poil

See also: poił and Póil

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin pilus.

Noun

poil m (plural poils)

1. a hair on the body

French

Etymology

From an earlier Old French peil, from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwal/

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

poil m (plural poils)

1. hair (on the body)
2. bristle (on a brush)

Derived terms

• à poil
• à rebrousse-poil
• au poil
• avoir un poil dans la main
• bichon à poil frisé
• caresser dans le sens du poil
• de mauvais poil
• de tout poil
• d’un poil
• poil à gratter
• poil au nez
• poil aux dents
• poil pubien
• poilu
• reprendre du poil de la bête
• tarte aux poils
• un poil

 

See also

• cheveu

Further reading

• “poil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• poli

Irish

Noun

poil m

1. inflection of pol:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
poil	phoil	bpoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.