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foal

  • /fəʊl/ UK
  • [fɔʊɫ] UK
  • /fɒl/
  • /fɐʉl/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /foʊl/ US
  • [foɫ] US

Rhymes with -əʊl

Where it comes from

From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”).

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly.

noun foals · foale · fole

  1. A young horse or similar young equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old. Near-synonym: horseling (often synonymous)

    Similar: horseling

  2. historical A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

verb foals · foaling · foaled · foale · fole

  1. ambitransitive To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

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noun young horse

Españolpotranco, potro, potra, potrillo
한국어망아지 mang'aji
日本語子馬 kouma
中文駒子 /驹子 jūzi, 駒 /驹 jū, 䮔 zuī
Kiswahilimwanafarasi
Portuguêspotro
Françaispoulain, pouliche
DeutschFohlen, Füllen, Jungpferd
Italianopuledro
Ελληνικάπουλάρι poulári
Românămânz, mânză
Русскийжеребёнок žerebjónok
Tiếng Việtngựa con, lừa con
العربيةمُهْر muhr, فِلْو filw
עבריתסייח s’yách

verb give birth (equestrian)

Portuguêsparir
Françaispouliner
Deutschfohlen
Românăfăta
Русскийжереби́ться žerebítʹsja, ожереби́ться ožerebítʹsja

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@misc{foal_2026,
  title = {foal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}