vole

See also: volé, volê, and vøle

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”). The Orkney dialectal name vole mouse, lit. "field mouse", was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊl/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

vole (plural voles)

Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

Derived terms

volelike
water vole

Translations

small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae

Breton: muenn f
Bulgarian: полевка (polevka), полска мишка (polska miška)
Catalan: talpó m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 田鼠 (zh) (tiánshǔ)
Czech: (every genus from Arvicolinae has got its specific Czech name): hryzec (genus Arvicola), hraboš (cs) (genus Microtus), norník (cs) (genus Myodes)
Danish: studsmus c
Dutch: veldmuis (nl), woelmuis (nl)
Esperanto: arvikolo
Finnish: myyrä (fi)
French: campagnol (fr) m
Friulian: surîs di campagne f
German: Wühlmaus (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: σμίνθος m (smínthos)
Hungarian: pocok (hu)
Irish: vól m
Italian: arvicola (it) f, campagnolo (it) m
Japanese: ハタネズミ (hatanezumi), 畑鼠 (ja) (hatanezumi)
Kazakh: тоқалтіс (toqaltıs)
Navajo: łeeyiʼ bitiiní
Occitan: rat de camp m, campanhòl m
Persian: ول‎ (fa) (vol)
Polish: nornica (pl) f, nornik (pl) m, polnik m
Portuguese: rato-do-campo m
Romanian: șoarece-de-câmp (ro) m
Romansch: mieur-sfuigna f
Russian: полёвка (ru) f (poljóvka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: волухар m, волухарица f
Latin: voluhar m, voluharica f
Slovene: voluhar (sl) m, voluharji pl
Spanish: campañol m, topillo m, rata de agua f
Swedish: sork (sv)
Vietnamese: chuột đồng (vi)
Welsh: llygoden (cy) f
West Flemish: tope f
West Frisian: wrotmûs

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

Cricetidae, but maybe not voles

Note: There is a systematic error in the entries below. "Vole" refers to hundreds of small rodent species living in all kinds of habitats. Many, but probably not all, of the translations refer to the "water vole", which is just one of the many species. When translating "vole" into other languages, one should look for words that refer to the voles as a group. Further details can be found on the Wikipedia articles on vole and on many of the species.

Albanian: ^{(please verify)} nuse e lalës
Basque: ^{(please verify)} ekialdeko ur-arratoi
Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} палеука (paljeuka)
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} arvikolo
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mügri
Faroese: ^{(please verify)} vatnrotta
Galician: ^{(please verify)} rato do campo
Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} vatnastúfa
Latvian: ^{(please verify)} ūdensžurka, ^{(please verify)} ūdeņu strupaste
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pelėnas
Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} воден стаорец (voden staorec)
Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ġurdien ta’ l-ilma
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} vånd (no)
Romani: ^{(please verify)} xurtso-nivako m, ^{(please verify)} xurtsaika-nivaki f
Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} topi de campagna, ^{(please verify)} sóriche de sartu
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} hryzec
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} tarla faresi (tr)
Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} полівка (polivka), ^{(please verify)} нориця (norycja)
Upper Sorbian: ^{(please verify)} swišć

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French vole.

Noun

vole (plural voles)

A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
  Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:
  With humble curate can I now retire,
  (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
  And at backgammon mortify my soul,
  That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

(card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], OCLC 43265629:
  no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vole in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

voll

Etymology

From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.

Adjective

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

full

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvolɛ]

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

vole m

vocative singular of vůl

Interjection

vole

(informal) man, dude

Usage notes

This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic [Term?] with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst.[1][2]

Noun

vole n

crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
(obsolete) goitre
Synonym: struma

Declension

Declension of vole

	singular	plural
nominative	vole	volata
genitive	volete	volat
dative	voleti	volatům
accusative	vole	volata
vocative	vole	volata
locative	voleti	volatech
instrumental	voletem	volaty

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vole

masculine singular present transgressive of volit

References

"vole" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adverb

vole

voluntarily

Derived terms

vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

Related terms

vola (“voluntary”)
voli (“to want, wish”)
volo (“volition; one's wish”)

French

Verb

vole

inflection of voler:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

love, lové
vélo

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French voler (“fly”).

Verb

vole

to fly

Interlingua

Verb

vole

present of voler
imperative of voler

Italian

Verb

vole

(archaic) third-person singular present indicative of volere

Synonyms

vuole

Anagrams

Elvo, levo, levò, velo, velò

Romanian

Noun

vole n (plural voleuri)

Obsolete form of voleu.

Declension

Declension of vole

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) vole	voleul	(niște) voleuri	voleurile
genitive/dative	(unui) vole	voleului	(unor) voleuri	voleurilor
vocative	voleule		voleurilor

References

vole in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vole

vocative singular of vol

Verb

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

Volapük

Noun

vole

dative singular of vol

Yola

Verb

vole

Alternative form of vall

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 76

[1] "vole" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

[2] Machek, Václav (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého, 2nd edition, Prague: Academia

vole

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

Verb

Further reading

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Adjective

Czech

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Interjection

Usage notes

Etymology 2

Noun

Declension

Etymology 3

Verb

References

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

Derived terms

Related terms

French

Verb

Anagrams

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Verb

Interlingua

Verb

Italian

Verb

Synonyms

Anagrams

Romanian

Noun

Declension

References

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

Verb

Volapük

Noun

Yola

Verb

References