Pole

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pole"

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
  • (doll–dole merger) IPA^(key): /pɒl/, [pʰɒɫ]
• (New Zealand, Australia) IPA^(key): /pɐʉl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /poʊl/, [pʰoʊɫ], [pʰoəɫ]

  • Audio (US):

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /pol/, [pʰoɫ]
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /poːl/, [pʰoːɫ]
• Rhymes: -əʊl
• (toe–tow merger) Homophones: pole, poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)

Etymology 1

From German Pole.

Noun

Pole (plural Poles)

2. A person from Poland or of Polish descent.
   • 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 626:

     The Poles are well dressed, handsome, and somehow on a larger scale than their surroundings, as if they have grown since the war and Poland itself has not.

Synonyms

• Polander (archaic)

Derived terms

• Poless

Translations

person from Poland

• Afrikaans: Pool
• Albanian: polak (sq) m, polonez (sq) m
• Arabic: بُولَنْدِيّ m (bulandiyy), بُولَنْدِيّ m (bōlandiyy), بُولَنْدِيَّة (ar) f (bulandiyya), بُولَنْدِيَّة (ar) f (bōlandiyya)
• Armenian: լեհ (hy) (leh)

  Middle Armenian: լեհ (leh)

• Asturian: polacu (ast) m, polaca (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: polyak
• Bashkir: поляк (puläk)
• Belarusian: паля́к m (palják), по́лька f (pólʹka), паля́чка f (paljáčka); (somewhat pejorative) лях m (ljax), ля́шка f (ljáška)
• Bengali: পোলীয় (bn) (pōliẏo)
• Bulgarian: поля́к (bg) m (polják), поляки́ня (bg) f (poljakínja), поля́че (bg) n (poljáče) (child), поля́кинче (bg) n (poljákinče) (girl)
• Carpathian Rusyn: поля́к m (polják), по́лька f (pólʹka)
• Catalan: polonès (ca) m, polonesa (ca) f
• Chechen: поляк (poljak)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 波蘭人 / 波兰人 (bo¹ laan⁴ jan⁴)

  Mandarin: 波蘭人 / 波兰人 (zh) (bōlánrén)

• Cornish: Polak m, Polakes f
• Czech: Polák (cs) m, Polka (cs) f
• Danish: polak (da) c
• Dutch: Pool (nl) m, Poolse (nl) f
• Esperanto: polo (eo) (man or woman), polino (woman)
• Estonian: poolakas (et)
• Faroese: póllendingur m
• Finnish: puolalainen (fi)
• French: Polonais (fr) m, Polonaise (fr) f
• Galician: polonés (gl) m
• Georgian: პოლონელი (ṗoloneli)
• German: Pole (de) m, Polin (de) f
• Greek: Πολωνός (el) m (Polonós), Πολωνίδα f (Polonída)
• Hawaiian: Pōlani
• Hebrew: פּוֹלָנִי m (polaní), פּוֹלָנִית (he) f (polanít)
• Hindi: पोल (hi) (pol), पोलिश (hi) (poliś)
• Hungarian: lengyel (hu), (archaic) polyák (hu)
• Icelandic: Pólverji m
• Ingrian: poljakka
• Irish: Polannach
• Italian: polacco (it) m, polacca (it) f
• Japanese: ポーランド人 (ja) (ポーランドじん, pōrandojin)
• Kashubian: Pòlôch m, Pòlôszka f
• Kazakh: поляк (polyak), польшалық (polʹšalıq)
• Korean: 폴란드인 (ko) (pollandeu'in), 폴란드 사람 (pollandeu saram)
• Kyrgyz: поляк (ky) (polyak)
• Latvian: polis (lv) m, poliete f
• Lithuanian: lenkas (lt) m, lenkė (lt) f
• Macedonian: Полјак m (Poljak), Полјачка f (Poljačka)
• Mongolian: польш хүн (polʹš xün)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: polakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: polakk (nn) m

