polis

• enPR: pōlĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈpɒ.lɪs/

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).

polis (plural poleis or polises)

1. (historical) A Greek city-state.
   • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, p. 161:

     By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.

From Scots polis.

• pollis

polis (countable and uncountable, plural polises)

1. (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.
2. (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.

• (the police): See Thesaurus:police
• (police officer): See Thesaurus:police officer

• Oxford Dictionaries Online. "polis". 2015.
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

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• IPA^(key): [poˈlis]
• Hyphenation: pol‧is

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polislər)

1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)

   polis idarəsi ― police department

   polis şöbəsi ― police station, police district

   polis əməkdaşı ― police employee

2. police (member of the police force)

From English police, from Middle French police, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía).

polis

1. A police officer; a cop.
2. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)

polis f

1. polis (ancient Greek city-state)

• polis in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• polis in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.lɪs/

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• Hyphenation: po‧lis

From Italian polizza, from Latin apodixa, from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof”), from ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeíknumi, “I prove”).

polis f (plural polissen, diminutive polisje n)

1. insurance policy
2. insurance plan

• verzekeringspolis
• woekerpolis

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis).

polis f (plural poleis)

1. (historical) A polis; an ancient, especially Ancient Greek, city state or city.

polis

1. first-person singular present indicative of polir
2. second-person singular present indicative of polir
3. first-person singular past historic of polir
4. second-person singular past historic of polir
5. second-person singular imperative of polir

polis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of polir

polis

1. masculine plural of poli

• poils

From Dutch polis (“insurance policy”).

• IPA^(key): /polɪs/
• Hyphenation: po‧lis

polis

1. insurance policy

• berpolis

• “polis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

polīs

1. dative plural of polus
2. ablative plural of polus

• polis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• polis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• polis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Ultimately from Polish polak, Russian поля́к (polják) (under the influence of Old High German pōl — cf. German, English Pole — and perhaps also of Latvian dialectal bolis, polis (“ox without horns”)), itself derived from Polish pole (“field”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“light (color), gray”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [pūōlis]

polis m (2nd declension, feminine form: poliete)

1. a Pole, a Polish man, a man born in Poland

   pēc Livonijas kara poļi ieguva Vidzemi un Latgali ― after the Livonian War the Poles obtained Vidzeme and Latgale

2. (genitive plural) Polish; pertaining to Poland and its people

   poļu valoda ― the Polish language

   poļu māksla ― Polish art

• Polija
• polisks
• poļu valoda

From Spanish policía and Portuguese polícia and Dutch politie.

polis

1. police
2. policeman

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolɪs/

From the French police.

polis (countable and uncountable, plural polises)

1. (uncountable) police
   • 1987, Robbie Kydd, ...Auld Zimmery, Mariscat Press 1987:

     'Listen then. Yer name's Andy MacPhail. That's whit us three has jist tellt the polis in wir statements. Okay?'

   • 1991, Dr James Begg, Dipper: 20 – Cops and Robbers, Luath Press 1991:

     ‘Aye, Andra,' cam back the reply. 'We micht as weel caa it a day doun here. The hale bluidy place is hotchin wi polis! Come doun an get us at the Auld Raw.'

   • 2007, Sheena Blackhall, The Quarry, Lochlands 2007:

     Brian hid contactit his granfaither, Pat, tae see gin the polis computers could raik up onythin ava tae makk eese o in persuadin Bappy Anderson tae pairt wi a kidney.

   • 2013, Donal McLaughlin, translating Pedro Lenz, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books 2013, p. 51:

     Coont yirsel lucky ahm naw cawin the polis. Noo fuck off.

polis

1. Polish

polis

1. polish
2. adorn, beautify

• http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ - Dictionary of the Scots Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.lis/

From Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city-state”).

polis f (plural polis)

1. polis

polis m pl or f pl

1. plural of poli

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polis c

1. police (as an organization or as an individual)

• byling
• farbror blå
• snut

• polis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From English police.

polis

1. police

From English polish.

polis

1. polish

Borrowed from French police.

• IPA^(key): /poˈlis/
• Hyphenation: po‧lis

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polisler)

1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)
2. police (member of the police force)

• This term is gender-neutral.

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