egal

• egall

From Middle English egal, from Old French egal, igal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of equal and aequalis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəl/
• Homophones: eagle, Eagle

egal (comparative more egal, superlative most egal)

1. (obsolete) Equal; impartial.

   Synonyms: equal, equitable, indifferent; see also Thesaurus:impartial

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Whose souls do bear an egal yoke of love,

• Gael, Gale, Lega, gale, geal, lage, leag

Borrowed from French égal.

• Rhymes: -aːl

egal (neuter egalt, plural and definite singular attributive egale)

1. Uniform or smooth/even; regular or straight

• egalisere
• egalitet
• uegal

• “egal” in Den Danske Ordbog

egal

1. (Erzgebirgisch) always

   Synonym: eitl

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

17th century, from French égal.

• IPA^(key): /eˈɡaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

egal (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. (usually predicative only) all the same, unimportant

   Synonyms: gleichgültig, gleich

   Das ist mir egal. ― That's all the same to me.

   Es könnte mir gar nicht egaler sein. ― I couldn't care less.

2. (dated, still used by some older speakers) the same, identical, alike, matching

   Synonyms: derselbe, gleich, identisch

   Das sind zwei egale Hemden. ― These are two identical shirts.

Indeclinable, predicative-only.

egal

1. no matter

   Egal, was du sagst: ich bleibe dabei.

   No matter what you say: my opinion won't change.

egal

1. expresses indifference

   "Willst du zuerst ins Kino oder ins Café gehen?" "Egal."

   "Do you want to go to the cinema or the cafe first? " "I don't mind."

• wumpe (colloquial, dialectal)

• scheißegal

From French égal (“equal”).

• IPA^(key): /eɡal/

egal

1. equal

• egall, egalle

From Old French egal, igal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of equal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːɡaːl/, /ɛˈɡaːl/

egal

1. equal, equivalent
2. proportionate; sufficient, adequate, fit, fitting
3. impartial, just, fair

• English: egal (obsolete)

• “ē̆gāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Latin aequālis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French egal.

egal

1. the same; equal

• Occitan: egal

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aequalis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 212

Borrowed from French égal, from Latin aequālis.

• IPA^(key): /eˈɡal/

egal m or n (feminine singular egală, masculine plural egali, feminine and neuter plural egale)

1. equal, even

• egalitate
• egaliza

egal

1. equally, evenly

egal m (plural egali, feminine equivalent egală)

1. an equal, a match

Borrowed from French égal, from Latin aequālis.^[1]

ègāl, egȃl (Cyrillic spelling ѐга̄л, ега̑л)

1. (regional, indeclinable) equal, same

   Synonym: jednak

   Sad smo egal

   Now we are equal, even steven

ègāl, egȃl (Cyrillic spelling ѐга̄л, ега̑л)

1. (regional) equally, same

   Synonym: jednako

egal (not comparable)

1. unimportant, not mattering

   Det är egalt vilken vi väljer

   It doesn't matter which one we choose

   Det är mig egalt

   It's not important to me / I don't care

• kvitta
• spela roll

• egal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• egal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• egal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)