gal

㏿ U+33FF, ㏿ SQUARE GAL ← ㏾ [U+33FE] CJK Compatibility 㐀 → [U+3400]

• IPA^(key): /ɡæl/

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• Rhymes: -æl

From gallon.

gal (plural gal or gals)

1. Abbreviation of gallon.

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole gyal (“girl”), from English girl.

gal (plural gals)

1. (colloquial) A young woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl

   Coordinate term: guy

• galge
• kogal

• → Icelandic: gella
• → Japanese: ギャル (gyaru)
  • → English: gyaru

Shortened from galileo.

gal (plural gals, symbol Gal)

1. A galileo (unit of acceleration).

• AGL, ALG, Alg., GLA, LAG, LGA, lag

From Dutch gal. Cognate to English gall.

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gal (uncountable)

1. The bodily fluid bile

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːᴬ (“leg”). Cognate with Thai ขา (kǎa), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ, Lao ຂາ (khā), Lü ᦃᦱ (ẋaa), Shan ၶႃ (khǎa), Tai Nüa ᥑᥣᥴ (xáa), Ahom 𑜁𑜡 (khā), Zhuang ga.

• IPA^(key): /ka˨˦/

gal

1. (anatomy) leg; foot

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡal]
• Rhymes: -al

gal (feminine gal·la, masculine plural gals, feminine plural gal·les)

1. Gaulish, Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul)

   Synonym: gàl·lic

gal m (plural gals, feminine gal·la)

1. Gaul (a person from Gaul)

gal m (uncountable)

1. Gaulish (Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul)

   Synonym: gàl·lic

• “gal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Short for galgame, borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), which is wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from gal +‎ game.

gal

1. (ACG, video games) galge (video or computer game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls)

   推gal  ―  tuī gal  ―  to play galge

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːˀl/, [ˈɡ̊æˀl]

From Old Danish galæn, from Old Norse galinn (“enchanted, mad”), a past participle of gala (“to sing, chant”) (Danish gale (“to crow”)).

gal (neuter galt, plural and definite singular attributive gale)

1. crazy, mad, insane (mentally ill)
2. mad, angry (showing temper)
3. wrong (not the right one)
4. bad

• “gale,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse gal (“shouting”), derived from the verb gala (“to sing, chant”) (Danish gale (“to crow”)).

gal n (singular definite galet, plural indefinite gal)

1. crow (the sound of a cock)

• “gale,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gal

1. imperative of gale

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑl/

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• Hyphenation: gal
• Rhymes: -ɑl

From Middle Dutch galle, from Old Dutch galla, from Proto-Germanic *gallō.

gal f (uncountable)

1. bile, gall (yellow-green bodily fluid secreted by the liver)
2. bile, anger, wrath

• Afrikaans: gal
• Berbice Creole Dutch: gali
• Negerhollands: gal
• → Papiamentu: hal, gal

Ultimately from Latin galla. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

gal f (plural gallen, diminutive galletje n)

1. a gall (abnormal growth on a plant caused by foreign organisms)

• alg, lag

From Latin gallus.

gal m

1. cock

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gal m (plural gals)

1. a unit of acceleration equal to one centimetre per second per second

From gala (“to crow”).

• IPA^(key): /kaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

gal n (genitive singular gals, no plural)

1. crowing (of a rooster)
2. yelling

Declension of gal
n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	gal	galið
accusative	gal	galið
dative	gali	galinu
genitive	gals	galsins

From Old Irish gal, from Proto-Celtic *galā (“ability”) (compare Welsh gallu (“be able”)).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡɑl̪ˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡalˠ/, /ɡal̪ˠ/

gal f or m (genitive singular gaile, nominative plural gala)

1. warlike ardor
2. valor, fury
3. vapor, steam
4. boiling heat
5. puff, whiff (of smoke, hot air)
6. fit, bout, turn
7. demand

• láth gaile
• tuirbín gaile (“steam turbine”)

gal m (genitive singular gail, nominative plural gala)

1. blusterer

   Synonyms: bliústar, bolscaire, galach

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gal	ghal	ngal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65

A shortening derived from "gali (“it may”) būti (“be”)".

• IPA^(key): [ɡaːl]

gál

1. maybe, perhaps

   Synonym: galbūt

• gol

From Old English gāl (“lustful, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *gail, from Proto-Germanic *gailaz.

gal (Early Middle English)

1. lascivious, lustful
   • c. 1225, “Oðer dale: fif ƿittes”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎^[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 15, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     naƿt ane euch fleſchlich hondlunge: ah ȝetten euch gal ƿoꝛd: iſ ladlich vilainie […]

     Not just each amorous caress, but even each lustful word is revolting depravity […]

   • Sweche pinen he þolien schal þat her wes of his fles ful gal And wolde louien his fleses wil. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300
2. overly fond of

   Gripes freteþ hoere mawen And hoere inward everuidel, Ne be þe þarof no so gal, Eft hoe werpeþ al in al. — Eleven Pains of Hell, 1300

• “gōl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

gal

1. tree

From Old Norse galinn, from gala (“sing bewitching songs, in actuality bewitched by magical singing”).

gal (neuter singular galt, definite singular and plural gale, comparative galere, indefinite superlative galest, definite superlative galeste)

1. insane; crazy; out of one's mind; mad
2. incorrect; erroneous; wrong; illegal; morally reproachable

