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Definitions and meaning of po

po

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pəʊ/
Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

po (plural pos)

(obsolete) A peacock. [8th–19th c.]

Etymology 2

A diminutive of pot.

Noun

po (plural pos)

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:chamber pot

Derived terms

Descendants

Yoruba: póò

Etymology 3

Clipping of police.

Noun

po pl (plural only)

(slang) The police.

Alternative forms

Related terms

Anagrams

OP, Op., op, op.

Akan

Pronunciation

Tone: LL

Verb

to bully
po mo - to bully you

References

Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎^[4], Basel, page 381

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *apā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é (“then, at that time”). Compare German ob (“if, whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), English if. According to Brian D. Joseph, it is a difficult word with unclear root. Hamp claims origin from Proto-Indo-European *pest (“so”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Particle

yes
Used with the present and imperfect tense of a verb to show a continuous action.
It corresponds to the English "be + gerund" formation.

References

Amondawa

Verb

do (make, work, perform)

References

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

Asaro'o

Alternative forms

fo (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur)

Noun

water

Balkan Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Macedonian по- (po-) or dialectal Serbo-Croatian.

Particle

-er, more; forms comparative adjectives and adverbs.
follows the definite article to form the superlative

References

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpoʔ/, [ˈpoʔ]

Particle

pò (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓ)

(formal, polite) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
Synonym: tabi

Borôro

Noun

Synonym of pobo (“water”)

References

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

Chickasaw

Pronoun

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

Verb

(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: [5]
  fb kwong⁴ pou¹ soeng^3-2, pang⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sau⁶ soeng¹ [Jyutping]
  post too many images on Facebook and you might damage your [relationships with] friends

Noun

(Internet slang) an Internet post, thread, topic, etc

Derived terms

Cornish

Etymology 1

According to an Gerlyver Meur, either an unstressed form of py (“which”) or provected form of the present-future subjunctive of bos (“to be”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Conjunction

Etymology 2

Contraction of pa (“when”) and the present-future subjunctive of bos (“to be”).

Pronunciation

(RLC) IPA^(key): /poː/

Contraction

(Revived Late Cornish) Contraction of pa vo (“when ... is”).

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpo]

Etymology 1

Noun

po n

Abbreviation of pondělí (“Monday”).

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Old Czech po, from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.

Preposition

po [+locative]

after

Preposition

po [+accusative]

(space, time, scales, lists) up to, for
(dimension) all through

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from French pot.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /poː/
Rhymes: -oː

Noun

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

chamber pot

Descendants

→ Papiamentu: pò

Anagrams

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [po]
Audio:
Hyphenation: po

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian по (po) and Polish po.

Preposition

A grammatical particle used with quantity words to indicate rate or a distributive quantity: each, apiece, at, @
Antonym: -ope

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

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

The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from earlier *pulvus n, from Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Portuguese pó. Doublet of polvo, which was borrowed from Spanish polvo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː]

Noun

po m (plural pos)

dust
powder

Derived terms

poalla
poeira

References

“poo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“poo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“po” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“po” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“po” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /po/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po.

Cognate with Old Tupi pó.

Noun

po (plural pokuéra)

hand

Numeral

five

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *por, from Proto-Tupian *pot.

Cognate with Old Tupi por.

Verb

jump

Conjugation

(che) apo
(nde) repo
(ha'e) opo
(ñande) japo
(ore) ropo
(peẽ) pepo
(ha'ekuéra) opo

References

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology 1

From Portuguese pau. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pó.

Noun

tree
stick

Etymology 2

From Portuguese pó. Cognate with Kabuverdianu puera.

Noun

dust

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French peau (“skin”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /po/

Noun

(anatomy) skin

Hausa

Etymology

Probably from French pot.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pôː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [pôː]

Noun

pô m (possessed form pôn)

children's toilet

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto po, Russian по (po).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /po/

Preposition

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

Imonda

Noun

water

Japanese

Romanization

Rōmaji transcription of ぽ
Rōmaji transcription of ポ

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pa (“after, by”); compare Latvian pa, 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 (a-p /apa/, “away”), Latin ab (“from”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of”). See pa-, pó- for more.

Preposition

põ

under, beneath (movement, position) [+instrumental]
(with instrumental or genitive case) beside, near, along (movement, position)
(with instrumental or dative case) expresses the direction of movement
after, following a certain time period, event; after the disappearance or loss of [+genitive]
expresses gradual progression; one after another [+genitive]
until, up to a certain time [+dative]
around, throughout the whole of [+accusative]
used to express division into equal parts [+accusative]
(with genitive, instrumental or dative case) expresses the manner of an action

Related terms

apačia
pa-, po-

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

Superseded spelling of pó.