• Old East Slavic: лѧхъ m (lęxŭ)
• Persian: لهستانی (fa) (lahestâni)
• Polish: Polak (pl) m, Polka (pl) f
• Portuguese: polonês (pt) m, polonesa f (Brazil), polaco (pt) f, polaca (pt) f
• Romanian: polonez (ro) m, poloneză (ro) f, polon (ro) m, polonă (ro)
• Russian: поля́к (ru) m (polják), по́лька (ru) f (pólʹka), поля́чка (ru) f (poljáčka), лях (ru) m (ljax) (historical, now sometimes slightly derogatory or ironic), ля́шка (ru) f (ljáška) (fem. equivalent of лях)
• Samogitian: lėnks
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòlainneach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: По̀ља̄к m, Поља̀киња f

  Latin: Pòljāk (sh) m, Poljàkinja f

• Silesian: Polok m, Polka f
• Slovak: Poliak m, Polka f
• Slovene: Polják (sl) m, Poljákinja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Pólak m, Pólka f

• Spanish: polaco (es) m, polaca (es) f
• Swahili: Mpoli (sw) sg, Wapoli (sw) pl
• Swedish: (general) polack (sv), (female, only used if gender is important) polska (sv)
• Tajik: лаҳистонӣ (lahistoni), полякӣ (tg) (polyaki)
• Tatar: поляк (polâk)
• Thai: ชาวโปแลนด์
• Turkish: Polonyalı (tr), Leh (tr), Polonez (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: له (leh)

• Turkmen: polýak
• Ukrainian: поля́к (uk) m (polják), по́лька f (pólʹka), поля́чка f (poljáčka), лях m (ljax), ля́шка f (ljáška) (fem. equivalent of лях)
• Uyghur: پولەك (polek)
• Uzbek: polyak (uz)
• Venetan: połaco
• Vietnamese: người Ba Lan
• Vilamovian: Pöła
• Volapük: Polänan (vo) m or f, hi-Polänan m, ji-Polänan f
• Welsh: Pwyliad m or f, Pwyles f
• Yiddish: פּאָליאַק m (polyak) (non-Jewish), פּאָליאַטשקע f (polyatshke) (non-Jewish), פּאָליאַנער m (polyaner) (Jewish)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Pole

1. A surname.

Alternative forms

• de la Pole (archaic)

Anagrams

• LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch Polen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊə.lə/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Pole

1. Poland (a country in Central Europe; capital and largest city: Warskou)

Related terms

• Pool
• Pools

Noun

Pole

1. plural of Pool

German

Alternative forms

• Pohle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoːlə/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -oːlə

Etymology 1

From Middle High German *Pole or *Polen (attested as Polen m pl), from Old Polish polanín, from Proto-Slavic *poľaninъ (literally “field-dweller”), derived from *pȍľe (“field”). The Middle High German form may have been a strong noun in -en in light of polnisch; the weak form is then a backformation (cf. Heide, Rabe etc.).

Noun

Pole m (weak, genitive Polen, plural Polen, feminine Polin)

1. Pole

Declension

Declension of Pole [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Pole	die	Polen
genitive	eines	des	Polen	der	Polen
dative	einem	dem	Polen	den	Polen
accusative	einen	den	Polen	die	Polen

Derived terms

• Polentum
• polnisch
• Ruhrpole
• Wasserpole

Related terms

• Polen

Descendants

• → English: Pole

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Pole m

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Pol
2. (archaic) dative singular of Pol

Further reading

• “Pole” in Duden online
• “Pole”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoːlə/
• Rhymes: -oːlə
• Syllabification: Po‧le

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Polen.

Proper noun

Pole n

1. Poland (a country in Central Europe)

Related terms

• Polack
• polnisch

See also

countries in Europe: ëuropäische Land (appendix)edit

• Belche
• Deitschland
• Eesterreich
• England
• Finnland
• Frankreich
• Griecheland
• Italje ~ Italia
• Luxemborrich
• Nitterlande
• Pole
• Portugal
• Russland
• Schweiz
• Spanje

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Pole

1. plural of Pol