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Paul
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paul pa'ul
English
Etymology
en :lbor la:Paulus 2 1 en Pablo Paolo.
Pronunciation
en /pɔːl/ RP
en /pɔl/ /pɑl/<a:cot-caught> GenAm
en en-us-Paul.ogg US female voice
en En-us-Paul.oga US male voice
en ɔːl 1
en Paul
en pall pawl
Proper noun
~
en biblical character In the New Testament, the Christian Apostle to the Gentiles and the author of fourteen epistles, born Saul of Tarsus.
Acts 13 9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.
en male Latin < the Bible Paula,Paulette,Paulina,Pauline.
Dombey and Son: Chapter 1 'He will be christened Paul, my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
en 2006-10-18 w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/movies/18holl.html Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link David M. Halbfinger Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture. https://web.archive.org/web/20250621151104/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/movies/hollywood-film-chains-latest-link.html
en Matt McFarland Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t) w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/business/speedometers-160-mph 2022-09-10 Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read. https://web.archive.org/web/20260515165213/https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/business/speedometers-160-mph 15 May 2026
en patronymics.
en Jacob Sullum Brendan Carr and Ted Cruz Don't Think Charlie Kirk's Murder Justifies Speech Restrictions Reason (magazine) Reason https://reason.com/2025/09/16/brendan-carr-and-ted-cruz-dont-think-charlie-kirks-murder-justifies-speech-restrictions/ 2025-09-16 In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter. https://web.archive.org/web/20260318094541/https://reason.com/2025/09/16/brendan-carr-and-ted-cruz-dont-think-charlie-kirks-murder-justifies-speech-restrictions/ 18 March 2026
en place name:
en ucomm co/Conecuh County s/Alabama c/USA, named after Paul the Apostle.
en city co/Minidoka County s/Idaho c/USA.
en ucomm co/Otoe County s/Nebraska c/USA.
en village south of vill/Newlyn in par/Penzance south-west co/Cornwall cc/England OS grid ref SW4627. The civil parish of Paul (abolished 2021) did not include the village in latter years, and is now included in St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul.
en mun on isl/Santo Antão c/Cape Verde.
Derived terms
en County of St. Paul Paul Allen's flower fly (Eristalis alleni species) Paul Bert effect Paul Blart Paul Bunyan Paulian Paulie Pauline Paulism Paulist Paulite Paulsboro paulscherrerite Paul Smiths Paulstretch Pauls Valley Paultard Paul Veronese green rob Peter to pay Paul Saint Paul Charlestown Saint Paul,St. Paul St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul St Paul's Walden
Related terms
en Fyall Mackfall MacPhail McFall McFaul McPhail Paule Paulet Pauley Paulin Pauling Paull Paulley Paulson Pauly Paw Pawle Pawlett Pawley Pawling Pawlyn Pawson Pole Poles Poll Pollard Pollins Polson Pool Poole Poulsom Poulson Powell Powles Powley Powling Quail Quaile Quayle
Translations
Christian apostle
Albanian: sq Palush m
Amharic: am ጳውሎስ
Arabic: ar بُولُس
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܦܵܘܠܘܿܣ m Pawlos
Armenian: hy Պողոս
Bulgarian: bg Па́вел m
Catalan: ca Pau m
Cherokee: chr ᏉᎳ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 保羅 bou2 lo4, yue 保祿 bou2 luk6 Catholic
Hakka: hak 保羅 Pó-lò
Hokkien: nan-hbl 保羅 Pó-lô, nan-hbl 保祿 Pó-lo̍k Catholic
Mandarin: cmn 保羅 Bǎoluó, cmn 保祿 Bǎolù Catholic
