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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊl/, [pʰɒʊɫ]
  • (doll–dole merger) IPA^(key): /pɒl/, [pʰɒɫ]
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /poʊl/, [pʰoʊɫ]

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /pəʉl/, [pʰəʉɫ], [pʰɐʉɫ]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɐʉl/, [pʰɐʉɫ]
• (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)

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.

pole (plural poles)

1. 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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 26:

     There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda."

2. A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.

   Synonyms: carriage pole, beam, shaft, drawbar

   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

3. (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
4. A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
5. (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
6. (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
7. (motor racing) Ellipsis of pole position.
8. (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
9. (vulgar, slang) A penis.
10. (cricket, slang) A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.

    Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.

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

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

1. 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.

2. To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

   He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

3. (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.

   to pole beans or hops

4. (transitive) To convey on poles.

   to pole hay into a barn

5. (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
6. (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.

7. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.

   to pole copper

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

pole (plural poles)

1. Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
2. A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
3. (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.

   In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.

   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 194:

     Genuine music is the offspring of profound emotion: of exaltation, pain, or joy. Music produced outside of a situation between these poles of the human heart is of banal character, bloodless, watery.

4. (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
6. (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
7. (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function $f\left(z\right)$, any point $a$ for which $f\left(z\right)\to \infty$ as $z\to a$.

   The function $f\left(z\right)=\frac{1}{z-3}$ has a single pole at $z=3$.

8. (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; 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:

     And the slope sun his upward beam / Shoots against the dusky pole,

     page 211

9. Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.

• (antonym(s) of “complex analysis”): zero

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

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

• LEPO, lope, olpe, pleo-

pole

1. to work (in a garden or field)

• Næss, Åshild (2017), “pole”, in A short dictionary of Äiwoo (Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia; A-PL 35)‎^[2], Canberra, ACT: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, page 99
• Ross, Malcolm; Næss, Åshild (December 2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics‎^[3], volume 46, number 2, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, →DOI, pages 456–98

From Middle High German boln.

pole

1. (Urseren) to make noise, clatter, rumble

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

Inherited from Old Czech pole, from Proto-Slavic *poľe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolɛ]

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pole n (diminutive políčko)

1. (agriculture) field
2. (physics) field
3. (algebra) field

   Synonym: komutativní těleso

4. (computing) field
5. (programming) array

• “pole”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pole”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pole”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈpole/

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• Rhymes: -ole
• Syllabification: po‧le

pole

1. in Polish

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

pole

1. contraction of ei +‎ ole

Inherited from Latin pollen.

pole m (plural poles)

1. pollen
2. (motor racing) pole position

• primeira posición

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pole

1. third-person singular present indicative of pulir

pole

1. vocative singular of polus

• "pole", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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

Inherited from Proto-South Sulawesi, *pa- +‎ *ole (“again, return”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pa- +‎ *uliq (“return home; return something; restore, repair; repeat; motion to and from”), Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puliq (“to restore; to return”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpole/, [ˈpʰɔ.lɛ]
• Hyphenation: po‧le

pole (Lontara spelling ᨄᨚᨒᨙ or 𑻣𑻶𑻮𑻵)

1. (intransitive) to return; to come back

   Tapoleai pakkekea

   The spade does not return (idiomatic: the spade stays at the cemetery due to the sheer number of corpses that need to be buried, e.g., during an epidemic).

   Tapoleai parea

   The rice does not return (idiomatic: no rice grows this year).

2. (intransitive, obsolete, poetic) to come; to arrive

   Pole takkappomi ritimunganna embaya

   They had safely arrived at the gate of the yard.

   Anging battua riBarrang polea riKodinareng

   The wind blowing from Barrang, coming from Kodinareng.

pole (Lontara spelling ᨄᨚᨒᨙ or 𑻣𑻶𑻮𑻵)

1. again; back; in return

   Nupanraki pole radioku

   You broke my radio again.

2. moreover; additionally; on top of that

   Nisarei kanre jawa, rappo-rappo kayu, doeʼ pole

   He is given cakes, fruits, and money on top of that.

   Naia jumallana oloʼ-oloʼ nipelaka, tallussaʼbu tedong, jaranga pole siapatong jaina

   The number of abandoned animals is 3,000 water buffaloes, and additionally horses, who knows how many.

3. too; also

   Ikau pole ― And you too (e.g., when scolding someone).

   Iatong pole ― That too.

4. else (used in interrogative contexts)

   Inaipa pole anciniki kabajikanna aringku ponna tainakkea?

   Who else would see to my younger sister's well-being if not me?

pole (Lontara spelling ᨄᨚᨒᨙ or 𑻣𑻶𑻮𑻵)

1. (transitive) to fulfill a vow or promise

   Ammole tinjaʼ ― To fulfill a vow.

   Polei tinjaʼnu ― Fulfill your vow.

