foal

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n. 驹 v. 生仔

发音

UK /fəʊl/
UK /fɔʊɫ/
/fɒl/
AU /fɐʉl/
NZ /fɐʉl/
US /foʊl/
US /foɫ/

词形变化

foals 复数 foals foaled foaling foals 三单 foaling 现在分词 foaled 过去式 foaled 过去分词

别名

foale fole

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

    驹子

    驹

    䮔

  2. 2.

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

    历史 商务 采矿
v.
  1. 1.

    To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

    及物/不及物

词汇关系

名词

下位词 2

colt filly

整体词 1

horse
动词

上位词 5

have bear birth deliver give birth

相关短语

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词源

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.

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