po

• IPA^(key): /pəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English po (found also in pocock), from Old English pāwa, pēa (“peacock”), from Proto-Germanic *pawô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvo. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau. See also peacock.

po (plural pos)

1. (obsolete) A peacock.

A diminutive of pot.

po (plural pos)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
   • 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67,

     ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.

   • 1989, Leonard Woolf, Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86,

     There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 44:

     Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.

• See Thesaurus:chamber pot

• OP, Op., op, op.

From Proto-Albanian *apā, from Proto-Indo-European *e-, *ē- (“then, at that time”). Compare German ob (“if, whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), English if.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

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po

1. yes
2. Used with the Present and Imperfect tense of a verb to show a continuous action.
   It corresponds to the English "be + gerund" formation.

po

1. if, but

• por

po

1. do (make, work, perform)

• V. da Silva Sinha et al, Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture, in Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition

po

1. water

• fo (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur)

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 50

po

1. Synonym of pobo (“water”)

• Mônica Cidele da Cruz, Povo Umutína : a busca da identidade linguística e cultural [Les Umutína : À la recherche d’une identité linguistique et culturelle], Université Unicamp / Campinas, 2012, page 40

po

1. our

Borrowed from English post.

po

1. (Internet slang) to post

   fb狂po相，朋友易受傷 [Cantonese, trad.]
   fb狂po相，朋友易受伤 [Cantonese, simp.]

   From:

   feis¹ buk¹ kwong⁴ pou¹ soeng¹, pang⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sau⁶ soeng¹ [Jyutping]

   post too many images on Facebook and you might damage your [relationships with] friends

po

1. or

• IPA^(key): [ˈpo]

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po + locative

1. after

Borrowing from French pot.

• IPA^(key): /poː/
• Rhymes: -oː

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po m (plural po's, diminutive pootje n)

1. chamber pot

• op

Borrowed from Russian по (po).

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po

1. A grammatical particle used with quantity words to indicate rate or a distributive quantity: each, apiece, at, @

   Mi kudrados ĉiutage po 10 horoj. — I will sew 10 hours a day.

   Oni povas nokti po 6 frankoj. — You can spend the night for 6 francs (a night).

   La kurso daŭras dum 10 tagoj po 30 minutoj. — The course lasts 10 days at 30 minutes (a day).

   La komitato estas rebalotota ĉiun trian jaron po triono. — A third of the committee is reelected every third year.

   La gastoj trinkis po (unu) glaseton da vino. — The guests each drank one glass of wine.

   Ili ricevis po 5 pomojn. — They received 5 apples apiece.

   Elektu al vi po 3 homojn el ĉiu tribo. — Choose for yourselves 3 people from each tribe.

• -ope

• po-
• poa

po (accusative singular po-on, plural po-oj, accusative plural po-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

From Old Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from *pulvus, from Latin pulvis (“powder; dust”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Portuguese pó, Spanish polvo.

• IPA^(key): [pɔ]

po m (plural pos)

1. dust
2. powder

From Portuguese pau. Cognates with Kabuverdianu pó.

po

1. tree
2. stick

From Portuguese pó. Cognates with Kabuverdianu puera.

po

1. dust

From French peau (“skin”).

po

1. (anatomy) skin

Probably from French pot.

pô m (possessed form pôn)

1. children's toilet

Borrowed from Esperanto po, Russian по (po).

• IPA^(key): /po/

po

1. for, at the price of, in exchange for; per

   Me kompris la domo po quaradek mil euri.

   I bought the house for forty thousand euros.

po

1. water

• Walter Seiler, The Main Structures of Imonda (1984)
• Walter Seiler, Imonda: Papuan Language, page 188: "Another excellent example that illustrates the relational character of -l, is provided by po water. When po is used to refer to general water, rain or creeks it has no -l. When it refers to wound water or coconut water it does end in -l."

po

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぽ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ポ

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *po(ˀ) (“after, by”); compare Latvian pa-, Old Prussian po (“after, by, under”), Proto-Slavic *po (“after, by, at”). From Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away, from”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀢 (a-pu, “from”), Sanskrit अप (ápa, “away, off”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱 (apa, “away”), Latin ab (“from”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of”). See pa-, pó- for more.

põ

1. (with instrumental case) under, beneath (movement, position)
2. (with instrumental or genitive case) beside, near, along (movement, position)
3. (with instrumental or dative case) expresses the direction of movement

   eik põ dešinei - go to the right

4. (with genitive case) after, following a certain time period, event; after the disappearance or loss of
5. (with genitive case) expresses gradual progression; one after another

   mẽtai põ mẽtų - year after year

6. (with dative case) until, up to a certain time

   Teñ jiẽ gyvẽna ir̃ põ šiái diẽnai - they live there until this day

7. (with accusative case) around, throughout the whole of

   keliáuti põ Europą - travel around Europe

8. (with accusative case) used to express division into equal parts

   vaikaĩ gãvo põ gãbalą sū́rio - the kids got a piece of cheese each

   põ truputį - little by little

9. (with genitive, instrumental or dative case) expresses the manner of an action

• apačia
• pa-, po-

po

1. Superseded spelling of pó.

po (Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄛ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 桲

po

1. Nonstandard spelling of pō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pò.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• poo, paue, pa, poue, pe, paa

Inherited from Old English pāwa, pēa, from Proto-Germanic *pāwô, from Latin pāvō. Influenced by the first element of Old Norse páfugl.

• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː/, /ˈpau̯(ə)/, /ˈpɛː/

po (plural poos)

1. peacock

• pecok

• English: pea, po (both archaic)

• “pō (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Cognate to Gbiri-Niragu pobo.

po

1. to burn, to roast

• R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages
• Samuel Crowther, A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Nupe Language (1864)

• IPA^(key): /po/

Shortened form of japo.

po

1. hand.

