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See also: Soul, soûl, and Söul

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:soulWikipedia

Etymology 1

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From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of an uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Alemannic German Seel (“soul”), Central Franconian Siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”), German Low German Seel (“soul”), Luxembourgish Séil (“soul, spirit”), Vilamovian zejł, zəjł, zyił (“soul”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 (saiwala, “soul”). Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon sēola. Modern Danish sjæl (“soul”), Icelandic sál (“soul”), Norwegian Bokmål sjel (“soul”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjel, sål (“soul”), Swedish själ (“soul”), Finnish sielu (“soul”) may have come from Old English sāwol.

Alternative forms

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  • sowl (archaic)
  • soule (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: sōl
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səʊl/, [sɔʊɫ], [sɒʊɫ]
    • (General American) IPA(key): /soʊl/
      • Audio (California):(file)
    • (Canada) IPA(key): [so̞ːɫ]
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /səʉl/, /sɐʉl/
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /sɐʉl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

Noun

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soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)

  1. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
    • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
    • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:Flowey: See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!
  2. The spirit or essence of anything.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
    • 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith‎[1], Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, pages 36–37:It is possible with only these qualities for a man to be a reasonably efficient President, but there is one thing more needed to make him a great President. It is that quality of soul which makes a man loved by little children, by dumb animals, that quality of soul which makes him a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble, that quality which makes him not merely admired, but loved by all the people - the quality of sympathetic understanding of the human heart, of real interest in one's fellow men.
  3. Life, energy, vigor.
    • 1725, [Edward Young], “Satire III. To the Right Honourable Mr. Dodington.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 52:That he vvants Algebra he muſt confeſs. / But not a ſoul to give our arms ſucceſs.
  4. (music) Soul music.
  5. A person, especially as one among many.
    • 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
  6. An individual life. Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
  7. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
Quotations
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

Synonyms
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  • (spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
  • (a person): See also Thesaurus:person
Derived terms
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  • after one's own soul
  • album-oriented soul
  • All Souls' Day
  • bare one's soul
  • bless my soul
  • blue-eyed soul
  • body and soul
  • brevity is the soul of wit
  • brown-eyed soul
  • cut away one's soul
  • dark night of the soul
  • dead soul
  • deep soul
  • ensoul
  • God rest her soul
  • God rest his soul
  • God rest their soul
  • heart and soul
  • hip hop soul
  • keep body and soul together
  • keep soul and body together
  • kindred soul
  • lay bare one's soul
  • life and soul of the party
  • Lord rest his soul
  • lost soul
  • may God have mercy on your soul
  • neo soul, neo-soul
  • northern soul
  • not a living soul
  • not a soul
  • object-soul
  • old soul
  • pour one's soul out, pour out one's soul
  • psychedelic soul
  • rest his soul
  • rest one's soul
  • sell one's soul
  • sell one's soul to the Devil
  • sell one's soul to the devil
  • shiver my soul
  • soul-ale
  • soul bell
  • soul blues
  • soul-blues
  • soul brother
  • soul cake
  • soul-cake
  • soul conjecture
  • soul-crushing
  • soul-crushingly
  • soul-destroying
  • souled
  • soul food
  • soul fragment
  • soulful
  • soulfully
  • soulfulness
  • soulish
  • soul kiss
  • soul knell
  • soullike
  • soul link
  • soul loss
  • soul-love
  • soulmate, soul mate
  • soul music
  • soul patch
  • soul roll
  • soul-search
  • soul search
  • soul-searcher
  • soul-searching
  • soul searching
  • soul-shaking
  • soul sister
  • soul sleep
  • soul-stirring
  • soul-sucking
  • soul theorem
  • soul tie
  • the eyes are the window to the soul
  • tripartite soul
  • upon my soul
  • white soul
  • world soul
  • world-soul
  • world's soul

English terms starting with “soul”

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  • mind
  • spirit
Descendants
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  • → German: Soul
  • → Esperanto: soulo
  • → French: soul
  • → Hungarian: soul
  • → Italian: soul
  • → Japanese: ソウル
  • → Polish: soul
  • → Portuguese: soul
  • → Romanian: soul
  • → Russian: со́ул (sóul)
  • → Scots: sowel
  • → Spanish: soul
  • → Ukrainian: со́ул (sóul)
Translations
[edit] the spirit or essence of a person that is often believed to live on after the person's death
  • Abkhaz: аԥсы (apsə)
  • Adyghe: псэ (psɛ)
  • Afrikaans: siel (af)
  • Ainu: ラマ (rama)
  • Akan: kra, ɔkra
  • Albanian: shpirt (sq) m, avë f, zë
  • Altai: Southern Altai: кут (kut), тын (tïn), јан (ǰan)
  • Amharic: ነፍስ (näfs)
  • Arabic: رُوح (ar) m or f (rūḥ), نَفْس (ar) f (nafs) Egyptian Arabic: روح f (rūḥ), نفس f (nafs)
  • Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܪܘܚܐ f (rūħā) Hebrew script: רוחא f (rūħā)
  • Armenian: հոգի (hy) (hogi)
  • Aromanian: suflit, suflet
  • Asturian: alma (ast) f
  • Avar: рухӏ (ruḥʳ)
  • Azerbaijani: ruh (az), can (az)
  • Bangi: molimo
  • Bashkir: йән (yən), рух (rux)
  • Basque: arima (eu), gogo
  • Belarusian: душа́ f (dušá)
  • Bengali: আত্মা (bn) (atta), রূহ (bn) (ruho), জান (bn) (jan)
  • Bhojpuri: आत्मा (ātmā)
  • Bikol: Central Bikol: kalag (bcl)
  • Breton: ene (br) m
  • Bulgarian: душа́ (bg) f (dušá)
  • Burmese: ဝိညာဉ် (my) (wi.nyany)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: душа́ f (dušá)
  • Catalan: ànima (ca) f
  • Cebuano: kalag
  • Chamicuro: sana'ne
  • Chechen: са (sa)
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎾᏔ (adanata)
  • Chichewa: mzímu class 3
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (ling4 wan4), 魂魄 (wan4 paak3) Hokkien: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (lêng-hûn), 魂魄 (zh-min-nan) (hûn-phek) Mandarin: 靈魂 / 灵魂 (zh) (línghún), 魂魄 (zh) (húnpò)
  • Chuukese: ngun
  • Comorian: Maore Comorian: roho class 9/10
  • Coptic: ⲯⲩⲭⲏ m or f (psukhē)
  • Cornish: enev m, ena f
  • Czech: duše (cs) f
  • Dalmatian: jamna f
  • Danish: sjæl (da) c
  • Dutch: ziel (nl) f, geest (nl) m Old Dutch: sēla f
  • Elfdalian: själ f
  • Erzya: ойме (ojme)
  • Esperanto: animo (eo)
  • Estonian: hing (et)
  • Farefare: sɩa
  • Faroese: sál f
  • Finnish: sielu (fi), henki (fi)
  • French: âme (fr) f Old French: ame
  • Frisian: North Frisian: Siil c (Sylt) Saterland Frisian: Seele f West Frisian: siel (fy) c, siele (fy) c
  • Friulian: anime f ànime f
  • Gagauz: can
  • Galician: alma (gl) f, ánima (gl) f
  • Georgian: სული (ka) (suli)
  • German: Seele (de) f Old High German: ferah
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌰 f (saiwala)
  • Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí) Ancient Greek: ψυχή f (psukhḗ)
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: alma
  • Gujarati: આત્મા (gu) (ātmā)
  • Hawaiian: ʻuhane
  • Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה (he) f (neshamá), נֶפֶשׁ (he) f (néfesh), (biblical) רוּחַ (he) m or f (rúakh)
  • Hindi: आत्मा (hi) f (ātmā), रूह (hi) f (rūh), नफ़्स m (nafs), नफ्स (hi) m (naphs)
  • Hungarian: lélek (hu), önvaló (hu)
  • Icelandic: sál (is) f
  • Ido: anmo (io)
  • Ilocano: kararua
  • Indonesian: ruh (id)
  • Ingrian: henki
  • Interlingua: anima
  • Irish: anam (ga) m Old Irish: ainimm f
  • Istriot: anema f
  • Italian: anima (it) f
  • Japanese: 魂 (ja) (たましい, tamashii), 霊 (ja) (れい, rei, たま, tama), 魂魄 (ja) (こんぱく, konpaku)
  • Kabardian: псэ (kbd) (psɛ)
  • Kalmyk: седкл (sedkl)
  • Kannada: ಆತ್ಮ (kn) (ātma)
  • Kapampangan: kaladua
  • Kashubian: dësza f
  • Kazakh: жан (kk) (jan), рух (rux), діл (kk) (dıl)
  • Khmer: ព្រលឹង (prɔlɨng), វិញ្ញាណ (km) (vɨññiən)
  • Komi: Komi-Zyrian: лов (lov)
  • Korean: 영혼(靈魂) (ko) (yeonghon), 령혼(靈魂) (ryeonghon) (North Korea), 혼백(魂魄) (ko) (honbaek), 넋 (ko) (neok), 얼 (ko) (eol)
  • Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rih (ku)
  • Kyrgyz: жан (ky) (jan), рух (ky) (ruh), дил (ky) (dil)
  • Ladino: alma f
  • Lakota: naǧí
  • Lao: ວິນຍານ (win nyān)
  • Latgalian: dvēsele
  • Latin: anima (la) f, animus (la) m
  • Latvian: dvēsele (lv) f, velis (lv) m
  • Lezgi: руьгь (rüh)
  • Lingala: molimo
  • Lithuanian: siela (lt) f
  • Luxembourgish: Séil (lb) f
  • Macedonian: душа (mk) f (duša)
  • Malay: roh (ms), jiwa (ms), nyawa (ms)
  • Malayalam: ആത്മാവ് (ml) (ātmāvŭ)
  • Maltese: ruħ m
  • Manchu: ᡶᠠᠶᠠᠩᡤᠠ (fayangga)
  • Mansi: Northern Mansi: (please verify) ис (is)
  • Manx: annym m
  • Māori: wairua
  • Marathi: आत्मा (ātmā)
  • Mari: Eastern Mari: чон (čon), ӧрт (ört) Western Mari: йӓнг (jäng)
  • Mazanderani: جان
  • Middle English: soule
  • Moksha: вайме (vajme)
  • Mongo: elimo
  • Mongolian: Cyrillic: сүнс (mn) (süns) Mongolian script: ᠰᠦ᠋ᠨ᠋ᠡᠰᠦ (sünesü)
  • Naga: Khiamniungan Naga: ūotshōu
  • Navajo: iiʼ sizíinii
  • Nepali: आत्मा (ne) (ātmā)
  • Nogai: ян (yan)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: sjel (no) m or f Nynorsk: sjel f
  • Nǀuu: ǀʻumsi
  • Occitan: arma (oc) f, anma (oc) f
  • Odia: ଆତ୍ମା (ātmā)
  • Ojibwe: ojichaag
  • Okinawan: まぶい (mabui), 魂 (たましー, tamashī) (of the dead)
  • Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: доуша f (duša)
  • Old East Slavic: душа f (duša)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: alma
  • Old Norse: sál f
  • Old Prussian: dūsi f
  • Old Saxon: sēola f, gēst m
  • Ossetian: уд (ud)
  • Pali: viññāṇa
  • Pannonian Rusyn: душа f (duša)
  • Pashto: روح (ps) f (roh), نفس (ps) m (nafs)
  • Persian: Iranian Persian: روح (fa) (ruh), رَوان (ravân), جان (fa) (jân), نَفْس (nafs)
  • Polish: dusza (pl) f
  • Portuguese: alma (pt) f
  • Quechua: aya, nuna (qu)
  • Romanian: suflet (ro) n
  • Romansh: olma f
  • Russian: душа́ (ru) f (dušá)
  • Saanich: SELI
  • Sami: Northern Sami: heagga
  • Sanskrit: आत्मन् (sa) m (ātmán), त्मन् (sa) m (tmán), विज्ञान (sa) n (vijñāna)
  • Sardinian: ànima f
  • Scottish Gaelic: anam m
  • Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ду́ша f Latin: dúša (sh) f
  • Shan: ၶႂၼ်ငဝ်း (khwǎn ngáo), ဝိၺၢၼ်ႇ (wǐ nyàan)
  • Sindhi: Arabic: رُوحُ m (rūḥu) Devanagari: रूहु m
  • Sinhalese: ආත්මය (si) (ātmaya)
  • Slovak: duša f
  • Slovene: duša (sl) f
  • Somali: naf (so)
  • Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: duša f Upper Sorbian: duša f
  • Spanish: alma (es) f, pneuma f
  • Sranan Tongo: kra
  • Swahili: roho (sw), nafsi (sw) class 9/10
  • Swedish: själ (sv)
  • Tabasaran: рюгь (rjuh), жан (žan)
  • Tagalog: kalag, kaluluwa (tl)
  • Tajik: рӯҳ (rüh), ҷон (jon), дил (tg) (dil), нафс (nafs)
  • Tamil: ஆன்மா (ta) (āṉmā)
  • Tatar: рух (tt) (rux), өрәк (tt) (öräk), кот (tt) (qot), җан (tt) (can)
  • Tausug: nyawa
  • Telugu: ఆత్మ (te) (ātma)
  • Thai: วิญญาณ (th) (win-yaan)
  • Tibetan: རྣམ་ཤེས (rnam shes)
  • Tocharian A: āñcäm
  • Tocharian B: āñme
  • Turkish: ruh (tr), can (tr), tin (tr) Ottoman Turkish: روح (ruh)
  • Turkmen: ruh, jan (tk)
  • Tuvan: сүнезин (sünezin)
  • Udmurt: лул (lul)
  • Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎔𐎌 (npš)
  • Ukrainian: душа́ (uk) f (dušá)
  • Unami: lënapeokàn
  • Urdu: رُوح f (rūh), آتْما (ur) f (ātmā), نَفْس m (nafs)
  • Uyghur: روھ (roh), دىل (dil)
  • Uzbek: ruh (uz), jon (uz), dil (uz), nafs (uz)
  • Venetan: ànema (vec) f
  • Veps: heng
  • Vietnamese: linh hồn (vi) (靈魂)
  • Volapük: lan (vo)
  • Võro: henǵ
  • Votic: entši
  • Walloon: åme (wa) f
  • Welsh: enaid (cy) m, ysbryd (cy) m
  • Yaghnobi: ҷон (jon)
  • Yakut: сүр (sür)
  • Yámana: kašpíx
  • Yiddish: נשמה f (neshome), נעשאָמע f (neshome)
  • Yonaguni: 魂 (たまち, tamachi)
  • Zhuang: hoenz
  • Zulu: umoya (zu) class 3
  • ǃXóõ: ǃnáã-sé
life, energy, vigour
  • Bulgarian: дух (bg) m (duh)
  • Catalan: ànima (ca) f
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 心靈 / 心灵 (zh) (xīnlíng), 魂 (zh) (hún)
  • Danish: gejst c
  • Dutch: ziel (nl) f
  • Esperanto: animo (eo)
  • Finnish: sielu (fi), henki (fi)
  • French: âme (fr) f
  • Georgian: გული (guli)
  • German: Geist (de) m
  • Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí)
  • Hebrew: רוח חיים f (ruakh khayím), נְשָׁמָה (he) f (n'shamá)
  • Indonesian: nyawa (id)
  • Japanese: 魂 (ja) (たましい, tamashii), 精神 (ja) (せいしん, seishin)
  • Korean: 넋 (ko) (neok), 정신(精神) (ko) (jeongsin)
  • Latin: animus (la) m
  • Latvian: dvēsele (lv) f
  • Malay: semangat (ms)
  • Māori: tino (mi)
  • Mari: Eastern Mari: ӧрт (ört)
  • Middle English: soule
  • Oromo: lubbuu
  • Polish: życie (pl) n
  • Portuguese: ânimo (pt) m
  • Romanian: spirit (ro) n
  • Russian: душа́ (ru) f (dušá), дух (ru) m (dux)
  • Sundanese: manah
  • Swedish: själ (sv)
  • Tagalog: diwa (tl)
  • Ukrainian: дух m (dux)
  • Walloon: åme (wa) f
  • Welsh: ysbryd (cy) m
soul music
  • Bulgarian: со́ул f (sóul)
  • Czech: soul (cs) m
  • Danish: soul c, soulmusik c
  • Dutch: soul (nl) f
  • Esperanto: soulo
  • Finnish: soul (fi)
  • French: soul (fr) f
  • German: Soul (de)
  • Greek: σόουλ f (sóoul)
  • Hebrew: נְשָׁמָה (he) f (n'shamá)
  • Italian: soul (it)
  • Japanese: ソウル (ja) (souru)
  • Korean: 소울 (soul)
  • Latin: animus (la) m
  • Māori: puoro kōmanawa
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: soul m
  • Polish: soul (pl) m
  • Portuguese: soul (pt) m
  • Russian: со́ул (ru) m (sóul)
  • Slovak: soul m
  • Swedish: soul (sv)
  • Ukrainian: со́ул m (sóul)
person, especially as one among many
  • Bashkir: кеше (keşe), бәндә (bəndə), инсан (insan)
  • Comorian: Ngazidja Comorian: nafusi class 9/10
  • Danish: sjæl (da) c
  • Finnish: sielu (fi)
  • French: âme (fr) f
  • German: Seele (de) f
  • Greek: ψυχή (el) f (psychí)
  • Hebrew: נֶפֶשׁ (he) f (néfesh), נפש חיה f (néfesh hayá)
  • Hindi: जीवन (hi) (jīvan), जान (hi) f (jān)
  • Indonesian: insan (id), jiwa (id)
  • Ingrian: henki
  • Italian: anima (it), persona (it)
  • Latin: animus (la) m
  • Middle English: soule
  • Polish: osoba (pl) f
  • Portuguese: alma (pt) f
  • Romanian: suflet (ro) n
  • Sanskrit: प्राणी (sa) (prāṇī), सात्मप्राणी (sātmaprāṇī)
  • Swedish: själ (sv)
  • Telugu: నూటికి ఒక్కడు (nūṭiki okkaḍu)
  • Walloon: åme (wa) f
  • Yiddish: נפֿש n (nefesh)
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  • Estonian: (please verify) hing (et)
  • Lithuanian: (please verify) siela (lt) f
  • Spanish: (please verify) ánimo (es) m
  • Woiwurrung: (please verify) murup, (please verify) narrun

Verb

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soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul or mind. Synonyms: besoul, ensoul
  2. To beg on All Soul's Day. Coordinate term: trick-or-treat
    • 1981, Geoffrey Scard, Squire and tenant: life in rural Cheshire, 1760-1900, page 93:All Souls' Day was celebrated by souling, a custom going back to pre-Reformation days: soul cakers and mummers toured the village begging for a soul cake — a plain, round, flat cake seasoned with spices.
Derived terms
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  • besoul
  • dark night of the soul

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

Verb

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soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

  1. (obsolete) To feed or nourish.[1]
    • 1741, unknown [formerly attributed to Daniel Defoe], The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, the British Amazon, commonly called Mother Ross: […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for R[ichard] Montagu, →OCLC, part II, page 76:During my Stay here, I was going to take Pot-Luck with Colonel Ingram, and accidentally meeting him in the Way, I told him I deſigned to ſoul a Plate with him, [...]

References

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  1. ^ “soul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “soul”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “soul”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

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  • Luso-, luso-

Czech

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Noun

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soul m inan

  1. soul (music style)

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • “soul”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Finnish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsou̯l/, [ˈs̠o̞u̯l]
  • Rhymes: -oul
  • Syllabification(key): soul
  • Hyphenation(key): soul

Noun

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soul

  1. soul music

Declension

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Inflection of soul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative soul —
genitive soulin —
partitive soulia —
illative souliin —
singular plural
nominative soul —
accusative nom. soul —
gen. soulin
genitive soulin —
partitive soulia —
inessive soulissa —
elative soulista —
illative souliin —
adessive soulilla —
ablative soulilta —
allative soulille —
essive soulina —
translative souliksi —
abessive soulitta —
instructive — —
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of soul (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative soulini —
accusative nom. soulini —
gen. soulini
genitive soulini —
partitive souliani —
inessive soulissani —
elative soulistani —
illative souliini —
adessive soulillani —
ablative souliltani —
allative soulilleni —
essive soulinani —
translative soulikseni —
abessive soulittani —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative soulisi —
accusative nom. soulisi —
gen. soulisi
genitive soulisi —
partitive souliasi —
inessive soulissasi —
elative soulistasi —
illative souliisi —
adessive soulillasi —
ablative souliltasi —
allative soulillesi —
essive soulinasi —
translative souliksesi —
abessive soulittasi —
instructive — —
comitative — —
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative soulimme —
accusative nom. soulimme —
gen. soulimme
genitive soulimme —
partitive souliamme —
inessive soulissamme —
elative soulistamme —
illative souliimme —
adessive soulillamme —
ablative souliltamme —
allative soulillemme —
essive soulinamme —
translative souliksemme —
abessive soulittamme —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative soulinne —
accusative nom. soulinne —
gen. soulinne
genitive soulinne —
partitive soulianne —
inessive soulissanne —
elative soulistanne —
illative souliinne —
adessive soulillanne —
ablative souliltanne —
allative soulillenne —
essive soulinanne —
translative souliksenne —
abessive soulittanne —
instructive — —
comitative — —
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative soulinsa —
accusative nom. soulinsa —
gen. soulinsa
genitive soulinsa —
partitive souliaansouliansa —
inessive soulissaansoulissansa —
elative soulistaansoulistansa —
illative souliinsa —
adessive soulillaansoulillansa —
ablative souliltaansouliltansa —
allative soulilleensoulillensa —
essive soulinaansoulinansa —
translative soulikseensouliksensa —
abessive soulittaansoulittansa —
instructive — —
comitative — —

