Gal
Gal, an alteration of girl, is a casual term for a woman.
Gal may also refer to:
People
Surname
- Bernhard Gál, Austrian composer and artist
- Hans Gál (1890–1987), Austro-British composer
- Jenny Gal, Dutch-Italian judoka
- Paul "Gal" Gallen, Australian rugby league footballer
- Riki Gal, Israeli singer
- Shmuel Gal, Israeli Mathematician
- Udi Gal (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor
- GAL, the pseudonym of Belgian cartoonist Gerard Alsteens (1940)
Given name
- Gal Alberman (born 1983), Israeli football (soccer) player
- Gal Costa, Brazilian Bossa Nova singer
- Gal Fridman (born 1975), windsurfer and first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal
- Gal Mekel (born 1988), Israeli NBA basketball player
- Gal Nevo (born 1987), record-holding Israeli swimmer
- Gal Nir (born 1983), Israeli football (soccer) goalkeeper
- Gal Weinstein (born 1970}, Israeli artist
- Gal Yekutiel (born 1981), Israeli judoka
Places
- Gali (town), aka Gal, a town in Abkhazia
- Gal, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality
- Hal, Azerbaijan, a village
- Gal, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province
- Gal-e Bala, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
- Gal-e Pain, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
Other
- .gal, a top-level Internet domain for Galicia
- Gal (unit), short for Galileo Unit: one centimeter per second squared
- Gall Force, a 1980s Japanese anime
- Gallon
- Galactose, an organic compound
- Gal class submarine of the Israeli Navy
- Gyaru (ギャル gal), a Japanese fashion style for young women
- Kogal, a newer Japanese fashion style for young women, also sometimes referred to as "gal"
- Galeandra, orchid genus
GAL may refer to:
- Galanin, a peptide
- Gazi Anadolu Lisesi, a Turkish high school located at Ankara
- Gatwick Airport Limited
- General Aircraft Limited
- Generalized Automation Language
- Generic array logic
- Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, the standard work on Arabic literature by Carl Brockelmann.
- Get a life (idiom) (in internet slang)
- Global Address List in groupware
- Global administrative law
- Global Aero Logistics
- Google Automotive Link, see Android Auto
- Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport (IATA airport code)
- Great Autonomies and Freedom (Grandi Autonomie e Libertà), a political group in the Senate of Italy
- Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, a Spanish death squad active in the 1980s set up to fight ETA
- Grüne Alternative Liste, various organisations representing the German Green party at state or communal level, the most well-known being the Grün-Alternative Liste in Hamburg
- Guardian ad litem, see legal guardian
See also
- Gál, a Hungarian surname
- Galit (disambiguation)