Comorian:
Maore Comorian: swb Ɓaulusu
Coptic: cop ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ
Czech: cs Pavel m
Danish: da Paulus m
Dutch: nl Paulus m
Esperanto: eo Paŭlo
Estonian: et Paulus
Faroese: fo Paulus m
Finnish: fi Paavali
French: fr Paul m
Old French: fro Pol m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Paulus
German: de Paulus m
Gothic: got 𐍀𐌰𐍅𐌻𐌿𐍃 m
Greek: el Παύλος m
Ancient Greek: grc Παῦλος m
Haitian Creole: ht Pòl
Hawaiian: haw Paulo
Hebrew: he פאולוס
Hindi: hi पौलुस m
Hungarian: hu Pál
Irish: ga Pól m, ga Naomh Pól m
Italian: it Paolo m
Japanese: ja パウロ Pauro
Kazakh: kk Пауыл
Korean: ko ^바오로
Latin: la Paulus m
Latvian: lv Pāvils m
Lithuanian: lt Paulius m
Macedonian: mk Павле m
Malay: ms Paulus
Maltese: mt Pawlu m
Māori: mi Pāora
Marathi: mr पॉल m
Norwegian: no Paulus, no Pål
Old English: ang Paulus m
Old Nubian: onw ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ
Persian: fa پولس pulos
Middle Persian:
Manichean: pal 𐫛𐫇𐫓𐫏𐫘 Pawlīs
Polish: pl Paweł m
Portuguese: pt Paulo m
Romanian: ro Pavel m
Russian: ru Па́вел m
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Bávlos
Sindhi: sd پولس
Sinhalese: si පාවුල්
Slovene: sl Pavel m
Spanish: es Pablo m
Swahili: sw Paulo
Swedish: sv Paulus c
Tigrinya: ti ጳውሎስ
Ukrainian: uk Павло́ m
Urdu: ur پولس pawlus m, ur پولوس m pawlos
Vietnamese: vi Phao-lô, vi Phaolô, vi Bảo Lộc
Welsh: cy Paul m, cy Pawl m
male given name
Albanian: sq Palush m, sq Pal m
Amharic: am ጳውሎስ
Arabic: ar بَوْل m
Hijazi Arabic: acw بول m bōl, acw پول m pōl
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܦܵܘܠܘܿܣ m Pawlos
Armenian: hy Պողոս
Basque: eu Paulo
Belarusian: be Па́вал m cognate, be Пол m transliteration
Breton: br Paol
Bulgarian: bg Па́вел m, bg Пол m
Catalan: ca Pau m, ca Pol m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 保羅 Bǎoluó
Coptic: cop ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ
Cornish: kw Pawl
Czech: cs Pavel m
Danish: da Poul c
Dutch: nl Paul m, nl Pol m
Esperanto: eo Paŭlo
Estonian: et Paavel, et Paavo
Faroese: fo Páll m, fo Pál m
Finnish: fi Paavali, fi Paavo, fi Pauli
Franco-Provençal: frp Por, frp Pol
French: fr Paul m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Pouw
Galician: gl Paulo m
Georgian: ka პავლე
German: de Paul m
Greek: el Παύλος m, transliterations: el Πολ, dated el Πωλ
Greenlandic: kl Pavia, kl Paalu
Hawaiian: haw Paulo
Hebrew: he פול pol
Hindi: hi पॉल
Hungarian: hu Pál
Icelandic: is Páll m
Irish: ga Póil, ga Pól m
Italian: it Paolo m
Japanese: ja ポール Pо̄ru
Korean: ko ^폴
Latin: la Paulus m
Latvian: lv Pauls m
Lithuanian: lt Paulius m
Macedonian: mk Павле m
Maltese: mt Pawl m, mt Pawlu m
Mansi:
Northern Mansi: mns-nor Па̄ял
Māori: mi Pāora
Marathi: mr पॉल m
Norwegian: no Pål, no Paul
Old Nubian: onw ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ
Persian: fa پاول pâol
Polish: pl Paweł m
Portuguese: pt Paulo m
Romanian: ro Pavel m
Russian: ru Па́вел m cognate, ru Пол m transliteration
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Bávlos
Skolt Sami: sms Paavvâl
Scottish Gaelic: gd Pòl m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Павле m, sh Павао m
Latin: sh Pavle m, sh Pavao m
Slovak: sk Pavol m
Slovene: sl Pavel m
Spanish: es Pablo m
Swahili: sw Paulo
Swedish: sv Paul, sv Pål
Telugu: te పాల్
Ukrainian: uk Павло́ m cognate, uk Пол m transliteration
Urdu: ur پال m pāl m
Venetan: vec Poło
Welsh: cy Paul m, cy Pawl m
Yakut: sah Байбал
Anagrams
en alpu Palu Pula ULPA pula
en Biblical characters
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb en Paul, from ceb la Paulus, la paulus small.
