pal

Borrowed from Angloromani phal, from Romani phral, from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Cognates also include English brother, Ancient Greek φράτηρ (phrátēr), Latin frater.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pal/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

pal (plural pals)

1. (colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber, someone to hang around with.

• See also Thesaurus:friend

• galpal
• penpal

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

1. Be friends with, hang around with.

   John plans to pal around with Joe today.

• palsy-walsy

• ALP, APL, LPA, PLA, Pla, alp, lap

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

pal m

1. for the

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa

pál

1. water

• Katherine Siva Sauvel, ‎Pamela Munro, Chem'ivillu' (let's speak Cahuilla) (1983)

From Old Occitan pal, from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpal/
• Rhymes: -al

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

• empalar
• palissada
• pallissa

• bastó

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa

Cognate with Cahuilla pál, Luiseño paala, Tübatulabal bal, Northern Paiute paa, Comanche paa, Hopi paahu, Classical Nahuatl atl.

pál

1. water

• Jane H. Hill, A Grammar of Cupeño (2005)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpal]
• Rhymes: -al

pal!

1. fire! (a signal to shoot)

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of pálit

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

• IPA^(key): /pɑl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑl

pal m (plural pallen, diminutive palletje n)

1. catch (mechanism which stops something from moving the wrong way)

pal

1. firm, firmly
2. (with a preposition or adverb) right, immediately

• lap

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”). Compare the inherited doublet pieu.

• IPA^(key): /pal/

pal m (plural pals)

1. stake
2. pole
3. (heraldry) pale

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

pal (plural pales)

1. pole, stake

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːl/
• Rhymes: -al

pal ?

1. side

• IPA^(key): [pal]

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of paliś

• IPA^(key): /pal/

pal m (plural pals)

1. post, pole, stake
2. (nautical) mast

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake”), possibly through a late Proto-Germanic intermediate. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal).

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/

pāl m

1. stake

• Middle English: pole, pal
  • English: pole

• (standard) IPA^(key): /pal/

-pal

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

   Ne pelu ipal ne takat

   The dog of the man → The man's dog.

   Ashan ini kal mupal

   Now this house is yours

2. for (benefactive relation)

   Tikpiat se mupal wan se nupal

   We have one for you and one for me

• 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:

  Ne pelu pal ne takat

  The dog of the man → The man's dog.

• IPA^(key): /pal/

• Audio

  (file)

Borrowed from Latin pālus (“stake”).

pal m inan

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

pal

1. second-person singular imperative of palić

• pal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

pal

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

• pa, pa'

• IPA^(key): [pal]

pal (plural pals)

1. parent, father or mother

• hipal (“male parent, father”)
• fat (“father”)
• jipal (“female parent, mother”)
• mot (“mother”)

• lepal (“grandparent”)
• palalöf (“parentship”)
• palapär
• palef
• palik (“parental”)
• lepal (“grandparent”)
• dalepal (“great-grandparent”)

• lefat (“grandfather”)
• lemot (“grandmother”)
• dalefat (“great-grandfather”)
• dalemot (“great-grandmother”)
• röletan (“a relative, a relation”)