polo

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊloʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊləʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

From Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

polo (usually uncountable, plural polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.
   • 2007, February 22, “Mike Albo”, in Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me‎:

     Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.

The word polo has the following commercial uses:

• Polo Mints - A white mint flavoured sweet with a hole in the centre.
• VW Polo - A type of car manufactured by Volkswagen

• polo shirt - A T-shaped shirt with a collar and two buttons.
• polo neck - A garment, usually a sweater, with a round, high collar that folds over and covers the neck.
• water polo - A version of the game above, played in a swimming pool instead of on horseback.

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Unknown.

polo (plural polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

• polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• polo at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Loop, OOPL, loop, pool

From a contraction of the preposition por (“for, by”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

polo n (masculine pol, feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural poles)

1. for the, by the

• Hyphenation: po‧lo

From English polo shirt.

polo

1. a polo shirt

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

polo

1. a ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
2. a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates

Unknown.

polo

1. a dress shirt

polo n

1. polo (a ball game played on horseback)

   Synonym: pólo

polo

1. half

• polo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• polo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

polo

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

   Synonyms: poloskjorte, polotrøje

• “polo” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• Rhymes: -olo

polo (accusative singular polon, plural poloj, accusative plural polojn)

1. a Pole (person from Poland)

• eŭropano (“a European”)

• pola (“Polish”)
• pole (“in Polish; like a Pole”)
• Polio, Pollando (“Poland”)

Related to and likely derived from polkea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolo/, [ˈpo̞lo̞]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

polo

1. poor (one to be pitied)

   poikapolo

   poor boy

• poloinen

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004-2005). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Juva: WSOY. →ISBN.

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polo m

1. polo (ball game played on horseback)
2. polo shirt

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

Contraction of por lo.

polo (feminine pola, masculine plural polos, feminine plural polas)

1. through the; by the; for the

   O ladrón entrou pola ventá.

   The thief entered through the window.

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus.

polo m (plural polos)

1. chick (young bird, especially a chicken)

• pito

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

Borrowed from English polo.

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

Borrowed from English pole, French pôle, German Pol, Italian polo, Russian по́люс (póljus), Spanish polo, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lo/

polo (plural poli)

1. pole (point where an axis meets the surface of a rotating body)

• polala
• polara

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lo/[1]

polo m (plural poli)

1. (countable) pole (geographic, electrical or magnetic)

• polare

• pollo

Borrowed from English polo.

polo m (plural poli)

1. (uncountable) polo (sport)

polō

1. dative singular of polus
2. ablative singular of polus

• polo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

polo m (invariable)

1. polo

• ūdenspolo

polo n (diminutive polack)

1. Superseded spelling of pólo.

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

• vannpolo

• “polo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English polo, from Balti پولو‎ (polo, “ball”).

polo m (definite singular poloen, uncountable)

1. (sports, equestrianism) polo

• vasspolo

• “polo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin polus (“pole”), from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).

• pólo (superseded)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

polo m (plural polos)

1. pole (geographic, magnetic)
2. (figuratively) extreme opposite

Borrowed from English polo, from Balti པོ་ལོ (pulu, “ball”).

• pólo (superseded)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

polo m (plural polos)

1. polo (game, shirt)

From Old Portuguese, from Latin pullus, from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Doublet of polho, which came from Spanish.

• pôlo (superseded)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

polo m (plural polos)

1. eyas

• poleiro

From Old Portuguese polo, from por + lo.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.lu/
• Hyphenation: po‧lo

polo m (plural polos, feminine pola, feminine plural polas)

1. (obsolete) Contraction of por (“by; through; for”) + o (“the”)

polo

1. liquid

• Robyn Davies and Lisbeth Fritzell, Duke of York Grammar Essentials (Ramoaaina) (October 1992)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolo/

Borrowed from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).

polo m (plural polos)

1. (geography, electricity) pole

• polar

Borrowed from English polo.

polo m (uncountable)

1. polo (ball game)
2. polo shirt

• waterpolo

Originally a trademark.

polo m (plural polos)

1. (chiefly Spain) popsicle, ice lolly

See the etymology of the main entry.

polo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of polir.

• “polo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Borrowed from Russian по́ло (pólo).

polo

1. polo (sport)

• vezipolo

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “поло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika