pole

See also: Pole, połę, póle, półę, pôle, -pole, and поле

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
(New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /pɐʉl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
(US, Canada) IPA^(key): /poʊl/, [pʰoʊɫ], [pʰoəɫ]
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  (file)
Rhymes: -əʊl
Homophones: Pole, poll

Etymology 1

From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.

Cognates

Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).

Noun

pole (plural poles)

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
Meronyms: pole-guard, pole-hook, pole-hound, pole-pad, pole-pin, pole-pin-strap, pole-plate, pole-ring, pole-screen, pole-socket, pole-stop, pole-strap
Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar
(fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
(historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
(motor racing) Pole position.
(US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A gun.
(vulgar, slang) A penis.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:stick
(unit of length): rod

Derived terms

barge pole, bargepole
fishing pole
flagpole
hiking pole
hop pole
maypole
over-the-pole
pike pole
polearm
poleaxe
pole building
pole dance
pole position
polescreen
polespear
pole vault
punting pole
range pole
setting pole
telephone pole
tentpole
trekking pole
walking pole

Translations

long and slender object for construction or support

Albanian: shtagë (sq) f
Arabic: عَمُود‎ m (ʕamūd), قُطْب‎ m (quṭb)
Armenian: ձող (hy) (joł)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Avar: мокъ (moqxʼ)
Basque: haga
Bengali: কুতুব (qutub)
Breton: post (br) m, peul (br) m
Bulgarian: прът (bg) m (prǎt), стълб (bg) m (stǎlb)
Catalan: pal (ca)
Cebuano: usok
Chechen: бӏогӏам (bˀoğam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 杆子 (zh) (gānzi)
Czech: kůl (cs) m, tyč (cs) f
Danish: pæl c
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: boom (nl), paal (nl)
Esperanto: stango
Finnish: paalu (fi), pylväs (fi), salko (fi), tanko (fi), seiväs (fi), sauva (fi)
French: perche (fr) f
Friulian: pâl m
Galician: hasta (gl) f, vara (gl) f, poste m
Gallurese: stantagliu
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Stab (de) m, Stange (de) f
Greek: κοντάρι (el) n (kontári)
Ancient: κοντός m (kontós), κάμαξ f (kámax)
Hebrew: מוֹט‎ (he) m (mot), כְּלוֹנָס‎ (he) m (klonas)
Hungarian: rúd (hu), pózna (hu), cölöp (hu)
Ingush: бӏоагӏа (bˀoağa)
Irish: cuaille m
Italian: palo (it) m, asta (it) f, pertica (it) f
Japanese: 棒 (ja) (ぼう, bō), 竿 (ja) (さお, sao)
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
Latin: asser m, pertica f
Malay: galah, tiang (ms)
Maori: turupou, panoho (for propelling a boat)
Mongolian: багана (mn) (bagana)
Norwegian: stav m, stokk (no) m
Bokmål: stolpe m
Nynorsk: stolpe m
Persian: تیرک‎ (fa) (tirak), پالار‎ (fa) (pâlâr)
Plautdietsch: Pol m
Polish: pręt (pl) m, drąg (pl) m
Portuguese: vara (pt) f
Romanian: par (ro), stâlp (ro) m, drug (ro) m or f
Russian: жердь (ru) f (žerdʹ), шест (ru) m (šest)
Sardinian: palu, pau
Logudorese: albaranu, longupànte
Sassarese: asta
Scottish Gaelic: cabar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̏тка f
Roman: mȍtka (sh) f
Sicilian: palu (scn) m
Slovak: tyč f, palica (sk) f, kôl m, žrď (sk) f
Slovene: drog (sl) m, palica (sl) f
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: palo (es) m, garrocha (es) f, vara (es) f
Swahili: mlingoti (sw)
Swedish: stav (sv)
Tausug: usuk
Telugu: గడ కర్ర (gaḍa karra)
Turkish: direk (tr)
Umbundu: please add this translation if you can
Venetian: pało, pal
West Flemish: poale f
Zazaki: tirag, qutub

carriage pole — see beam

type of fishing rod

Bulgarian: пръчка (bg) f (prǎčka)
Finnish: vapa (fi)
Italian: canna (it), canna da pesca
Norwegian: trøe f
Polish: wędzisko n
Portuguese: caniço (pt) m
Turkish: please add this translation if you can

long and slender object for propelling a boat

Tausug: tukun

implement for pole-vaulting

Finnish: seiväs (fi)
Hungarian: rúd (hu)
Polish: tyczka (pl) f

telescope

Finnish: putki (fi)

unit of length

Czech: prut (cs) m (approx. 5m)
French: perche (fr) f
Italian: pertica (it) f
Polish: pręt (pl) m

motor racing: pole position — See also translations at pole position

Finnish: paalu (fi)

(vulgar) penis

Esperanto: borilo, fikilo, kaco (eo), kreskant-en-mano, suĉumino, ŝtopilo

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
to pole beans or hops
(transitive) To convey on poles.
to pole hay into a barn
(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
(transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
- 2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:
  Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.

