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Audio Help [pal] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, palled, pal·ling. Informal.

–noun

1.	a very close, intimate friend; comrade; chum.

2.	an accomplice.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to associate as comrades or chums: to pal around with the kid next door.

[Origin: 1675–85; < English Romany: brother, mate, dissimilated var. of continental Romany phral ≪ Skt bhrātṛ brother

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–noun

a special air service offered by the U.S. Postal Service for sending parcels from 5 to 30 lb. (2.3 to 13.5 kg) to overseas servicemen: only the regular parcel post rate to the U.S. port of shipment plus $1 is charged. Compare SAM (def. 2).

[Origin: P(arcel) A(ir) L(ift)

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PAL

Police Athletic League.

Also, P.A.L.

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Pal.

Palestine.

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pal.

1.	paleography.

2.	paleontology.

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pal Audio Help   (pāl) Pronunciation Key
n.   A friend; a chum.

intr.v.   palled, pal·ling, pals
To associate as friends or chums. Often used with around.

[Romany phral, phal, from Sanskrit bhrātā, bhrātr-, brother; see bhrāter- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: Pal, like buddy and chum, has an informal, thoroughly "American" ring to it. Its source, though, is rather unusual—Romany, the Indic language of the Gypsies. First recorded in English in the 17th century, pal was borrowed from a Romany word meaning "brother, comrade," which occurs as phal in the Romany spoken in England and phral in the Romany spoken in Europe. Gypsies speak an Indic language because they originally migrated to Europe from the border region between Iran and India. In other Indic languages we find related words meaning "brother," such as Hindustani bhāi and Prakrit bhāda or bhāyā; they all come from Sanskrit bhrātā, which in turn traces its ancestry to the same Indo-European word that our word brother does.

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pal

1681, from Romany (English Gypsy) pal "brother, comrade," variant of continental Romany pral, plal, phral, probably from Skt. bhrata "brother" (see brother).

"Better late than never, Pal, is a saying applicable on the present occasion." [Lord Byron, 1807]

The verb is first recorded 1879.

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pal
noun
1.	a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy]
verb
1.	become friends; act friendly towards

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pal [pӕl] noun

an informal word for a friend
Example: My son brought a pal home for tea.

Arabic:	صَديق
Chinese (Simplified):	伙伴
Chinese (Traditional):	伙伴
Czech:	kamarád, -ka
Danish:	kammerat
Dutch:	vriend
Estonian:	semu
Finnish:	kaveri
French:	copain, *-ine
German:	der Kumpel
Greek:	φίλος
Hungarian:	haver
Icelandic:	félagi
Indonesian:	teman
Italian:	amico

Japanese:	仲よし
Korean:	동료, 친구
Latvian:	draugs; biedrs
Lithuanian:	bičiulis, draugužis
Norwegian:	kompis, kamerat
Polish:	kompan, kumpel
Portuguese (Brazil):	amigo
Portuguese (Portugal):	compincha
Romanian:	tovarăş; prieten
Russian:	приятель
Slovak:	kamarát, -ka
Slovenian:	prijatelj
Spanish:	amigo, colega
Swedish:	kamrat, kompis
Turkish:	arkadaş, ahbap

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PAL
1. Paradox Application Language.
2. For the AVANCE distributed persistent operating system.
["PAL Reference Manual", M. Ahlsen et al, SYSLAB WP-125, Stockholm 1987].
["AVANCE: An Object Management System", A. Bjornerstedt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 23(11):206-221 (OOPSLA '88) (Nov 1988)].
[What is it?]
3. An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
["Inheritance Hierarchy Mechanism in Prolog", K. Akama, Proc Logic Prog '86, LNCS 264, Springer 1986, pp. 12-21].
4. PDP Assembly Language.
5. Pedagogic Algorithmic Language.
6. Programmable Array Logic.
7. phase alternating line.
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