pall

See also: Páll and pal'l'

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɔːl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɔl/, /pɑl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

From Old English pæll, from Latin pallium (“cloak, covering”).

Noun

pall (plural palls)

  1. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
  2. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
  3. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
  4. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
    • Fuller
      About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
  5. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  6. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
    • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate (2006), page 150:
      Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime, […]
  7. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
  8. (obsolete) nausea
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  9. A feeling of gloom.
    A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
    The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
Synonyms
  • (heraldry): pairle
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

  1. To cloak.
    Lady Macbeth: Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).

Etymology 2

Aphetism from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.

Verb

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

  1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
    • Atterbury
      Reason and reflection […] pall all his enjoyments.
  2. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
    The liquor palls.
    • Addison
      Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
      We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *palei-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- 'to speak with a loud voice'. Cognate to Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌽 (spillōn, “to proclaim”)[1].

Verb

pall (first-person singular past tense palla, participle pallë/pallur)

  1. To cry, hee-haw.

References

  1. ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.365

Estonian

Etymology

From either German Ball or Middle Low German bal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pˈɑlʲː/

Noun

pall (genitive palli, partitive palli)

  1. (sports) ball

Declension

Derived terms

Livonian

Etymology 1

Akin to Estonian paluma.

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) pallõ

Verb

pall

  1. ask

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *paladak.

Alternative forms

  • (Courland) pa'llõ

Verb

pall

  1. burn

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse pallr

Noun

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural paller, definite plural pallene)

  1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
  2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse pallr

Noun

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural pallar, definite plural pallane)

  1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
  2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

References

Swedish

pall[4] = pawl (2)

Pronunciation

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Noun

pall c

  1. a stool; a chair without armrests or a back
  2. (sports) a podium for prize ceremonies
  3. a pallet; a movable platform, constructed to be moved by forklifts
  4. a pawl (a pin in a ratchet gear)
    att stå pall
    to cope, to stand against pressure
  5. (dated, slang) an apple

Declension

Declension of pall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pall pallen pallar pallarna
Genitive palls pallens pallars pallarnas
Declension of pall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pall pallet pall pallen
Genitive palls pallets palls pallens

Derived terms

  • fotpall
  • lastpall
  • mjölkpall
  • palla
  • pallbrytning
  • palldragare
  • pallning
  • pallplacering
  • pallplats
  • pallvagn
  • prispall
  • stå pall

References

Welsh

Noun

pall m (plural pallon)

  1. tent

Synonyms

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