pau

pau (plural paus)

1. Alternative form of pa (Maori fort)

pau (not comparable)

1. (Hawaii) done; over; finished
   • 1946, Armine Von Tempski, Bright Spurs (page 122)

     I had never known any haoles except Elmer and Marks and they were ice cold affairs. Everyone was always glad when their twice-a-month visit was pau. The very island seemed to sigh with relief […]

   • 2004, Mike Ashman, ‎Kauaʻi Historical Society, Kauai as it was in the 1940s and '50s

     When the county truck was pau hauling rubbish for the day, […]

pau

1. (historical) A unit of capacity used in Brunei, Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak, equivalent to 2 imperial gills (approximately 0.284 litres or 0.6 US pints).

• APU, AUP, PUA, UPA, pua

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw/
• Rhymes: -aw

From a variant of Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin pācem, accusative singular of pāx, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Compare Occitan patz, French paix, Spanish paz.

pau f (plural paus)

1. peace

• fer les paus (“to end a quarrel”)

• pacífic
• pacificar
• pagar

pau m (plural paus)

1. spotted dragonet (a fish of the species Callionymus maculatus)

• aferrapedres m, aferra-roques m

Uncertain origin. Sometimes ascribed to Paul, but also as a phonetic reduction of *paup, alternating form of palp (“the act of feeling”).

pau (feminine pava, masculine plural paus, feminine plural paves)

1. credulous; gullable; rustic

pau m (plural paus)

1. fool; rube

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pao, from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ- (“attach”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaw/, /ˈpaʊ̯/

pau m (plural paus)

1. stick
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:

     [Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte

     And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to came near the wall could not escape the death

   Synonym: vara

2. wood (material)
   • 1457, F. R. Tato Plaza (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua), page 171:

     Tres ballestas: J de aseyro, IJ de pao

     Three crossbows: one of steel, two of wood

   • 1700, Domingo Blanco (ed.),A Poesía popular en Galicia. Vigo: Serais, p. 124:

     Santo San Bras de Viana feito de pau de amieiro

     Saint Saint [sic] Blaise of Viana, carved in alder wood

   Synonyms: fuste, madeira

3. blow

   Synonyms: golpe, pancada

• pau de cego

• “pao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pau” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pau” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pau” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

pau

1. (stative) finished, done
2. (stative) destroyed

pau

1. mango

From Old Portuguese pao, from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Compare Spanish palo, English pole.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʊ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpaw/
• Hyphenation: pau
• Rhymes: -aw

pau m (plural paus)

1. stick
2. wood
3. (slang, vulgar) penis, dick, cock, prick

• paulada
• pau-a-pique
• pau-brasil
• pau-de-arara
• pau-para-toda-obra
• pau-preto

• empalar

• Swahili: pao, pau

From Latin pāgus (“district, province”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /paɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pai̯/

pau f (plural peuoedd)

1. (archaic) land, nation

• gwlad

pau c (plural pauwen, diminutive pauke)

1. peacock