dole

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• US: dōl
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• US: [doʊ̯ɫ]
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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• /ˈdole/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /dəʊl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [dɒʊl]
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• /dɒl/ doll–dole merger
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• General-American: /doʊl/
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• homophone: dhole
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• homophone: doll (doll–dole merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: D OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, from the archaic noun dole (“portion, share”). * As a French surname, from Old French dolé, past participle of doler (“to regret”), from Latin doleo (“to hurt”). * Also as a French surname, Americanized from Daul.

From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Polish dola (“fate, cut”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal. First attested in the late 12th c. The verb is first attested in the mid-15th c.

From Middle English dole (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: милости́ня (milostínja) — money or goods given as charity
• Bulgarian: подая́ние (podajánie) — money or goods given as charity
• Czech: almužna — money or goods given as charity
• Czech: milodar — money or goods given as charity
• Finnish: avustus — money or goods given as charity
• Georgian: მოწყალება (moc̣q̇aleba) — money or goods given as charity
• Hungarian: segély — money or goods given as charity
• Latin: stips — money or goods given as charity
• Russian: ми́лостыня (mílostynja) — money or goods given as charity
• Russian: подая́ние (podajánije) — money or goods given as charity
• Russian: пода́чка (podáčka) — money or goods given as charity
• Serbo-Croatian: milostinja — money or goods given as charity
• Bulgarian: по́мощ при безрабо́тица (pómošt pri bezrabótica) — unemployment benefit
• Czech: podpora — unemployment benefit
• Czech: podpora v nezaměstnanosti — unemployment benefit
• Dutch: werkloosheidsuitkering — unemployment benefit
• Dutch: steun — unemployment benefit
• Dutch: dop — unemployment benefit
• Finnish: tuki — unemployment benefit
• Finnish: työttömyyspäiväraha — unemployment benefit
• Finnish: työttömyysavustus — unemployment benefit
• French: assedics — unemployment benefit
• German: Stütze — unemployment benefit
• Icelandic: atvinnuleysisbætur — unemployment benefit
• Russian: посо́бие (posóbije) — unemployment benefit
• Russian: посо́бие по безрабо́тице (posóbije po bezrabótice) — unemployment benefit
• Serbo-Croatian: naknada za nezaposlenost — unemployment benefit
• Slovene: socialna pomoč — unemployment benefit
• Spanish: paro — unemployment benefit
• Welsh: dôl — unemployment benefit
• Bulgarian: раздавам (razdavam) — to distribute in small amounts
• Dutch: uitdelen — to distribute in small amounts
• Dutch: toebedelen — to distribute in small amounts
• Dutch: ronddelen — to distribute in small amounts
• Finnish: jakaa — to distribute in small amounts
• Finnish: jaella — to distribute in small amounts
• Māori: tōronga — to distribute in small amounts
• Russian: раздава́ть (razdavátʹ) — to distribute in small amounts