• galehus
• galskap
• (insane; crazy): stormannsgal
• (with a very strong interest in): bilgal, fartsgal, guttegal, jentegal, sexgal
• (phrases): bære galt av sted, det er aldri så galt at det ikke er godt for noe, gå galt, riv ruskende gal, vill og gal

Related to the verb gale.

gal n (definite singular galet, indefinite plural gal, definite plural gala or galene)

1. crow ((instance of) rooster's crowing)

• hanegal

• nattergal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gal

1. imperative of gale

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• lag, gla

From gala (“to howl”).

gal n (definite singular galet, indefinite plural gal, definite plural gala)

1. a crow, howl, scream

• galing f

Abbreviation.

gal (upper case Gal)

1. Abbreviation of galatarbrevet.

Possibly from English. An abbreviation.

gal

1. symbol used to represent a gallon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gal

1. imperative of gala

• “gal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

gal (masculine and feminine gal, neuter galt, definite singular and plural gale, comparative galare, indefinite superlative galast, definite superlative galaste)

1. (nonstandard) galen

gal m

1. (eye dialect spelling, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Alternative spelling of gard (“farm”)

• Gal, gla, lag

From Latin gallus.

• IPA^(key): (East Vivaro-Alpine) [ˈdʒal]^[1]
• IPA^(key): (Provençal) [ˈɡau̯]
• IPA^(key): (East Languedocien) [ˈɡal]
• IPA^(key): (West Languedocien) [ˈɡal]

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gal m (plural gals)

1. A cock, rooster

• Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.

From Proto-West Germanic *gail.

Cognate with Old Saxon gēl, Dutch geil (“salacious, lustful”), Old High German geil (German geil (“lustful”)), Old Norse geiligr (“beautiful”). The Indo-European root may also be the source of Lithuanian gailùs (“sharp, biting”), Russian зело́ (zeló, “very”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːl/

gāl (comparative gālra, superlative gālost)

1. wanton, lustful; wicked
   • And se Iouis wearð swa swyðe gal þæt he on his agenre swyster gewifode.

     And Jove became so depraved that he married his own sister.

     (Wulfstan, De Falsis Deis)

• Middle English: gal, gol
  • English: gole (dialectal)

• jal

Uncertain. Perhaps from Transalpine Gaulish *gallos.

gal oblique singular, m (oblique plural gaus or gax or gals, nominative singular gaus or gax or gals, nominative plural gal)

1. a rock

• galeit
  • French: galet, galette
  • Norman: galet, galette, galiche, galot

• “galet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

From Proto-Celtic *galā.

• IPA^(key): /ɡal/

gal f (genitive gaile)

1. ardor
2. fury
3. valor
   • c. 760 Blathmac mac Con Brettan, published in "A study of the lexicon of the poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan" (2017; PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth), edited and with translations by Siobhán Barrett, stanza 130

     Co rígaib ránaib cét ngal   co láthib do·ruíchetar.

     With the noble kings of a hundred feats of valour,   they have taken revenge with warriors.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	galL	gailL	galaH
Vocative	galL	gailL	galaH
Accusative	gailN	gailL	galaH
Genitive	gaileH	galL	galN
Dative	gailL	galaib	galaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Many derivatives of gal serve as verbal nouns to compounds of fichid (“to fight”).

Gal is also a common as the second element of male given names in Old Irish. Despite all these given names being male, they inherit gal's feminine ā-stem declension.

• Middle Irish: gal
  • Irish: gal
  • Scottish Gaelic: gal

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gal	gal pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

gal

1. second-person singular present active imperative of gala

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: gal
• Homophone: Gal

From Latin.

Chemical element
Ga
Previous: cynk (Zn)
Next: german (Ge)

gal m inan

1. gallium

Named in honour of Galileo Galilei

gal m inan

1. A galileo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gal

1. genitive plural of gala

• gal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• 𐴒𐴝𐴓𐴢 (gal) — Hanifi Rohingya script

gal (Hanifi spelling 𐴒𐴝𐴓𐴢)

1. mouth

From Latin găllum (“rooster”), accusative of Latin gallus (“rooster”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɐ̯l]

• (Ville Unite):

gal m (plural ghël)

1. rooster (male domestic fowl)

   September 2012, Loris Pasini, E’ gal in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

   E’ gal.

   The rooster.

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 246

Borrowed from Latin Gallus.

gal m (plural gali)

1. a Gaul

Borrowed from French gal.

gal m (plural gali)

1. (physics) unit of measurement of acceleration, equal to 1 centimeter per second squared

• gâl

• IPA^(key): /kal̪ˠ/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gal m (genitive singular gail, plural gail)

1. verbal noun of gail (“cry, weep”)
2. (act of) crying, wailing
3. wail

From Old Irish gal (“warlike ardour, fury, valour”).

gal m (genitive singular gail, plural gail)

1. burst of light/heat
2. ardour
3. valour
4. fury
5. vapour, steam

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
gal	ghal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• gȃo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *galъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡâːl/
• Hyphenation: gal

gȃl (Cyrillic spelling га̑л)

1. (dated) black, dark (physical attributes)
2. (dated) dark fur

• cȓn
• mȑk

• gàljan

• gȁlica

gal

1. enter

   musqusha gal ― enter the toilet

gal

1. Romanization of 𒃲 (gal)

gal

1. inflection of gala:
   1. present indicative
   2. imperative

• alg, lag

• IPA^(key): /ɡal˧/

gal

1. war

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 44