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Belarusian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
пол • (pol) m inan (genitive по́лу, nominative plural по́лы, genitive plural по́лаў, relational adjective палавы́)
- sex, gender
- мужчы́нскі пол ― mužčýnski pol ― masculine gender
- жано́чы пол ― žanóčy pol ― feminine gender
Declension
Declension of пол (inan hard masc-form accent-a)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
пол • (pol) m inan (genitive по́ла, nominative plural палы́, genitive plural пало́ў, diminutive пало́к)
- (archaic) bunk, berth, pallet, plank bed (a fixed built-in bed, designed as a part of a room, train car, prison cell, etc.)
- Synonyms: пала́ткі (palátki), пала́ці (paláci), на́ры (náry)
- 1931 [1921], Jaroslav Hašek, translated by Міхась Зарэцкі, У тыле (Прыгоды ўдалага ваякі Швэйка; 1), Менск: БДВ, translation of Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (in Czech), page 91; English translation from Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974, page 96:
- Памаліўся, значыць, і палез за сваімі клумкамі пад пол. Што і казаць клумкі тамака былі, але худыя, зморшчаныя, як сушаная сьлівіна.
- Pamaliŭsja, značycʹ, i paljez za svaimi klumkami pad pol. Što i kazacʹ klumki tamaka byli, alje xudyja, zmórščanyja, jak sušanaja sʹlivina.
- And so this time he prayed and then looked for his knapsacks under his bunk. Yes, the knapsacks were there, but they were dried up and shrunk like dried prunes.
- (literally, “And so he prayed and reached for his knapsacks under his bunk. Needles to say, the knapsacks were there, but they were shrunk and wrinkled like a dried plum.”)
- 1994, Віктар Цітоў, Народная спадчына: матэрыяльная культура ў лакальна-тыпалагічнай разнастайнасці, Мінск: Навука і тэхніка, →ISBN, page 99:
- Частку памяшкання ад тарцовай (кутняй) сцяны займаў спальны памост — пол, тут ляжалі напханы сенам ці саломай сяннік, падушкі, посцілкі, часам памост падзяляўся на дзве часткі ўзорным тканым полагам.
- Častku pamjaškannja ad tarcóvaj (kutnjaj) scjany zajmaŭ spalʹny pamóst — pol, tut ljažali napxany sjenam ci salómaj sjannik, paduški, póscilki, časam pamóst padzjaljaŭsja na dzvje častki ŭzórnym tkanym pólaham.
- A part of the room adjacent to (the corner of) the shorter wall was occupied by a fixture for sleeping — a bunk. A mattress stuffed with hay or straw, pillows and bedding laid there. Sometimes this construct was divided into two parts by a decorated woven screen.
Declension
Declension of пол (inan hard masc-form accent-c)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “пол” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
- “пол”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)
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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Church Slavonic полъ (polŭ), from Proto-Slavic *polъ. Cognates include Belarusian пол (pol), Russian пол (pol), Macedonian пол (pol), Serbo-Croatian по̑л, Polish pół.
Noun
пол • (pol) m
Declension
Derived terms
Numeral
пол • (pol)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *pólъ.
Noun
пол • (pol) m
Declension
Etymology 3
Likely from Romanian pol (“napoleon (gold coin)”), in turn likely a loan of Russian пол (pol, “half”).
Noun
пол • (pol) m
Declension
References
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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Noun
Noun
пол • (pol) m (relational adjective поларен)
- pole (Earth)
Declension
Russian
Alternative forms
- полъ (pol) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old East Slavic полъ (polŭ), from Proto-Slavic *polъ.
Noun
пол • (pol) m inan (genitive по́ла, nominative plural полы́, genitive plural поло́в, relational adjective полово́й, diminutive по́лик)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Related to пол- (pol-, “half”), from Old East Slavic полъ (polŭ), from Proto-Slavic *polъ.
Noun
пол • (pol) m inan (genitive по́ла, nominative plural по́лы, genitive plural поло́в, relational adjective полово́й)
Declension
See also
Etymology 3
Adjective
пол • (pol)
Etymology 4
Noun
пол • (pol) f inan pl
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).
Pronunciation
Noun
по̑л m (Latin spelling pȏl)
- pole (magnetic, positive, negative etc.)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
по̑л m (Latin spelling pȏl)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) sex (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) gender
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From по̏ла.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Particle
по̑л (Latin spelling pȏl)
- half
- сат и по(л) — an hour and a half
- три и по м(ј)есеца — three and a half months
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