fol

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔl]

fol

1. second-person singular imperative of flas

• 科 (fo¹)

Clipping of English follow.

fol

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) follower count

• follow

fol

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) to follow

• follow

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

fol

1. alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

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

Inherited from Latin follis (“bellows, purse”), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/

fol m (plural foles)

1. bag (of bagpipes)
2. bellows
3. bag, sack, goatskin

   home pequeno, fol de veleno

   a little man, a bag of poison

   (proverb)

4. (archaic) a madman

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fol”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fol”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Derived from French folle.

• IPA^(key): /fol/

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) madwoman (a mad, crazy female)

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagli

fol

1. alternative form of fole (“fool”)

fol

1. alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

Inherited from Old French fol.

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)

1. madman (a person who is insane)

• French: fol, fou
  • Louisiana Creole: fou

• ful

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz.

fol

1. full

• Middle Dutch: vol
  • Dutch: vol
    • Afrikaans: vol
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: folo
    • Jersey Dutch: vol
    • Negerhollands: vol
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fol
    • → Indonesian: pol
  • Limburgish: vól
  • West Flemish: vul

• “fol”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Inherited from Latin follis, follem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

• folie
• folement

• Middle French: fol
  • French: fol, fou
    • Louisiana Creole: fou
• Norman: fo m, folle f
• → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
  • English: fool
  • Geordie English: fuil, feul
  • Scots: fule, fuil
  • → Welsh: ffôl
• → Old Danish: fol
  • Danish: fjols

Inherited from Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

fol

1. mad; insane; crazy

• folamen
• folor

• Occitan: hòu, fòl, fòu

Borrowed from German voll. Compare Low German vull, Dutch vol, English full, Danish fuld, Swedish full.

fol

1. full

   Mon jă fol

   The moon is full

• The template Template:R:pox:SejDp does not use the parameter(s):

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “fol”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1095
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “fol”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 61
• Olesch, Reinhold (1973) “vol”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 3: T – Z, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1295

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk full, either through its northern dialectal form (see foill), either through Russian accent (in both cases the vowel changes into [u]-sound with different length).

Possible examples:

• IPA^(key): /fuʎ/ (Northern Norwegian accent)
• IPA^(key): /fulʲ/ (Russian accent)

fol

1. full

   Moja fol Maga

   My stomach is full

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

fol

1. abbreviation of folio

• fala, hal, hol, höl, holu (dialectal)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فول (fol, “a nest-egg”),^[1] from Greek φώλι (fóli, “the act or place of incubation, nest”), from Ancient Greek φωλεός (phōleós, “den, animal burrow”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɫ/
• Hyphenation: fol

fol (definite accusative folu, plural follar)

1. (colloquial) An egg or egg-shaped object placed at a spot for a hen to lay her eggs there; a nest egg.

• “fol”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fol”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1606
• Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎^[2] (in German), Vienna: Academy Press, § 581, pages 135–136

Volapük cardinal numbers

<  3	4	5  >
Cardinal : fol     Ordinal : folid

Borrowed from English four.

fol

1. four
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 23:

     Folna fol binos degmäl.

     Four times four is sixteen.

• folam
• folüm

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fol

1. full (not empty)
2. full of
3. whole, full, complete

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• folwoeksen

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