appel

Borrowed from French appel.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/, /ɑˈpɛl/

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 appeling, simple past and past participle appeled)

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal

• Apple, apple, pepla

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pəl/

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

1. apple

• pynappel

• → Xhosa: i-apile

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəl/
• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɑpəl

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

1. apple

• Afrikaans: appel
  • → Xhosa: i-apile
• → Unami: apëlìsh (from "appels")

From French appel.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɛl/

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• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

1. appeal

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

• lappe

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛl/

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

appel m (plural appels)

1. call
2. appeal

• appelant
• appeler

• “appel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• palpe, palpé

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

appel m

1. apple

• āpel

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: appel
  • Afrikaans: appel
    • → Xhosa: i-apile
  • → Unami: apëlìsh (from "appels")
• Limburgish: appel

• “appel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “appel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈapəl/, /ˈɛpəl/

appel (plural apples or applen)

1. Any sort or variety of fruit or nut.
2. The apple (fruit of Malus domestica).
3. A round object of similar size to an apple.
4. A protrusion or projection, especially a round one.
5. (biblical) The fruit born by the Tree of Knowledge.
6. (rare) Abbotship; abbacy.

• appeltre

• English: apple
  • → Abenaki: aples (from "apples")
  • → Assamese: আপেল (apel)
  • → East Futuna: apo
  • → Fiji Hindi: aapul
  • → Marshallese: abōļ
  • → Yurok: ˀɹplɹs, 'erplers (from "apples")
• Scots: aipple, aiple

• “appel, -il, -ul n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

From Proto-Germanic *aplaz. Compare Old English æppel.

appel m

1. apple

• North Frisian:

  Föhr, Hallig: aapel

  Helgoland: Oapel

  Mooring: ååpel

• Saterland Frisian: Appel
• West Frisian: apel

• appul, apl

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈap.pəl/

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

appel c (plural appels, diminutive appeltsje)

1. apple

• apel

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