From po (five fingers)

po

1. five.

(onomatopoeia)

po

1. to jump.

From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

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po

1. (+ locative) after
2. (+ locative) along
3. (+ locative) on, over
4. (+ locative) at, by, next to
5. (+ locative) around
6. (+ accusative) for, after, to take care of
7. (+ accusative) up to
8. (+ dative, only with adjectives) according to, in the way of
9. (+ dative, only with adjectives) in the language of

• Dative adjectives that end in -ski for the lemma take the archaic suffix -sku instead of the usual -skiemu when used with this preposition.

po

1. like
2. when

• po in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• po in Polish dictionaries at PWN

po

1. night

po

1. night

po

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 113

From pol, from Proto-Slavic *polъ. See po-.

• pȏl

• IPA^(key): /pôː/

pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) half

   sat i po ― hour and a half

   četiri i po ― four thirty

   čov(j)ek i po ― an excellent man

From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po.

• IPA^(key): /pô/

pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)

1. (+ accusative case) for

   otići po ml(ij)eko ― to go and get the milk

   po c(ij)eli dan ― all day long

   po šesti put ― for the sixth time

   biti štetan po nekoga/nešto ― to be harmful for sb/sth

   dobro/loše po njega ― good/bad for him

2. (+ locative case) over, through, across, in, on

   udariti po glavi ― to hit on the head

   sn(ij)eg je pao po cesti ― snow fell on the road

   voda se prolila po podu ― water spilled over the floor

   šetati po šumi ― to walk in the woods

3. (+ locative case) by, with, through (using an intermediary or medium)

   Poslao sam mu paket po zajedničkom prijatelju. ― I've sent him a package via a mutual friend.

   po zraku/vodi ― by air/water

4. (+ locative case) by, according to

   sve ide po planu ― everything is going according to the plan

   Amerika je prva država po bogatstvu u sv(ij)etu. ― America is the richest country in the world.

   po glavi stanovnika ― per capita

   živ(j)eti po principima ― to live according to principles

   po mom(e) mišljenju ― in my opinion

   po mom računu ― by my reckoning

   po meni ― in my opinion; as far as I'm concerned

   svirati po sluhu ― to play by ear

   suditi po vanjštini ― to judge by appearance

5. (+ locative case) after

   po svršetku sukoba ― after (the end of) the conflict

6. (+ locative case) during

   po kiši/suncu ― in the rain/sun

   po danu ― during the day

7. (+ locative case) in miscellaneous senses in various phrasal constructs

   razum(ij)e se (samo) po sebi ― it goes without saying

   neka bude po tvome ― let it be your way

   jednak po veličini ― equal in size

   sve je po starom ― everything is/goes in the accustomed/usual manner

   po običaju ― as usual, according to custom

   po vr(ij)ednosti ― in value

   po svoj prilici ― in all likelihood

   po rodu ― by birth

   po naravi/prirodi ― in nature

   po toj c(ij)eni ― at this price

   po paragrafu 13 ― under section 13

   po što po to ― by all means

   po mogućnosti ― if possible

   po redu ― in order, one after another

   po mom ukusu ― (according) to my taste

   po kvaliteti ― by quality

   po tome ― according to this/that, accordingly, consequently, then

   po zakonu ― according to the law, by the law

   po duljini ― lengthwise

po (Cyrillic spelling по)

1. (+ accusative case or nominative case) denoting distribution and succession; by, per, each, apiece

   Popili smo svi po čašicu rakije. ― We all drank a glass of rakija each.

   korak po korak ― step by step

   jedan po jedan ― one by one

   triput po satu ― three times per hour

   Svi smo dobili po jabuku. ― Each of us received an apple.

• “po” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “po” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *po.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

po

1. (with locative) around, about
2. (with locative) along, through (the length of)
3. according to
4. (with accusative) in the manner of
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From pues

po

1. (colloquial, Chile) emphatical

   ¡Si po!

   Yes, of course!

   ¡Ya, po!

   Come on!

Always used at the end of a sentence.

• pues

po

1. definite / specific locative class suffix, definite place indicator

   tupo shule

   we are (there) at the school

• ko: indefinite place indicator
• mo: "inside" of a definite place indicator

Panginoon > P'oon > po

po

1. marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Tuloy po kayo. - Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Pupunta po ako sa simbahan, Inay. - I am going to church, Mother.

Lehmann considers the possibility of a connection to Zoque words for "white" (poopo).

po

1. moon

• This is the form Lehmann says is given in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists; the form given in Johnston's vocabulary is poot.

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

póː (high tone)

1. moon

pòː (low tone)

1. water

pǒː (gliding tone)

1. trail, road

• Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America
• John Peabody Harrington, The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians
• My Life in San Juan Pueblo: Stories of Esther Martinez (uses the spelling pˀoe, and mentions a fourth meaning, "pumpkin, squash")

Compare Tocharian A puk

po

1. each, every
2. entire, whole

• (masc. nom. pl.): poñc

po

1. water

• Mônica Cidele da Cruz, Povo Umutína : a busca da identidade linguística e cultural [Les Umutína : À la recherche d’une identité linguistique et culturelle], Université Unicamp / Campinas, 2012, page 40

Borrowed from Latin post (“behind”).

po

1. behind

• fo

• po-

po

1. water

• Bob Brown, Waris grammar sketch, 1990 (2012), page 29

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˧/

po

1. spleen

• John Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community →ISBN, 2007)