gal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

From gallon.

Etymology 2

Representing a nonstandard pronunciation of girl.

Etymology 3

Shortened from galileo.

See also

• guy

Anagrams

• AGL, Alg., GLA, LAG, lag

Etymology

From Dutch; see below. Cognate to English gall.

Noun

gal (plural [please provide])

1. The bodily fluid bile

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɑl

Noun

gal f (uncountable)

1. The bodily fluid bile

Anagrams

• alg, lag

Noun

gal m

1. cock

Noun

gal m (plural gals)

1. A unit of acceleration equal to one centimetre per second per second

Etymology

From gala (“to crow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

gal n (genitive singular gals, no plural)

1. crowing (of a rooster)
2. yelling

Etymology

From Old Irish gal, from Proto-Celtic *galā (“ability”) (compare Welsh gallu (“be able”)).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡɑl̪ˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡal̪ˠ/

Noun

gal f, m (genitive singular gaile, nominative plural gala)

1. warlike ardor
2. valor, fury
3. vapor, steam
4. boiling heat
5. puff, whiff (of smoke, hot air)
6. fit, bout, turn
7. demand

Mutation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡaːl]

Conjunction

gál

1. maybe, perhaps

Alternative forms

• gol

Etymology

From Old English gāl (“lust, luxury, wantonness, folly, levity”), see below.

Adjective

gal

1. lascivious, lustful

   nawt ane euch fleschlich hondlunge, ah ᵹetten euch gal word ... — Ancrene Wisse, c1230

   Sweche pinen he þolien schal þat her wes of his fles ful gal And wolde louien his fleses wil. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300

2. overly fond of

   Gripes freteþ hoere mawen And hoere inward everuidel, Ne be þe þarof no so gal, Eft hoe werpeþ al in al. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300

Noun

gal

1. tree

Etymology 1

From Old Norse galinn, from gala (“sing bewitching songs, in actuality bewitched by magical singing”)

Etymology 2

Related to the verb gale

Etymology 3

References

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Verb

gal

1. imperative of gala

Etymology

From Latin gallus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡal]

Noun

gal m (plural gals)

1. A cock, rooster

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (“frothing, tempestuous, wanton”). Cognate with Old Saxon gēl, Dutch geil (“salacious, lustful”), Old High German geil (German geil (“lustful”)), Old Norse geiligr (“beautiful”). The Indo-European root may also be the source of Lithuanian gailùs (“sharp, biting”), Russian зело (zelo, “very”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːl/

Adjective

gāl (comparative gālra, superlative gālost)

1. wanton, lustful; wicked

   And se Iouis wearð swa swyðe gal þæt he on his agenre swyster gewifode. And Jove became so depraved that he married his own sister. (Wulfstan, De Falsis Deis)

Noun

gal m (oblique plural gaus or gax or gals, nominative singular gaus or gax or gals, nominative plural gal)

1. A rock

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡal/

• Audio

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Etymology 1

From Latin [Term?]

Etymology 2

Named in honour of Galileo Galilei

Etymology 3

see gala

Noun

gal

1. A mouth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡal/

Noun

gal m (plural ghël)

1. rooster (male domestic fowl)
   • September 2012, Loris Pasini, E’ gal in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

     E’ gal

     The rooster

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Gallus.

Etymology 2

From French gal.

See also

• gâl

Noun

gal m (genitive singular gail)

1. verbal noun of gail

Alternative forms

• gȃo

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *galъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːl/
• Hyphenation: gal

Adjective

gȃl (Cyrillic spelling га̑л)

1. (dated) black, dark (physical attributes)
2. (dated) dark fur

Verb

gal

1. enter

   musqusha gal. - enter the toilet

Verb

gal

1. present tense of gala.
2. imperative of gala.