Mandarin

Romanization

po (po⁵／po⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄛ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 桲

Nonstandard spelling of pō.
Nonstandard spelling of pó.
Nonstandard spelling of pǒ.
Nonstandard spelling of pò.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Masurian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ]
Syllabification: po

Preposition

denotes a manner with an adjective [+dative]
denotes a surface or area along which something moves; along [+locative]
debites the purpose of ritually visiting many people or undertaking some frequently repeated actions or efforts generally related to acquiring, obtaining something or participating in something [+locative]
denotes people or places that someone visits, areas or environments in which something takes place, something occurs or areas that someone travels or places involved in a specific activity [+locative]
after (later in time or sequence) [+locative]
denotes number of objects used, number of people taking part, duration, amount, amount of times, or price
denotes a side on which something is; on [+locative]
denotes a container that was used for something [+locative]
denotes a temporal or spatial limit; along [+accusative]
denotes a source from which someone received something, i.e. inheritence; from [+locative]
denotes basis for someone's actions based on, according to [+locative]
with a cardinal number; of all [+accusative]
denotes the source of an effect; after; from [+locative]
denotes period at which something occurs; at, during [+locative]
denotes dominating conditions [+locative]
denotes basis of analysis; based on [+locative]
denotes source of emotions; from [+locative]
done for [+locative]

Middle English

Alternative forms

pa, paa, paue, pe, poo, poue

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː/, /ˈpau̯(ə)/, /ˈpɛː/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː/

Noun

po (plural poos)

peacock

Derived terms

pecok

Descendants

English: pea, po (archaic)

References

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

Mokilese

Noun

shelf

Nupe

Etymology

Cognate to Gbiri-Niragu pobo.

Verb

to burn, to roast

References

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

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈpo/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈpo/

Preposition

for (for the purpose of) [+accusative] or [+locative]
until; after [+accusative]
for the entire, all [+accusative]
during, in the period of [+accusative], [+genitive], or [+locative]
for the Xth time [+accusative]
per, a piece [+accusative] or [+locative]
after; because of [+dative] or [+locative]
up to; towards [+dative]
to behind [+dative]
according to [+dative] or [+locative]
in the manner of [+dative]
for (to what end) [+dative] (of a success or failure)
Creates adverbs in conjunction with an adjective. [+dative]
Denotes repeated action. [+dative]
on top of; on [+locative]
Denotes general area as scene of action; around, about; along [+locative]
with, by way of [+locative]
behind [+locative]
after [+locative]
carried out by [+locative]
in the absence of [+locative]
through, by means of [+locative]
as to, with regard to [+locative]
Denotes maximum amount; up to [+locative]
Denotes price of something. [+locative]
more than [+locative]
for, for the benefit of [+locative]

Descendants

Czech: po

References

Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “po”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /pɔ/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /pɔ/

Preposition

denotes sequence in time; after [+locative]
Synonym: pod
denotes general location; at, in, on [+locative] or [+dative]
(more specifically) along [+locative]
denotes previous related person; after [+locative]
denotes next in a sequence of people; after [+locative]
denotes cause; after; because of [+locative]
according to, in accordance with [+locative]
denotes an instrument to an acction; with, by means of [+locative]
according to, based on [+locative]
denotes manner of the object; like, as [+locative]
denotes distribution; per [+locative] or [+dative]
used in grammatical government. [+locative]
it indicates a spatial limit; up to [+accusative]
denotes a time when something takes place; during [+accusative] or [+dative]
denotes the aim or purpose of an action; for [+accusative]
creates an adverb from the next noun. [+accusative]
with an ordinal number; denotes which time in a sequence; for the _ time [+accusative]
Synonym: za
denotes the source or agent of an action. [+dative]
denotes the distribution of the counted items. [+dative] or [+accusative] or [+locative]

Derived terms

Descendants

Masurian: po
Polish: po
Silesian: po

References

B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “po”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Paraguayan Guaraní

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /po/

Etymology 1

Shortened form of japo.

Noun

hand

Etymology 2

From po (“five fingers”).