Pronunciation
pol
Proper noun
pol
ceb male English < Latin
See also
ceb Paulo
Cimbrian
Proper noun
cim proper noun
cim male Latin Paul
References
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da male, a variant of the much more popular Poul
Dutch
Etymology
From nl la Paulus.
Pronunciation
nl /pɑu̯l/
nl Nl-Paul.ogg
nl Paul
Proper noun
m
nl male Paul
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et male Paul
et male given names from Latin
Finnish
Etymology
From fi la Paulus, probably via fi sv Paul, fi de Paul or fi en Paul. Cognate with the older Finnish fi Paavo.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi male
fi 1946 w:Anni Swan Pauli on koditon 21 WSOY 1960 —Sanohan ensin mikä nimesi on?—Pauli.—Pauli, toisti Anna hitaasti. Minulla oli ennen pieni, Paul niminen veli, lisäsi hän. —Could you first tell me your name?—Pauli.—Pauli, Anna slowly repeated. I used to have a little brother named Paul, she added.
Usage notes
More common in the vernacular form fi Pauli.
Declension
Paul a 0
Statistics
dvv_20250813 1744 1603 273
References
Anagrams
fi alpu lupa pula
French
Pronunciation
pɔl
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-Paul.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
Proper noun
m
en Paul biblical figure
fr male
Derived terms
fr déshabiller Paul pour habiller Jean déshabiller Pierre pour habiller Paul attacher Pierre avec Paul Popaul
Related terms
fr Jean-Paul
female given names: fr Paule, fr Paulette, fr Pauline, fr Marie-Paule
Descendants
ht Pòl
Anagrams
fr palu, fr Pula
fr Biblical characters
German
Etymology
Borrowed from de la Paulus.
Pronunciation
de /paʊ̯l/
de De-Paul.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m
de male Latin Paul Paula,Paulina,Pauline
Related terms
biblical form: de Paulus
Italian
it:
Etymology 1
it en Paul.
Pronunciation
Pól<r:DiPI<<name:dipi>>>
Proper noun
mfbysense
it en male given name,surname
Etymology 2
it de Paul.
Pronunciation
Pàul<r:<<name:dipi>>>
Proper noun
mfbysense
it de male given name,surname
Etymology 3
it fr Paul.
Pronunciation
Pól,!Pòl<r:<<name:dipi>>>
Proper noun
m
it fr male given name
References
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun m feminine Paula
no male
Related terms
no Pål
Polish
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-KaMan-Paul.wav
Proper noun
m-pr
pl m
Declension
<m.pr.surname>
Proper noun
f 1
pl f
Derived terms
pl Paulówna Paulowa
See also
Appendix:Polish surnames
Swedish
Alternative forms
sv Pål
Etymology
Clipping of sv la Paulus. Cognate with en Paul.
Pronunciation
sv /ˈpa͜ʊl/
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Paul.wav
Proper noun
c
sv male
Related terms
biblical sv Paulus
female given names sv Paula, sv Paulina
References
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :bor en:Paul 2 1 Pablo,Paolo,Paulo
Pronunciation
pol #
Proper noun
pol
tl male English < Latin
Welsh
Etymology
cy la Paulus. cy Pawl.
Pronunciation
cy /pau̯l/
cy au̯l 1
Proper noun
m
cy male Paul
Mutation