pale

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from. . Displaced native.

Adjective

 * 1) Light in color.
 * 2)  Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
 * 3) Feeble, faint.
 * He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
 * The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
 * 1) Feeble, faint.
 * He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
 * The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.
 * He is but a pale shadow of his former self.
 * The son's clumsy paintings are a pale imitation of his father's.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:pallid

Translations

 * Albanian: zbehët
 * Arabic: بَاهِت, شَاحِب
 * Egyptian Arabic: باهت
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: бле́дны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: luspad
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, blegt
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: lourido, macío, lúrido, abuado, esluado, esleigado
 * Georgian: ღია, მკრთალი, ბაცი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὠχρός
 * Guaraní: kangy
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: luspad
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: blednoi
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 青ざめた
 * Korean: 창백한
 * Latgalian: buolgs
 * Latin: pallidus
 * Latvian: bāls
 * Macedonian: блед
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: pucat
 * Maori: tihaere, kōmā, kōtea, teatea, kiritea, horotea, tūrehu , hina, taitea, mōtea
 * Norman: bliême, pale
 * Norwegian:, bleik
 * Old English: blāc
 * Persian: کم رنگ
 * Plautdietsch: blauss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: bledý
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: blědy
 * Southern Altai: куба
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: maputla
 * Thai: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: nhạt, lợt
 * Yakut: чэҥкир
 * Yiddish: בלייך


 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მკრთალი, ფერმკრთალი
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: blednoi
 * Italian:
 * Latin: pallidus
 * Maori: kōmā
 * Old English: blāc
 * Plautdietsch: blauss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Walloon:, ,


 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: مسخسخ
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To turn pale; to lose colour.
 * 2)  To become insignificant.
 * 3) * 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
 * The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
 * 1)  To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
 * 1) * 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
 * The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
 * 1)  To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, , избледнея
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎪᎸᎦ
 * Danish: blegne
 * Esperanto: paliĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფითრდება
 * German: blass werden, erblassen
 * Middle High German: erbleichen
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:, 해쓱하다
 * Latin: pallescō, albesco
 * Latvian: bālēt
 * Macedonian: бледнее, побледува, избледнува
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: صاپ‌صاری كسیلمك
 * Polish:, , , wyblaknąć, zblaknąć
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * Polish: ,

Noun

 * 1)  Paleness; pallor.

Etymology 2
From, , borrowed from , from. English inherited the word (or, rather 🇨🇬) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word.

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Noun

 * 1) A wooden stake; a picket.
 * 2) * 1707,, The Whole Art of Husbandry, London: H. Mortlock & J. Robinson, 2nd edition, 1708, Chapter 1, pp. 11-12,
 * if you deſign it a Fence to keep in Deer, at every eight or ten Foot diſtance, ſet a Poſt with a Mortice in it to ſtand a little ſloping over the ſide of the Bank about two Foot high; and into the Mortices put a Rail and no Deer will go over it, nor can they creep through it, as they do often, when a Pale tumbles down.
 * 1)  Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
 * 2)  Limits, bounds (especially before ).
 * 3) * 1645,, , in The Poetical Works of Milton, volume II, Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, and Cochran, published 1755, p. 151, lines 155–160:
 * But let my due feet never fail, / To walk the ſtudious cloyſters pale, / And love the high embowed roof, / With antic pillars maſſy proof, / And ſtoried windows richly dight, / Caſting a dim religious light.
 * 1)   A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
 * 2)  A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
 * 3)  The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
 * 4)  The territory around  under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
 * 5)  A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the ).
 * 6)  The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
 * 7) A cheese scoop.
 * 1)  A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
 * 2)  The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
 * 3)  The territory around  under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
 * 4)  A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the ).
 * 5)  The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
 * 6) A cheese scoop.
 * 1)  A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live (the ).
 * 2)  The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
 * 3) A cheese scoop.
 * 1) A cheese scoop.

Translations

 * Arabic: لَوْح
 * Belarusian: кол, тыніна
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: paliso
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: påle, pæl
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, штаке́т
 * Ukrainian: штахе́т


 * Belarusian: частакол, тын
 * Bulgarian: ограда от колове
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: paaluaita
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: moraalin rajat


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: cuaille
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペイル
 * Norwegian: stolpe
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:, etuvarustus


 * Macedonian: ,
 * Norwegian:

Verb

 * 1) To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) cheek

Etymology
(or some western Oïl language), from. .

Noun

 * 1) blade (of a propeller etc)
 * 2) vane (of a windmill etc)

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to talk, to speak

Verb

 * 1) to ward off
 * 2) to protect

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) padding at the bottom of a horse's stirrup

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) a wrestling

Noun

 * 1)  hand

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) worker

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * , whitish or having little color