pale

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: pāl
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /peɪl/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -eɪl
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• homophone: pail
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• CMU ARPABET: P EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Latin palleō Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin pallidus Old French palebor. Middle English pale English pale From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“to be pale; to grow pale; to fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.

From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin pālus (“stake, prop”). English inherited the word pole (or, rather Old English pāl) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word. Doublet of peel and pole.

243 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: spart — light in color
• Southern Altai: куба (kuba) — light in color
• Arabic: بَاهِت (bāhit) — light in color
• Arabic: شَاحِب (šāḥib) — light in color
• Arabic: باهت (bāhit) — light in color
• Basque: zurbil — light in color
• Belarusian: бле́дны (bljédny) — light in color
• Bulgarian: блед (bled) — light in color
• Catalan: pàl·lid — light in color
• Cebuano: luspad — light in color
• Chinese Mandarin: 蒼白 /苍白 (cāngbái) — light in color
• Chinese Mandarin: 白皙 (báixī) — light in color
• Chinese Mandarin: 白淨 /白净 (báijing) — light in color
• Chinese Mandarin: 慘白 /惨白 (cǎnbái) — light in color
• Czech: bledý — light in color
• Czech: světlý — light in color
• Danish: bleg — light in color
• Danish: blegt — light in color
• Dutch: bleek — light in color
• Esperanto: pala — light in color
• Finnish: kalpea — light in color
• Finnish: kalvakka — light in color
• Finnish: kelmeä — light in color
• Finnish: vaalea — light in color
• French: pâle — light in color
• French: hâve — light in color
• Galician: lourido — light in color
• Galician: macío — light in color
• Galician: lúrido — light in color
• Galician: abuado — light in color
• Galician: esluado — light in color
• Galician: esleigado — light in color
• Georgian: ღია (ɣia) — light in color
• Georgian: მკრთალი (mḳrtali) — light in color
• Georgian: ბაცი (baci) — light in color
• German: hell — light in color
• German: blass — light in color
• Greek: χλωμός (chlomós) — light in color
• Greek: ωχρός (ochrós) — light in color
• Ancient Greek: ὠχρός (ōkhrós) — light in color
• Hebrew: חיוור (khiver) — light in color
• Higaonon: luspad — light in color
• White Hmong: nhạt — light in color
• White Hmong: lợt — light in color
• Hungarian: halvány — light in color
• Hungarian: világos — light in color
• Icelandic: fölur — light in color
• Indonesian: pucat — light in color
• Ingrian: kelmiä — light in color
• Ingrian: blednoi — light in color
• Ingrian: veretöin — light in color
• Italian: pallido — light in color
• Italian: smorto — light in color
• Japanese: 青ざめた (aozameta) — light in color
• Korean: 창백한 (changbaekhan) — light in color
• Latgalian: buolgs — light in color
• Latin: pallidus — light in color
• Latvian: bāls — light in color
• Macedonian: блед (bled) — light in color
• Malagasy: fotsy — light in color
• Malay: pucat — light in color
• Māori: tihaere — light in color
• Māori: kōmā — light in color
• Māori: kōtea — light in color
• Māori: teatea — light in color
• Māori: kiritea — light in color
• Māori: horotea — light in color
• Māori: tūrehu — light in color
• Māori: hina — light in color
• Māori: taitea — light in color
• Māori: mōtea — light in color
• Norman: bliême — light in color
• Norman: pale — light in color
• Norwegian: blek — light in color
• Norwegian: bleik — light in color
• Old English: blāc — light in color
• Persian: کم رنگ — light in color
• Plautdietsch: blauss — light in color
• Polish: blady — light in color
• Polish: biały — light in color
• Portuguese: pálido — light in color
• Portuguese: claro — light in color
• Romanian: pal — light in color
• Romanian: palid — light in color
• Russian: бле́дный (blédnyj) — light in color
• Serbo-Croatian: bled — light in color
• Slovak: bledý — light in color
• Lower Sorbian: blědy — light in color
• Spanish: pálido — light in color
• Swedish: blek — light in color
• Tagalog: maputla — light in color
• Thai: ซีด (sîit) — light in color
• Thai: จาง (jaang) — light in color
• Ukrainian: бліди́й (blidýj) — light in color
• Vietnamese: tái — light in color
• Volapük: paelik — light in color
• Walloon: clair — light in color
• Welsh: gwelw — light in color
• Yakut: чэҥкир (čeŋkir) — light in color
• Yiddish: בלייך (bleykh) — light in color
• Armenian: գունատ (gunat) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Central Bikol: malungsi — having a pallor, of human skin
• Bulgarian: блед (bled) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Czech: bledý — having a pallor, of human skin
• French: pâle — having a pallor, of human skin
• Georgian: მკრთალი (mḳrtali) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Georgian: ფერმკრთალი (permḳrtali) — having a pallor, of human skin
• German: blass — having a pallor, of human skin
• German: bleich — having a pallor, of human skin
• German: fahl — having a pallor, of human skin
• Hindi: फीका (phīkā) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Hungarian: sápadt — having a pallor, of human skin
• Ingrian: blednoi — having a pallor, of human skin
• Italian: smorto — having a pallor, of human skin
• Latin: pallidus — having a pallor, of human skin
• Māori: kōmā — having a pallor, of human skin
• Old English: blāc — having a pallor, of human skin
• Plautdietsch: blauss — having a pallor, of human skin
• Polish: blady — having a pallor, of human skin
• Polish: biały — having a pallor, of human skin
• Portuguese: pálida — having a pallor, of human skin
• Portuguese: branca — having a pallor, of human skin
• Spanish: pálido — having a pallor, of human skin
• Spanish: payulo — having a pallor, of human skin
• Spanish: puspo — having a pallor, of human skin
• Spanish: nixte (nishte) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Ottoman Turkish: صاری (sarı) — having a pallor, of human skin
• Walloon: påle — having a pallor, of human skin
• Walloon: bladje — having a pallor, of human skin
• Walloon: sblari — having a pallor, of human skin
• Arabic: مسخسخ (misaḵsaḵ) — feeble, faint
• Bulgarian: блед (bled) — feeble, faint
• Polish: blady — feeble, faint
• Spanish: malo — feeble, faint
• Spanish: mal — feeble, faint
• Spanish: triste — feeble, faint
• Arabic: لَوْح (lawḥ) — wooden stake
• Belarusian: кол (kol) — wooden stake
• Belarusian: тыніна (tynina) — wooden stake
• Bulgarian: кол (kol) — wooden stake
• Dutch: staak — wooden stake
• Dutch: paal — wooden stake
• Esperanto: paliso — wooden stake
• Finnish: paalu — wooden stake
• Finnish: seiväs — wooden stake
• German: Latte — wooden stake
• Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos) — wooden stake
• Greek: παλούκι (paloúki) — wooden stake
• Ido: paliso — wooden stake
• Italian: palo — wooden stake
• Norwegian: påle — wooden stake
• Norwegian: pæl — wooden stake
• Polish: pal — wooden stake
• Polish: sztacheta — wooden stake
• Portuguese: pau — wooden stake
• Portuguese: poste — wooden stake
• Russian: кол (kol) — wooden stake
• Russian: штаке́т (štakét) — wooden stake
• Ottoman Turkish: قازیق (kazık) — wooden stake
• Ottoman Turkish: وتد (veted) — wooden stake
• Ukrainian: штахе́т (štaxét) — wooden stake
• Belarusian: частакол (častakól) — fence made of wooden stakes
• Belarusian: тын (tyn) — fence made of wooden stakes
• Bulgarian: ограда от колове (ograda ot kolove) — fence made of wooden stakes
• Dutch: palissade — fence made of wooden stakes
• Finnish: paaluaita — fence made of wooden stakes
• Portuguese: paliçada — fence made of wooden stakes
• Russian: частокол (častokol) — fence made of wooden stakes
• Bulgarian: предели (predeli) — limits, bounds
• Dutch: grens — limits, bounds
• Dutch: limiet — limits, bounds
• Finnish: rajoitus — limits, bounds
• Finnish: rajoite — limits, bounds
• Dutch: grens — bounds of morality
• Finnish: moraalin rajat — bounds of morality
• Catalan: pal — heraldry: vertical band
• Czech: kůl — heraldry: vertical band
• Dutch: paal — heraldry: vertical band
• Finnish: halkio — heraldry: vertical band
• Finnish: paalu — heraldry: vertical band
• French: pal — heraldry: vertical band
• German: Pfahl — heraldry: vertical band
• Hungarian: cölöp — heraldry: vertical band
• Irish: cuaille — heraldry: vertical band
• Italian: palo — heraldry: vertical band
• Japanese: ペイル — heraldry: vertical band
• Norwegian: stolpe — heraldry: vertical band
• Polish: słup — heraldry: vertical band
• Portuguese: pala — heraldry: vertical band
• Spanish: palo — heraldry: vertical band
• Swedish: stolpe — heraldry: vertical band
• Finnish: tukikohta — defensive area held in another country
• Finnish: etuvarustus — defensive area held in another country
• Bulgarian: бледнея (bledneja) — to become pale
• Bulgarian: избледнявам (izblednjavam) — to become pale
• Bulgarian: избледнея (izbledneja) — to become pale
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎪᎸᎦ (asgolvga) — to become pale
• Czech: blednout — to become pale
• Czech: zblednout — to become pale
• Danish: blegne — to become pale
• Esperanto: paliĝi — to become pale
• Finnish: kalveta — to become pale
• French: pâlir — to become pale
• Georgian: ფითრდება (pitrdeba) — to become pale
• German: blass werden — to become pale
• German: erblassen — to become pale
• Middle High German: erbleichen — to become pale
• Greek: χλωμιάζω (chlomiázo) — to become pale
• Greek: ωχριώ (ochrió) — to become pale
• Hungarian: sápad — to become pale
• Hungarian: elsápad — to become pale
• Italian: impallidire — to become pale
• Italian: sbiancare — to become pale
• Korean: 파리하다 (parihada) — to become pale
• Korean: 해쓱하다 (haesseukhada) — to become pale
• Latin: pallescō — to become pale
• Latin: albesco — to become pale
• Latvian: bālēt — to become pale
• Macedonian: бледнее (blednee) — to become pale
• Macedonian: побледува (pobleduva) — to become pale
• Macedonian: избледнува (izblednuva) — to become pale
• Norwegian: blekne — to become pale
• Polish: blednąć — to become pale
• Polish: zblednąć — to become pale
• Polish: blaknąć — to become pale
• Polish: wyblaknąć — to become pale
• Polish: zblaknąć — to become pale
• Portuguese: empalidecer — to become pale
• Portuguese: clarear — to become pale
• Russian: бледне́ть (blednétʹ) — to become pale
• Russian: побледне́ть (poblednétʹ) — to become pale
• Spanish: palidecer — to become pale
• Spanish: empalidecer — to become pale
• Swedish: blekna — to become pale
• Thai: ซีด (sîit) — to become pale
• Ottoman Turkish: صاپصاری كسیلمك (sapsarı kesilmek) — to become pale
• Ukrainian: блі́днути (blídnuty) — to become pale
• Welsh: gwelwi — to become pale
• Czech: blednout — to become insignicant
• Polish: blednąć — to become insignicant
• Polish: zblednąć — to become insignicant
• Spanish: palidecer — to become insignicant
• Spanish: empalidecer — to become insignicant