2. (transitive) to convey or deliver a message

   Ampolei timu-timunnu

   Delivering your message; carrying out your order.

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /pole/

pole

1. to come

• Nadia Almira Sagitta (2016), Kamus Mandar-Indonesia‎^[4], page 21

From Old English pāl, from Latin pālus.

• pol, poll, pall, paal

• IPA^(key): /pɔːl/, /pɔl/

pole (plural poles)

1. pole, stake, staff

• English: pole
• Scots: pale, pall
• Yola: pulmere

• “pōl(e, n.²”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

pole

1. alternative form of pol

Borrowed from Swahili pole.

póle

1. sorry

   pole ma kasul!

   sorry for washing (the clothes)!

• Wellens, Ineke (2005), The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN, page 193

• poľe (alternative writing)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpolɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpolɛ/

pole n

1. field (land area; wide open space)

   polem / na poli ― outside

   přěs pole přějěti/jězditi ― to have sex

2. plain
3. battlefield, battleground

   polem / v poli ležěti ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Czech: pole

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “pole”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.le/

pōle

1. dative singular of pōl

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍľe. First attested in 1250.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /pɔlʲɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /pɔlʲɛ/

pole n (related adjective polny)

1. field (arable land)
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Ex”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 9, 25:

     Zbyl gest grad we wszey szemy egipskyey wszitko, czsosz bilo na polyech (in agris)

     [Zbił jest grad we wszej ziemi ejipskiej wszytko, csoż było na polech (in agris)]

   • 1962 [c. 1420], Stanisław Urbańczyk, editor, Wokabularz trydencki‎^[5], number 7:

     Rus pole, inde rusticus

     [Rus pole, inde rusticus]

2. (figuratively, attested in Sieradz-Łęczyca, Greater Poland) crops from a field
   • 1415, Przecław Słota, O zachowaniu się przy stole‎^[6], Łęczyca, Poznań, line 4:

     Sgarne na szø wszytko pole, ... czszole szø na niwe swøze, tho wszytko na stole løsze

     [Zgarnie na się wszytko pole, ... csole się na niwie swięże, to wszytko na stole lęże]

3. (attested in Lesser Poland) field (open land)
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 4, 8:

     A gdisz na polu (in agro) bilasta, podnosl szø Kayn ku Ablowy

     [A gdyż na polu (in agro) byłasta, podniosł się Kain ku Ablowi]

   • 1962-1975 [1439], Stanisław Kuraś, Irena Sułkowska-Kuraś, editors, Zbiór dokumentów małopolskich [A collection of documents from Lesser Poland]‎^[7], volume II, Lesser Poland, page 311:

     Quia ex recognicione fratrum predictorum... cessit castrum Bankowecz cum villis..., item in campo al. w polyu ville Gebolthow, et utraque Cowalicow, Maloschow... de his fratri predicto iuniori cesserunt

     [Quia ex recognicione fratrum predictorum... cessit castrum Bąkowiec cum villis..., item in campo al. w polu ville Giebołtow, et utraque Kowalikow, Małoszow... de his fratri predicto iuniori cesserunt]

   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, numbers 131, 6, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     Naleszly gesmy gy w polech (in campis) lassa

     [Naleźli jeśmy ji w polech (in campis) lasa]

   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^{scan transliteration, transcription}, numbers 103, 12, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament]:

     Pycz bødzye wszytek zwyerz pola (agri)

     [Pić będzie wszytek źwierz pola (agri)]

4. (attested in Masovia) campsite; battlefield
   • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 15:

     Gydączy na woyną na ląnkach any we wszi staacz mayą, yano na polyv (nisi in campo)

     [Jidący na wojnę na łąkach ani we wsi stać mają, jano na polu (nisi in campo)]

5. outside (area not in a building)
   • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎^[8], page 132:

     Vyschly na polye (ad campum), nalyezly Yesvsa chodzącz y tam, y szam

     [Wyszli na pole i naleźli Jesusa chodząc i tam i sam]

6. (heraldry) background
   • 1856-1870 [1455], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki‎^[9], volume VII, number 610:

     Niccolaus post awam suam est de sangwine et armis ipsorum dictis Stanczowye, proclamacio autem ipsorum Nabra, deferentes in clipeo tres lineas vlg. trzy *polye in longitudine clipei

     [Niccolaus post awam suam est de sangwine et armis ipsorum dictis Stańcowie, proclamacio autem ipsorum Nabra, deferentes in clipeo tres lineas vlg. trzy pola in longitudine clipei5]

7. (attested in Greater Poland) corruption of opole
   • 1840 [1252], Edward Raczyński, editor, Kodex dyplomatyczny Wielkiej Polski zawierający bulle papieżów, nadania książąt, przywileje miast, klasztorów i wsi, wraz z innemi podobnej treści dyplomatami tyczącemi się historyi tej prowincyi od roku 1136 do roku 1597‎^[10], Greater Poland, page 257:

     Dedimus omnimodam libertatem... a podworowe, ab pole, a bove et vacca annuali

     [Dedimus omnimodam libertatem... a podworowe, ab pole, a bove et vacca annuali]

• Polish: pole
• Silesian: pole

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “pole”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017), “pole”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “pole”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “pole”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
• Syllabification: po‧le
• Homophones: Pole, Polę

Inherited from Old Polish pole. Doublet of polje.

pole n (diminutive pólko or poletko or (dialectal) poleńko, related adjective polny)

1. (Modern Standard Polish)
   1. (countable)
      1. (agriculture) field (land for cultivation)

         Synonyms: łan, niwa

      2. field (land designated for some activity)
      3. field (area characterized by some activity, i.e. battle)

         Synonym: teren

      4. (sports) field. ground, pitch
      5. field (part of some surface)
      6. field (extent of someone's interest or activities)

         Synonym: dziedzina

      7. (physics) field (physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region)
      8. (computing) field (area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls)
   2. (uncountable)
      1. (regional, Lesser Poland) outside (area not inside a building)

         Synonym: dwór

      2. field (freedom of action or choice) [with do (+ genitive) ‘for what’]

         Synonym: możliwość

      3. (mathematics) field (number that expresses the area of a given geometric figure in square units)

         Synonym: powierzchnia

2. (dialectal)
   1. (Western Kraków, Czarnuchowice, Szczodrkowice, Eastern Kraków, Gdów, Bochnia, Targowisko, Moszczenica, Podhale, Rabka-Zdrój, Pieniążkowice, Skawa, Odrowąż) outside (area not inside a building)
   2. (Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) synonym of skrzydło / rondo (“brim of clothing”)
   3. (Near Masovian, Jagodne) synonym of bryt (“strip of clothing”)
3. (obsolete)
   1. background (part of an image that is not the main part)
   2. (anatomy) group of nerve cells located close to each other in the central nervous system and performing the same function
   3. (hunting) synonym of łowisko (“hunting ground”)
   4. measure of land
4. (Middle Polish)
   1. (chess) field (area on a chessboard)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pole is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 6 times in news, 17 times in essays, 28 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 108 times, making it the 581st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

See podle.

pole

1. (Kuyavia, Brześć Kujawski, Wieniec, Kowal, Bogusławice, Central Greater Poland, Oborniki, Szamotuły, Czeszewo, Środa Wielkopolska, Dębicz, Eastern Greater Poland, Szołajdy, Near Masovian, Płochocin, Łowicz, Łęczyca, Mazew, Zgierz) alternative form of podle (“next to, near”)

   (Kuyavia, Kościelna Wieś) synonym of w (“after, used with repeated nouns to denote constant frequency”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pole f

1. dative/locative singular of poła

• Modern Standard Polish:
  • “pole”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[11] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • “pole”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[12] (in Polish)
  • Zygmunt Saloni, et al., editors (2020), “pole”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[13], 4. online edition, Warszawa
• Middle Polish:
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (2010-2023), “pole”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Dorota Adamiec (25.03.2019), “POLE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Historic dictionaries:
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “pole”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “pole”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “pole”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 525
• Dialectal dictionaries:
  • Jan Karłowicz (1901), “koło słówko”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 2: F do K, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 406
  • Jan Karłowicz (1906), “pole”, in Jan Łoś, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 4: P, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 231
  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1916), “pole”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary wielkopolskiej”, in Prace Filologiczne‎^[14] (in Polish), volume 8, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 97
  • Halina Świderska (1929), “pole”, in Dialekt Księstwa Łowickiego (in Polish), Warsaw, →ISBN, page 125

pole (Cyrillic spelling поле)

1. vocative singular of pol

Inherited from Old Polish pole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
• Syllabification: po‧le

pole n (related adjective polny)

1. field (open earth, especially for cultivation)
2. (computing) field (area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls)
3. (Cieszyn) (singular only) outside

   Synonyms: dwōr, plac

   Idym na pole. ― I'm going outside.

• pole in dykcjonorz.eu
• pole in silling.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poľe. First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔʎe/, (high register) [ˈpɔʎe], (common) [ˈpɔle]
• Rhymes: -ɔʎe
• Hyphenation: po‧le

pole n (relational adjective poľný, diminutive políčko)

1. field

• Peciar, Štefan, editor (1959–1968), “pole”, in Slovník slovenského jazyka [Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–6 (A – Ž; Doplnky, Dodatky), Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo SAV, →OCLC
• “pole”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Borrowed from English pole position.

pole m (plural poles)

1. (motor racing) pole position

   Synonym: primera posición

pole

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

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-póda.

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pole (plural poleni)

1. sorry

• samahani

-pole (declinable)

1. calm, gentle

• Verbal derivations:
  • Reduplicative: -polepole

• Nominal derivations:
  • upole (“gentleness”)

• → Nubi: pole

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