foal

/foʊl/

/fəʊl/

Other forms: foals; foaled; foaling

A foal is a baby horse. Most horses give birth to only one foal at a time, though occasionally they have two.

You can use the word foal for a horse that's younger than one year old — after turning one, a foal becomes a yearling. Foals can be either male, also called a colt, or female, also called a filly. When a mare, or adult female horse, has a baby, you can say she foals. The Old English root word, fola, means "foal" or "colt."

Definitions of foal

1. noun

   a young horse
   types:

   filly

   a young female horse under the age of four

   colt

   a young male horse under the age of four

   ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil, ridgling

   a colt with undescended testicles

   type of:

   young mammal

   any immature mammal
2. verb

   give birth to a foal
   “the mare foaled”

   type of:

   bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have

   cause to be born