pall

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɔːl/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /poːl/
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• /pɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• cot-caught-merger: /pɑl/
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• General-American: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada: /pɒl/
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• Scotland: /pɔl/
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• rhymes with -ɔːl
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• homophone: Paul
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• CMU ARPABET: P AA1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: P AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Páll, a variant of Pál. * Borrowed from Telugu పాల్ (pāl), a rendition of the personal name Paul.

From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium), probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

From the verb pall (“to make vapid”).

From the noun pall (“cloth”).

Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”), possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall. Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle English pallen (“to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to lose spirit”), formed by aphesis from apallen (“to become or make faint or tired; to become indifferent; to fade or cause to fade away; to dim, weaken; to become stale; to be frightened; to frighten; to become pale”), from Old French apalir (“to become or cause to become pale”), possibly from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid; pale with fright, frightened; mouldy, musty”), from palleō (“to be pale, turn pale; to be anxious or fearful; to fade or change colour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pelH- (“grey; pale”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives).

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: плащеница (plaštenica) — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Czech: pokrývka rakve — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Dutch: lijkkleed — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Finnish: arkkuvaate — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• French: drap mortuaire — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• French: poêle — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Irish: brat bróin — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Irish: páilín — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Italian: sudario — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Italian: drappo funerario — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Italian: drappo — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Italian: cappa — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Occitan: linçòl — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Occitan: lençòl — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Polish: kir — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Russian: покро́в на гро́бе (pokróv na gróbe) — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Russian: пелена́ (pelená) — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Ukrainian: покривало (pokryvalo) — heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb
• Catalan: pàl·lia — linen-covered cardboard used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist
• French: pale — linen-covered cardboard used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist
• German: Palla — linen-covered cardboard used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist
• Polish: palka — linen-covered cardboard used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist
• Czech: příkrov — feeling of fear or gloom
• Czech: závoj — feeling of fear or gloom
• Catalan: perla — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Dutch: gaffel — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Finnish: haaruristi — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• French: pairle — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• German: Göpel — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Italian: pergola — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Italian: pallio — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Occitan: perla — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Polish: rosocha — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Portuguese: perla — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Spanish: perla — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Swedish: gaffelkors — charge representing an archbishop's pallium
• Bulgarian: втръсвам се (vtrǎsvam se) — to become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid
• Czech: vyčichnout — to become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid
• Czech: zvětrat — to become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid
• Czech: omrzet — to become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid
• Czech: omrzet se — to become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid