foal
/fɒl/UK/fəʊl/
foal noun: a young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
Noun
foal (plural foals)
Verb
foal (third-person singular simple present foals, present participle foaling, simple past and past participle foaled)
- 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.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
- "Well," said John, "I don't believe there is a better pair of horses in the country, and right grieved I am to part with them, but they are not alike; the black one is the most perfect temper I ever knew; I suppose he has never known a hard word or a blow since he was foaled, and all his pleasure...[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102
foal meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
foal in Tamil
- குதிரை குட்டி, பரிக்குட்டி, கழுதைக் குட்டி
foal in Malayalam
- കുതിരക്കൂട്ടി, കഴുതക്കൂട്ടി, അശ്വപോതം
foal in Kannada
- ಕುದುರೆಮರಿ, ಕತ್ತೆಮರಿ
foal in Tagalog
- young horse
- bisiro
More languagesFewer languages
- foal in Arabic
- مُهْر muhr, فِلْو filw
- foal in Malay
- anak kuda
- foal in Indonesian
- anak kuda
- foal in Persian
- کره korre
- foal in Vietnamese
- ngựa con, lừa con
- foal in Myanmar
- မြင်းကလေး mrang:ka.le:
Examples of foal in a sentence
- The stallion got with foal three out of four mares.
- The world can be a dangerous place for fox kits, flaminglets, armadillo pups, and zebra foals.
- You saw yourself as a “starter woman.” A recently hatched egg foundling foal fawn.
Forms of foal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | foals |
| alternative form (obsolete) | foale |
| alternative form (obsolete) | fole |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | foals |
| present participle | foaling |
| past participle | foaled |
| past | foaled |
Origin of foal
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.
Words formed from foal
Phrases with foal
Words that rhyme with foal
47 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- parole
- toll
- dole
- goal
- patrol
- role
- swole
- bricole
- condole
- mole
- noel
- whole
- stroll
- bole
- knoll
- shoal
- carmagnole
- pistole
- prole
- Seoul
- stole
- thole
- Tyrol
- baklol
- cajole
- console
- decontrol
- dhole
- droll
- extol
- extrasystole
- gnoll
- hop pole
- indol
- kohl
- memorial pole
- micromole
- mol
- Nicole
- nole
- ole
- parasystole
- schizocoel
- schizocoele
- sowl
- square peg in a round hole
- vole
Questions about foal
- What does foal mean?
- Foal means a young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
- What is foal in Tamil?
- Foal in Tamil is குதிரை குட்டி, பரிக்குட்டி, கழுதைக் குட்டி. See Foal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is foal?
- Foal can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce foal?
- Foal is pronounced /fəʊl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of foal?
- The plural of foal is foals.
Words near foal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: foal (page history and authors); foal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); foal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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