Translations

propel by pushing with poles

Finnish: sauvoa (fi)
Hungarian: lök (hu)
Maori: toko, tītoko
Portuguese: varear

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pole (plural poles)

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function ${\\displaystyle f(z)}$ , any point ${\\displaystyle a}$ for which ${\\displaystyle f(z)\\rightarrow \\infty }$ as ${\\displaystyle z\\rightarrow a}$ .
The function ${\\displaystyle f(z)={\\frac {1}{z-3}}}$ has a single pole at ${\\displaystyle z=3}$ .
(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:
  And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,
  page 211
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

Antonyms

(complex analysis): zero

Derived terms

Terms derived from pole (Etymology 2)

dipole
hexadecapole
hexapole
interpole
monopole
multipole
north pole
octupole
polar
polarity
poles apart
polestar, pole star
quadrupole
south pole
tripole

Translations

extreme of an axis

Arabic: قُطْب‎ m (quṭb)
Armenian: բևեռ (hy) (beweṙ)
Belarusian: по́люс m (póljus)
Bengali: কুতুব (kutubô)
Bulgarian: по́люс (bg) m (póljus)
Catalan: pol (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 極／极 (zh) (jí)
Czech: pól (cs) m
Danish: pol c
Dutch: pool (nl) m or f
Esperanto: poluso
Finnish: napa (fi)
French: pôle (fr)
Galician: polo (gl) m
Georgian: პოლუსი (ṗolusi)
German: Pol (de) m
Greek: πόλος (el) m (pólos)
Hebrew: קוטב \\ קֹטֶב‎ (he) m (kótev)
Hungarian: sarkpont, sark (hu), pólus (hu)
Icelandic: póll (is) m
Irish: pol m
Italian: polo (it) m
Japanese: 極 (ja) (きょく, kyoku)
Korean: 극(極) (ko) (geuk)
Macedonian: пол m (pol)
Malay: kutub (ms)
Maori: pito, tōpito
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pol m
Occitan: pòl (oc) m
Persian: قطب‎ (fa) (qotb)
Polish: biegun (pl) m
Portuguese: polo (pt) m, extremidade (pt) f
Romanian: pol (ro) m
Russian: по́люс (ru) m (póljus)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̑л m
Roman: pȏl (sh) m
Slovak: pól m
Slovene: pol (sl) m
Spanish: polo (es) m
Swedish: pol (sv) c
Tajik: қутб (qutb)
Turkish: kutup (tr)
Ukrainian: по́люс m (póljus)
Welsh: pegwn m

magnetic point

Albanian: pol (sq) m
Arabic: قُطْب‎ m (quṭb)
Armenian: բևեռ (hy) (beweṙ)
Azerbaijani: qütb (az)
Bashkir: полюс (polyus)
Belarusian: по́люс m (póljus)
Bengali: কুতুব (kutubô)
Bulgarian: по́люс (bg) m (póljus)
Burmese: ပိုစွန်း (my) (puicwan:)
Catalan: pol (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 極／极 (zh) (jí)
Czech: pól (cs) m
Danish: pol c
Dutch: pool (nl) m or f
Estonian: poolus
Finnish: napa (fi)
French: pôle (fr)
Galician: polo (gl) m
Georgian: პოლუსი (ṗolusi)
German: Pol (de) m
Greek: πόλος (el) m (pólos)
Hebrew: קוטב \\ קֹטֶב‎ (he) m (kótev)
Hindi: ध्रुव (hi) m (dhruv), क़ुतुब m (qutub)
Hungarian: pólus (hu)
Icelandic: póll (is) m
Indonesian: kutub (id)
Irish: pol m
Italian: polo (it) m
Japanese: 極 (ja) (きょく, kyoku)
Kazakh: полюс (polüs), үйек (kk) (üiek)
Khmer: អក្ខោសាន (ʼakkhaosaan), ប៉ូល (poul)
Korean: 극(極) (ko) (geuk)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: cemser (ku)
Kyrgyz: полюс (polyus), уюл (ky) (uyul)
Lao: ຂົ້ວ (lo) (khūa)
Latvian: pols m
Lithuanian: ašigalis m
Macedonian: пол m (pol)
Malay: kutub (ms)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: туйл (mn) (tujl)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pol m
Occitan: pòl (oc) m
Pashto: قطب‎ (ps) m
Persian: قطب‎ (fa) (qotb)
Polish: biegun (pl) m
Portuguese: polo (pt) m
Romanian: pol (ro) m
Russian: по́люс (ru) m (póljus)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̑л m
Roman: pȏl (sh) m
Slovak: pól m
Slovene: tečaj (sl) m, pol (sl) m
Spanish: polo (es) m
Swedish: pol (sv) c
Tagalog: taluktok, polo
Tajik: қутб (qutb)
Tatar: котып (tt) (qotıp)
Thai: ขั้ว (th) (kûua), ขั้วโลก (th) (kûua-lôok) (pole of the Earth)
Turkish: kutup (tr)
Turkmen: polýus
Ukrainian: по́люс m (póljus)
Urdu: قطب‎ m (qutub)
Uyghur: قۇتۇپ‎ (qutup)
Uzbek: qutb (uz), polyus
Veps: naba
Vietnamese: cực (vi)
Yiddish: פּאָלוס‎ (polus)

