vole

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• Received-Pronunciation: /vəʊl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [vɔʊɫ]
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• General-American: /voʊl/
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• General-American: [voɫ]
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• Canada: [voːɫ]
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /vəʉl/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /vɐʉl/
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• Scotland: /vol/
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• Scotland: [voɫ]
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Borrowed from French vole.

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Breton: muenn — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Bulgarian: полевка (polevka) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Bulgarian: полска мишка (polska miška) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Catalan: talpó — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Chinese Mandarin: 田鼠 (tiánshǔ) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Czech: hryzec — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Czech: hraboš — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Czech: norník — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Danish: studsmus — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Dutch: veldmuis — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Dutch: woelmuis — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Esperanto: arvikolo — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Finnish: myyrä — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• French: campagnol — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• West-Frisian: wrotmûs — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Friulian: surîs di campagne — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Galician: leirón — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Galician: ouracán — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Galician: ougana — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Galician: luria — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Galician: furapozas — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• German: Wühlmaus — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Ancient Greek: σμίνθος (smínthos) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Hungarian: pocok — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Indonesian: tikus padang — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Irish: vól — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Italian: arvicola — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Italian: campagnolo — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Japanese: ハタネズミ (hatanezumi) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Japanese: 畑鼠 (hatanezumi) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Kazakh: тоқалтіс (toqaltıs) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Malay: tikus padang — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Navajo: łeeyiʼ bitiiní — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Occitan: rat de camp — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Occitan: campanhòl — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Persian: ول (vol) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Polish: nornica — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Polish: nornik — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Polish: polnik — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Portuguese: rato-do-campo — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Romanian: șoarece-de-câmp — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Romansh: mieur-sfuigna — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Russian: полёвка (poljóvka) — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Serbo-Croatian: волухар — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Serbo-Croatian: волухарица — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Serbo-Croatian: voluhar — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Serbo-Croatian: voluharica — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Slovene: voluhar — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Slovene: voluharji — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Spanish: campañol — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Spanish: topillo — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Spanish: rata de agua — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Swedish: sork — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Vietnamese: chuột đồng — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• Welsh: llygoden — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae
• West Flemish: tope — small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae