pool

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1) A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
 * 2) Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
 * 3) A supply of resources.
 * 4)  A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
 * 5) A small amount of liquid on a surface.
 * 6) A localized glow of light.
 * 1) Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
 * 2) A supply of resources.
 * 3)  A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
 * 4) A small amount of liquid on a surface.
 * 5) A localized glow of light.
 * 1)  A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
 * 2) A small amount of liquid on a surface.
 * 3) A localized glow of light.
 * 1) A small amount of liquid on a surface.
 * 2) A localized glow of light.
 * 1) A localized glow of light.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: swembad
 * Arabic: بِرْكَة
 * Assamese: ডোঙা
 * Avar: хӏавуз
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: вир
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pool
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, , ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician: poza
 * Georgian: გუბე
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: linn, dabhach
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: stāgnum
 * Malay:
 * Manchu: ᠣᠮᠣ
 * Maori: hangere,kōpua, pūroto, āria
 * Old English: mere, pōl
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * S'gaw Karen: ကွံ
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glumag, linne, amar
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: dagat-dagatan
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: สระน้ำ
 * Tocharian B: kaumiye, yolme
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎋𐎚
 * Ukrainian:, ставо́к
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Zulu: isiziba, ichibi


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: pøl
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: poza
 * Georgian: გუბე
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Low German: Pool
 * Maori: hōpua
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glumag, amar
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: общ запас
 * Catalan: reserva
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Malay: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: фонд, пул


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:


 * Catalan:
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 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:

Verb

 * 1)  To form a pool.

Etymology 2
1. From. The French word "poule" in this context is an abbreviation of "poulain, pouliche" (foal, filly), and referred to races with female horses under 3 years old. It then became used by punters to designate bets on that race, and started to be used from the racetrack to the stadiums.

2. The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of, which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.

Noun

 * 1)  A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
 * 2)   A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
 * 3) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
 * 4)  A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
 * 5)  A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
 * 6) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
 * 7) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
 * 8)  A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
 * The pool took all the wheat offered below the limit.
 * He put $10,000 into the pool.
 * 1) A set of players in quadrille etc.
 * 2)  A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
 * 3)  An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
 * 1) A set of players in quadrille etc.
 * 2)  A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
 * 3)  An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.

Translations

 * Polish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 花式撞球
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese: ポケットビリヤード,
 * Korean: 포켓볼
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Samoan: piliati
 * Spanish:
 * Tetum: billar
 * Tongan: hoka, piliate
 * Vietnamese: bi-a
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish: ;


 * Catalan:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
 * 2) * 27 February 2010,, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
 * Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
 * 1)  To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
 * 1) * 27 February 2010,, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
 * Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
 * 1)  To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Maori: whakamoana
 * Polish: zsumować
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French: mettre en commun
 * Maori: whakamoana
 * Portuguese: unir esforços
 * Spanish:

Etymology 1
From, which itself is from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   (especially of the Earth and other celestial bodies)
 * 2)   (e.g. of a battery)
 * 3)  an opposing side of a principle or a doctrine

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) a   such as a football pool
 * 2) the  involved in such a venture
 * 3) an  where people pool in money to share one resource such as a

Etymology 3
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) the  ( usually  hair) on certain fabrics, velvet or carpeting

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) half
 * 2) side

Declension
The nonstandard plural partitive is somewhat common in colloquial use.

Postposition

 * 1) at, to, towards

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) bobbin, coil

Noun

 * 1)  sport

Noun

 * 1) large fire which causes damage

Noun

 * 1) fire

Noun

 * 1)  sport

Etymology
Since 1968; from, related to Swedish.

Noun

 * 1) a swimming pool

Numeral

 * 1) half