shoal

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• UK: /ʃəʊl/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -əʊl
  Play

From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh1- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.

1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”). Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: банка (banka) — sandbank
• Chinese Mandarin: 淺灘 /浅滩 (qiǎntān) — sandbank
• Czech: mělčina — sandbank
• Czech: písčina — sandbank
• Danish: revle — sandbank
• Dutch: zandbank — sandbank
• Esperanto: sablejo — sandbank
• Esperanto: sablobenko — sandbank
• Finnish: särkkä — sandbank
• French: banc de sable — sandbank
• Galician: barra — sandbank
• Galician: banco de area — sandbank
• Galician: restinga — sandbank
• Galician: taro — sandbank
• Galician: sirte — sandbank
• Galician: brica — sandbank
• German: Sandbank — sandbank
• Greek: ρηχά (richá) — sandbank
• Greek: ύφαλος (ýfalos) — sandbank
• Hebrew: שרטון (sirton) — sandbank
• Hungarian: zátony — sandbank
• Hungarian: turzás — sandbank
• Igbo: ubòm — sandbank
• Irish: scairbh — sandbank
• Irish: oitir — sandbank
• Italian: secca — sandbank
• Italian: banco di sabbia — sandbank
• Japanese: 浅瀬 (asase) — sandbank
• Kazakh: қайраң (qairañ) — sandbank
• Korean: 사주 (saju) — sandbank
• Korean: 모래톱 (moraetop) — sandbank
• Latin: pulvīnus — sandbank
• Macedonian: плитак (plitak) — sandbank
• Māori: tāhuna — sandbank
• Māori: tārake — sandbank
• Māori: matatāhuna — sandbank
• Norwegian: sandbanke — sandbank
• Persian: سنار (sanâr) — sandbank
• Portuguese: banco de areia — sandbank
• Russian: мелково́дье (melkovódʹje) — sandbank
• Russian: о́тмель (ótmelʹ) — sandbank
• Russian: ба́нка (bánka) — sandbank
• Russian: мель (melʹ) — sandbank
• Scottish Gaelic: oitir — sandbank
• Serbo-Croatian: пличина — sandbank
• Serbo-Croatian: pličina — sandbank
• Spanish: bajío — sandbank
• Spanish: bajo — sandbank
• Spanish: banco de arena — sandbank
• Spanish: sirte — sandbank
• Spanish: restinga — sandbank
• Spanish: arricete — sandbank
• Spanish: restringa — sandbank
• Spanish: médano — sandbank
• Swedish: sandbank — sandbank
• Tagalog: batuharang — sandbank
• Bulgarian: плитчина (plitčina) — a shallow
• Czech: mělčina — a shallow
• Finnish: matalikko — a shallow
• German: Gelungg — a shallow
• Ancient Greek: τέναγος (ténagos) — a shallow
• Māori: pāti — a shallow
• Spanish: bajío — a shallow