pal

詳細解釋：

pal

n.（名詞）
A friend; a chum.
朋友：朋友；好朋友
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
palled,pal.ling,pals
To associate as friends or chums. Often used witharound.
結為夥伴：結交為好朋友或親密的夥伴。常與around 一起用

來源：
Romany phral, phal ; akin to Sanskrit bhr3t3 [brother] * see bhr3ter-
吉卜賽語 phral, phal ；類似於 梵文 bhr3t3 [兄弟] *參見 bhr3ter-

<注釋>Pal, like buddy and chum, has an informal,thoroughly .American. ring to it.One might think thatpal had been a fixture in the English language forever. In fact,pal is a fairly recent acquisition from a rather exotic source—the language of the Gypsies. First recorded in English in the 7th century,pal was borrowed from Romany, the Indic language of the Gypsies,specifically from a word meaning .brother, comrade,.which occurs asphal in the Romany spoken in England andphral in the Romany spoken in Europe. Gypsies speak an Indic languagebecause 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 Hindustanibh3i, Prakritbh3da or bh3y3, and Sanskrit bhr3t3. All these terms trace their ancestry to the same Indo-European word that our wordbrother does.
Pal 與 buddy 和 chum 一樣， 都有不正式的，完全.美國式.的圈。一個人可能會認為pal 永遠是英國語言中的固定詞。 但實際上，pal 是最近從外來語源——吉普賽語言中獲得的。 最早在7世紀被記錄於英文中，pal 借自吉普賽語， 即吉普賽人說的印度語言，特別是從意為.兄弟，同志.的一個詞而來，它在英格蘭的吉普賽語中寫成phal， 在歐洲所講的吉普賽語中寫成phral 。 因為吉普賽人最初是從伊朗和印度的邊界地區移居到歐洲的，因此他們講一種印度語言，在另一種印度語言裡我們可以找到意為.兄弟.的相關詞，如興都斯坦的bhai， 帕拉克里語的bhada 或 bhaya 以及梵語的 bhrata 。 所有這些詞和我們的詞語brother 一樣都可追溯到相同的印歐詞源