poil

From Latin pilus.

poil m (plural poils)

1. a hair on the body

From an earlier Old French peil, from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-.

• IPA^(key): /pwal/

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poil m (plural poils)

1. hair (on the body)
2. bristle (on a brush)

• cheveu

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

• poli

poil m

1. inflection of pol:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural