paal

From Dutch paal, from Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, borrowed from Latin pālus.

• IPA^(key): /pɑːl/

paal (plural pale, diminutive paaltjie)

1. post, pole, beam

• doelpaal
• paaldanser

• → Tsonga: pala
• → Xhosa: ipala

páal

1. mortar (for pounding and grinding)

• IPA^(key): /paːl/
• Hyphenation: paal
• Rhymes: -aːl
• Homophone: Paal

From Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, borrowed from Latin pālus.

paal m (plural palen, diminutive paaltje n)

1. post, stake, pole, pile
2. (sports) goalpost

   Synonym: doelpaal

3. (heraldry) pale, perpendicular stripe
4. (euphemistic) erect phallus
5. an Indonesian measure of distance

• Afrikaans: paal
  • → Tsonga: pala
  • → Xhosa: ipala
• → Caribbean Hindustani: pál
• → Caribbean Javanese: pal
• → Guyanese Creole English: paal
• → Indonesian: pal (“milestone”)
• → Papiamentu: palu

From Middle Dutch pāle, borrowed from Middle French pale, from Latin pala.

paal f (plural palen, diminutive paaltje n)

1. peel, baker's instrument

   Synonym: ovenpaal

• palen
• handpaal
• koekepaal
• paaloren
• paaloore

Borrowed French pâle (“pale”).

paal (comparative paler, superlative paalst)

1. pale
2. faded, discolored

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paal

1. inflection of palen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

paal

1. (Laven and Juk) shoulder

• Theraphan L-Thongkum, A brief look at thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong province, southern Laos (2002), Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages (edited by Robert Stuart Bauer)

IPA^(key): /pàːl/

paal (plural paalal or paaloʼob or paalaloʼob)

1. child
   • 2008, Briceida Cuevas Cob, “Je’ bix k’iin”, in Tiʼ u billil in nookʼ. Del dobladillo de mi ropa, Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, page 94:

     ka pulik u ok’om óolal jo’oljeak ka jíits’tik tu billil a nook’, / a paalal túune’ tu wenel.

     you throw yesterday's sorrows, drawn from the hem of your clothes, / while your children sleep.

   • 2023 February 13, Cecilia Abreu, “Múuch’kabilo’obe’ ku múul meyajo’ob ti’al uti’al u séeb ila’al wa tsaayal ts’unus ti’ paalal”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-19:

     Walkila’ yaan kex 100 u túul paalal táan u ts’a’akalo’ob, ba’ale’ ja’ab man ja’abe’ ku yantal kex 75 uláak’ túumben paalal yéetel le k’oja’anila’.

     Currently, there are about 100 children receiving treatment, but each year there are around 75 more children [diagnosed] with this disease.