag (of bagpipes)
  2. bellows
  3. bag, sack, goatskin
    home pequeno, fol de veleno
    a little man, a bag of poison
    (proverb)
  4. (archaic) a madman

Derived terms

References

  • fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • fol” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • fol” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • fol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fol/

Etymology

From French folle

Noun

fol (masculine fou)

  1. (feminine) mad, crazy person

Adjective

fol (masculine fou)

  1. (feminine) mad, crazy, insane
    Synonym: pagli

Middle English

Noun

fol

  1. Alternative form of fole (fool)

Adjective

fol

  1. Alternative form of fole (foolish)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fol.

Adjective

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)

  1. mad; insane
  2. foolish; silly

Noun

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)

  1. madman (person who is insane)

Descendants


Old French

Etymology

From Latin follis, follem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔl/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)

  1. mad; insane
  2. foolish; silly

Descendants


Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

Adjective

fol

  1. mad; insane; crazy

Volapük

Volapük cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : fol
    Ordinal : folid

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fol

  1. four

Derived terms

  • folam
  • folüm

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔl/

Noun

fol

  1. soft mutation of of bol

West Frisian

Etymology

Adjective

fol

  1. full (not empty)
  2. full of
  3. whole, full, complete

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • fol”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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