earl - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English erl, erle, from Old English eorl, from Proto-West Germanic *erl, from Proto-Germanic *erlaz (compare Old Saxon erl, Old Norse jarl), from Proto-Germanic *erōną, *arōną (compare Old Norse jara (“fight, battle”)). Doublet of eorl and jarl. Unrelated to ealdorman (“alderman”).
- enPR: ûrl
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɝl/
- (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ɛrl/, (rare) /ɛːrl/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
- Homophone: URL
earl (plural earls)
- (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
a British or Irish nobleman
- Afrikaans: graaf (af)
- Armenian: կոմս (hy) (koms)
- Azerbaijani: qraf
- Belarusian: граф m (hraf), грап m (hrap), эрл m (erl)
- Bulgarian: граф m (graf), ерл m (erl)
- Catalan: comte (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: yurl m
- Czech: hrabě (cs) m
- Danish: jarl c
- Dutch: graaf (nl) m, earl m
- Esperanto: grafo (eo)
- Estonian: krahv (et)
- Faroese: jarl m
- Finnish: jaarli (fi)
- French: comte (fr) m, earl (fr) m
- Georgian: ერლი (ka) (erli), გრაფი (grapi)
- German: Graf (de) m, Earl (de) m
- Greek: κόμης (el) m (kómis)
- Hindi: अर्ल (hi) m (arla)
- Hungarian: gróf (hu)
- Icelandic: jarl (is) m
- Ido: komto (io)
- Irish: iarla (ga) m
- Italian: conte (it) m
- Japanese: 伯爵 (ja) (はくしゃく, hakushaku)
- Khmer: ព្រះ (km) (prĕəh)
- Korean: 백작(伯爵) (ko) (baekjak)
- Latin: comes m
- Latvian: grāfs m
- Lithuanian: grafas m
- Macedonian: ерл m (erl), гроф m (grof)
- Manx: eearley m
- Marathi: अर्ल m (arla)
- Middle English: erl
- Norwegian:
- Old English: eorl m
- Old Norse: jarl m
- Persian: اَرل (arl)
- Polish: earl (pl) m, hrabia (pl) m
- Portuguese: conde (pt) m
- Romanian: conte (ro) m
- Russian: граф (ru) m (graf), эрл (ru) m (erl) (in Anglo-Saxon England before Norman conquest)
- Scottish Gaelic: iarla m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: gróf (sk) m
- Slovene: grof (sl) m
- Spanish: conde (es) m
- Swedish: jarl (sv) c
- Thai: เอิร์ล
- Ukrainian: граф m (hraf), ерл m (erl)
- Urdu: اَرْل m (arla)
- Vietnamese: bá tước (vi) (伯爵)
- Welsh: iarll m
- ^ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 7, page 470: “Earl is recorded with ę̄ by Cooper, and with ĕ by Hodges, Price, Poole, Stringer, Brown, and RS.”.
Unadapted borrowing from English earl, from Middle English erle, erl, from Old English eorl, from Proto-Germanic *erlaz, from *erōną, *arōną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-.
earl m pers
- earl (British or Irish nobleman)
- earl in Polish dictionaries at PWN