Numeral

five

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Verb

to jump

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ/
(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ/
Rhymes: -ɔ
Syllabification: po

Preposition

after (later in time or sequence) [+locative]
after (in pursuit of) [+accusative]
around, about [+locative]
past [+locative]
on [+locative]
for indicates that a container was previously used for something [+locative]
from [+locative]
after (in allusion to), for [+locative]
done for (doomed) [+locative]
for (in order to obtain) [+accusative]
up to, as far as [+accusative]
in, for, at denotes a quantity of something [+accusative]
according to, in the way of, a la, as [+dative]
in (the language of) [+dative]

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Conjunction

like
when

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), po is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 282 times in scientific texts, 293 times in news, 195 times in essays, 552 times in fiction, and 406 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1728 times, making it the 24th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Rapa Nui

Noun

night

Samoan

Noun

night

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pro.

Preposition

(Campidanese) for

Senggi

Noun

water

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

pȏl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pôː/

Adverb

pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)

(Bosnia, Serbia) half

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pô/

Preposition

pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)

for [+accusative]
over, through, across, in, on [+locative]
by, with, through (using an intermediary or medium) [+locative]
by, according to [+locative]
after [+locative]
during [+locative]
in miscellaneous senses in various phrasal constructs [+locative]

Etymology 3

Particle

po (Cyrillic spelling по)

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

References

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

Silesian

Alternative forms

pō (before nasals)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ/
Rhymes: -ɔ
Syllabification: po

Preposition

denotes general location about, around; along [+locative]
Synonym: na

Antonyms: nad, pod
after [+locative]
Antonym: przed
denotes point in space on [+locative]
Synonym: z
dith certain verbs of speaking; denotes recipient of a message. [+locative]
Synonym: na
denotes maximum amount; up to [+accusative] or [+locative]
Synonym: z
dreates an adverb from an adjective. [+dative] (archaic dative ending in -u)
denotes aim of an action; for [+locative]
for indicates that a container was previously used for something [+locative]
denotes characteristic by which one might recognize something; from [+locative]
denotes absence of something or something; after [+accusative]
denotes possessor. [+locative]

Related terms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Preposition

around, about [+locative]
along, through (the length of) [+locative]
according to
in the manner of [+accusative]
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Spanish

Etymology

From pues.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpo/ [ˈpo]
Rhymes: -o
Syllabification: po

Interjection

(colloquial, Chile) emphatic
Synonym: pues

Usage notes

Always used at the end of a sentence.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-po

present stem of -wapo (“to be (at a definite place)”)
tupo ― we are (there)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puəq. Compare Malay empu, Indonesian empu, Old Javanese mpu. Also possibly from clipping of poon (“lord”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpoʔ/, [ˈpoʔ]

Particle

pô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
Synonym: (familiar) ho

Usage notes

In standard Tagalog, the word po is more formal and polite than ho. In other dialects, this is not observed and has no difference.

Derived terms

Related terms

Tapachultec

Etymology

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

Noun

moon

Usage notes

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

References

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.

Tewa

Noun

póː (high tone)

moon

Noun

pòː (low tone)

water

Noun

pǒː (gliding tone)

trail, road

References

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")

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?] (whence also Tocharian A puk). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

entire, whole

Determiner

each, every, all

Inflection

(masc. nom. pl.): poñc

Derived terms

olyapo (“more, rather than”) (olya + po)

Umotína

Noun

water

References

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

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin post (“behind”).

Preposition

behind
Antonym: fo

Waris

Noun

water

References

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

Western Yugur

Etymology

Relate to Shor по, Khakas пу (pu) Tofa бо, Tuvan бо (bo), Karaim бу , Krymchak бу, Southern Altai бу (bu), Kyrgyz бул (bul), etc.

Pronoun

this

White Hmong

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɒ˧/

Noun

spleen

References

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

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k͡pò/

Verb

pò

(transitive) to mix, to stir
(transitive) to beat, to whisk
(transitive) to knead
(transitive) to make warm drinks, baby food, or medicine.

Usage notes

po when followed by a direct object.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k͡pó/

Verb

pó

to be too small

Source: wiktionary.org

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po

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

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Descendants

Etymology 3

Noun

Alternative forms

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Anagrams

Akan

Pronunciation

Verb

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Albanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Particle

References

Amondawa

Verb

References

Asaro'o

Alternative forms

Noun

Further reading

Balkan Romani

Etymology

Particle

References

Bikol Central

Etymology

Pronunciation

Particle

Borôro

Noun

References

Chickasaw

Pronoun

Chinese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Verb

Noun

Derived terms

Cornish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Conjunction

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Contraction

Czech

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Etymology 2

Preposition

Preposition

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Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

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