contact on an electrical device

Arabic: قُطْب‎ m (quṭb)
Belarusian: по́люс m (póljus)
Bulgarian: по́люс (bg) m (póljus)
Czech: pól (cs) m
Finnish: napa (fi)
Galician: polo (gl) m
German: Pol (de) m
Hungarian: pólus (hu)
Irish: pol m
Italian: polo (it) m
Japanese: 極 (ja) (きょく, kyoku)
Korean: 극(極) (ko) (geuk)
Macedonian: пол m (pol)
Maori: pito
Polish: biegun (pl) m
Portuguese: polo (pt) m
Russian: по́люс (ru) (póljus)
Slovak: pól m
Spanish: polo (es) m
Ukrainian: по́люс m (póljus)

isolated point of a meromorphic function (complex analysis)

Czech: pól (cs) m
Finnish: napa (fi)
Galician: polo (gl) m
German: Polstelle (de) f, Pol (de) m
Japanese: 極 (ja) (きょく, kyoku)
Korean: 극(極) (ko) (geuk)
Polish: biegun (pl) m
Portuguese: polo (pt) m
Russian: по́люс (ru) m (póljus)
Spanish: polo (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Georgian: ^{(please verify)} პოლუსი (ṗolusi), ^{(please verify)} ჭოკი (č̣oḳi)
Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} sark (hu)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} polo (it) m
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ధృవం (te) (dhr̥vaṁ)

Verb

pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)

(transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Anagrams

LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-

Aiwoo

Verb

pole

to work (in a garden or field)

References

Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German boln.

Verb

pole

(Uri) to make noise, clatter, rumble

References

Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *poľe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpolɛ]
audio (file)

Noun

pole n

(agriculture) field
(physics) field
(algebra) field
Synonym: komutativní těleso
(computing) field
(programming) array

Declension

Declension of pole

	singular	plural
nominative	pole	pole
genitive	pole	polí
dative	poli	polím
accusative	pole	pole
vocative	pole	pole
locative	poli	polích
instrumental	polem	poli

Derived terms

políčko

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adverb

pole

in Polish

Estonian

Etymology

Contraction of ep ole (Modern: ei ole). ep is the old 3rd person singular form of the negative verb.

Verb

pole

Alternative form of ei ole

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin pollen.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

pollen
(motor racing) Pole position.

Synonyms

primeira posición

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pole

Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) present indicative of pulir

Latin

Noun

pole

vocative singular of polus

References

pole in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“pole”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lɛ/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
Syllabification: po‧le

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (whence English plain, plane, plan, piano, clan, plant, planet, place, floor, and flake).

Noun

pole n (diminutive poletko)

field (land area; wide open space)
(regional, singular only) outside
(geometry) area
(physics) field
(computing) field

Declension

Declension of pole

	singular	plural
nominative	pole	pola
genitive	pola	pól
dative	polu	polom
accusative	pole	pola
instrumental	polem	polami
locative	polu	polach
vocative	pole	pola

Derived terms

nouns

biopole
pole biologiczne
pole namiotowe
zapole

verb

szukać wiatru w polu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pole f

dative/locative singular of poła

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pole (Cyrillic spelling поле)

vocative singular of pol

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *poľe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpole]

Noun

pole n

field

Declension

Declension of pole

	singular	plural
nominative	pole	polia
genitive	poľa	polí
dative	poľu	poliam
accusative	pole	polia
locative	poli	poliach
instrumental	poľom	poľami/poliami

Derived terms

poľný

Spanish

Etymology 1

From English pole position.

Noun

pole m (plural poles)

(motor racing) pole position
Synonym: primera posición

Verb

pole

inflection of polir:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Swahili

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Interjection

pole (plural poleni)

sorry

Adjective

-pole (declinable)

calm, gentle

Inflection

Inflected forms of -pole

Noun class	singular	plural
M-wa class	mpole	wapole
M-mi class	mpole	mipole
Ma class	pole	mapole
Ki-vi class	kipole	vipole
N class	pole	pole
U class	mpole	pole
Pa class	papole	papole
Ku class	kupole	kupole
Mu class	mupole	mupole

Derived terms

Nominal derivations:
- upole (“gentleness”)

pole

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

Anagrams

Aiwoo

Verb

References

Alemannic German

Etymology

Verb

References

Czech

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

Estonian

Etymology

Verb

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

Latin

Noun

References

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

Slovak

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

Verb

Swahili

Pronunciation

Interjection

See also

Adjective

Inflection

Derived terms