appel

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/, /ɑˈpɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

appel (plural appels)

1. (fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

• (fencing): feint

appel (third-person singular simple present appels, present participle appelling, simple past and past participle appelled)

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

appel (plural appels)

1. Obsolete spelling of apple.

• Apple, apple, pepla

From Dutch appel, from Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch *appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pəl/

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appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

1. apple

• → Xhosa: i-apile

From Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɑpəl
• Homophone: Appel

appel m (plural appels or appelen, diminutive appeltje n)

1. apple (Malus domestica, fruit or tree)

   Synonym: ijsappel (Suriname)

2. (Suriname) wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)

   Synonym: djamboe semarang

• Afrikaans: appel
  • → Xhosa: i-apile
• Berbice Creole Dutch: apl
• Jersey Dutch: āpel
• Negerhollands: apl
• → Loup A: abel
• → Mahican: ápenes (from the plural form)
• → Malay: apel (Indonesian)

• Indonesian: apêl

• →? Mohegan-Pequot: appece
• → Munsee: áapulash (from the plural form)
• → Papiamentu: apel, appel
• →? Sranan Tongo: apra
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: aprá
  • → Caribbean Javanese: aprah
  • → Lokono: apra
• → Unami: apëlìsh (from the plural form)

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɛl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

1. appeal (act of imploring or exhorting; a discourse wherein this is done)

   Christen Democratisch Appèl — Christian Democratic Appeal (the name of a Dutch political party: old spelling with the accent on the -e-)

2. (law) appeal (application for legal review and overturning)

   Synonym: beroep

3. (military) roll call (muster of troops at which names are read out, to see if all are present)

• appèl (superseded)

• Afrikaans: appèl
• → Caribbean Javanese: apèl
• → Indonesian: apèl
• → Papiamentu: apèl

• lappe

See the verb appeler (“to call (out)”)

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: appelle, appellent, appelles, appels

appel m (plural appels)

1. call
2. appeal

• appelant
• appeler

• → English: appel
• → German: Appell
  • → English: Appell
• → Polish: apel
• → Romanian: apel

• “appel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• palpe, palpé

appel m

1. Veldeke spelling of Ape̩l

From Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

appel m

1. apple

• āpel

• Dutch: appel (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: appel

• “appel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “appel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• apple, appyl, appyll, appil, appill, appell, eppel, appul, appull, appulle, eappel
• æppel, æpple, eappel (Early Middle English)

Old English æppel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from *h₂bl-, the oblique stem of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈapəl/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛpəl/

appel (plural apples or (rare) applen)

1. fruit, nut
2. apple (fruit of Malus domestica).
   • c. 1378, William Langland, Piers Plowman:

     I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. ball; spheroid

• appeltre

• English: apple (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: aipple

• “appel, -il, -ul, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 July 2018.

appel m

1. alternative form of æppel

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old English æppel.

appel m

1. apple

• North Frisian:

  Föhr, Hallig: aapel

  Helgoland: Oapel

  Mooring: ååpel

• Saterland Frisian: Appel, Apel
• West Frisian: apel

• appul, apl

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old Frisian appel, Old English æppel, Old High German apful.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑp.pɑl/

appel m

1. apple

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Low German: appel
  • German Low German: Appel
    • → German: Appel (colloquial, regional)
  • Plautdietsch: Aupel

From Old Frisian appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈapəl/

appel c (plural appels, diminutive appeltsje)

1. apple

• apel

• sinesappel

• “appel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011