foal
To give birth to; to bear offspringTo give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
» My mare foaled.
Meine Stute hat gefohlt. — Zaghawa
Моя кобыла ожеребилась. — Balamax
Моя кобила ожеребилася. — Balamax
Balamax · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
fohlen
жереби́тьсяžerebítʹsja, ожереби́тьсяožerebítʹsja
give birth to a foal
Examples
13 sentencesMy mare foaled.
Моя кобила ожеребилася. — Balamax
ruМоя кобыла ожеребилась. — Balamax
deMeine Stute hat gefohlt. — Zaghawa
The foal has a short tail.
ruУ жеребёнка короткий хвост. — Selena777
deDas Fohlen hat einen kurzen Schwanz. — Yorwba
Tom gave birth to two foals.
How is your new foal managing?
The mare gave birth to a foal.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from PFrom 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”).
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Forms
foals, foaling, foaled, foaledWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.