Derived terms

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  • soul-musiikki

Further reading

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  • “soul”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

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  • Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos

Franco-Provençal

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Adjective

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soul (Piemontais)

  1. alternative form of sol (“alone”)

References

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  • soul in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

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Etymology 1

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See saoul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /su/
  • Homophones: sou, souls, sous

Adjective

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soul (feminine soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

  1. post-1990 spelling of soûl, itself an alternative form of saoul (“drunk”)
Derived terms
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  • souler

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sol/, /sul/

Noun

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soul f (uncountable)

  1. soul, soul music

Further reading

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

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsoːl] (phonetic respelling: szól)
  • Hyphenation: soul
  • Homophone: szól
  • Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

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soul (usually uncountable, plural soulok)

  1. (music) soul music

Declension

[edit] Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative soul soulok
accusative soult soulokat
dative soulnak souloknak
instrumental soullal soulokkal
causal-final soulért soulokért
translative soullá soulokká
terminative soulig soulokig
essive-formal soulként soulokként
essive-modal — —
inessive soulban soulokban
superessive soulon soulokon
adessive soulnál souloknál
illative soulba soulokba
sublative soulra soulokra
allative soulhoz soulokhoz
elative soulból soulokból
delative soulról soulokról
ablative soultól souloktól
non-attributivepossessive – singular soulé souloké
non-attributivepossessive – plural souléi soulokéi
Possessive forms of soul
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. soulom souljaim
2nd person sing. soulod souljaid
3rd person sing. soulja souljai
1st person plural soulunk souljaink
2nd person plural soulotok souljaitok
3rd person plural souljuk souljaik

Derived terms

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  • soulzene

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsol/, (careful style) /ˈsowl/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ol, (careful style) -owl
  • Hyphenation: (careful style) sóul

Noun

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soul m or f (invariable)

  1. soul music

References

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  1. ^ soul in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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  • suol

Middle English

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Noun

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soul

  1. alternative form of soule

Old French

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Adjective

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soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)

  1. alternative form of sol

Declension

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Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject souls soule soul
oblique soul soule soul
plural subject soul soules soul
oblique souls soules soul

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:soulWikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English soul, from Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔwl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔwl
  • Syllabification: soul

Noun

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soul m inan

  1. soul music

Declension

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singular
nominative soul
genitive soul/soulu
dative soul/soulowi
accusative soul
instrumental soul/soulem
locative soul/soulu
vocative soul/soulu

Derived terms

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  • soulowy

Further reading

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  • soul in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • soul in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsow/ [ˈsoʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsol/ [ˈsoɫ]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsol/ [ˈsoɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈso.li/
  • Homophone: sou (Brazil)

Noun

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soul m (uncountable)

  1. (music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)

Further reading

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  • “soul”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
  • “soul”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soul.

Adjective

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soul m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. soul (music)

Declension

[edit] Declension of soul (invariable)
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-accusative indefinite soul soul soul soul
definite — — — —
genitive-dative indefinite soul soul soul soul
definite — — — —

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsoul/ [ˈsou̯l]
  • Rhymes: -oul
  • Syllabification: soul

Noun

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soul m (uncountable)

  1. soul, soul music

Further reading

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  • “soul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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