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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pəʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]po (plural pos)
Etymology 2
[edit]A diminutive of pot.
Noun
[edit]po (plural pos)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot. [from 19th c.]
- 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, edited by Frederic Spotts, 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, published 2016, page 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.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Yoruba: póò
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]po pl (plural only)
- (slang) The police.
- 2008, Megan T. White, Rounding the Finish Line, Baltimore, M.D.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 209:
- "Basically it's a celebration of all the gearheads in the area," Rob told him. "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides. Enjoy this lot while we have it."
- 2009, Debra Webb, Secrets in Four Corners, Toronto, Ont. […]: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 155:
- "'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.
- 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 89:
- Now, one of the rules I had—this is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudes—when it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down. We left. I would just leave. I would give them they space and let them go.
Alternative forms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Akan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Tone: LL[1]
Verb
[edit]po
- to bully
- po mo - to bully you
References
[edit]- ^ Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
- Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)[3], Basel, page 381
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”)[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]po
- 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
[edit]- ^ Joseph, B. D. the puzzle of albanian po. 2011
Amondawa
[edit]Verb
[edit]po
- do (make, work, perform)
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- fo (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur)
Noun
[edit]po
Further reading
[edit]- John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 50
Balkan Romani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Macedonian по- (po-) or dialectal Serbo-Croatian.[1]
Particle
[edit]po
- -er, more; forms comparative adjectives and adverbs.[1][2][3][4][5]
- follows the definite article to form the superlative[4][5]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “po(-)²”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 219ab
- ^ Ronald Lee (2005) “Lesson eighteen”, in Learn Romani: Das-dúma Rromanes, reprint edition, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, published 2017, →ISBN, page 269
- ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “po¹”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 279a
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anna-Maria Meyer (2020) “The Impact of Slavic Languages on Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, , →ISBN, pages 277-278
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 96-97
Bikol Central
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]pò (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓ)
- (formal, polite) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
- Synonym: tabi
- Dagos po kamo.
- Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.
- Ma, maduman po ako sa simbahan.
- Mom, I am going to church.
Borôro
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
- Synonym of pobo (“water”)
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]po
Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄡ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pou
- Wade–Giles: pʻou1
- Yale: pōu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pou
- Palladius: поу (pou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰoʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄛ
- Tongyong Pinyin: po
- Wade–Giles: pʻo1
- Yale: pwō
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: po
- Palladius: по (po)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: pou1
- Yale: pōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: pou1
- Guangdong Romanization: pou1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
[edit]po
Noun
[edit]po
Derived terms
[edit]Cornish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]po
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction of pa (“when”) and the present-future subjunctive of bos (“to be”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): /poː/
Contraction
[edit]po
- (Revived Late Cornish) Contraction of pa vo (“when ... is”).
- po'chy ha dha wreg pries
- when you and your wife are married
- po margh ledrys
- when a horse is stolen
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]po n
- Abbreviation of pondělí (“Monday”).
Declension
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Czech po, from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.
Preposition
[edit]po [with locative]
Preposition
[edit]po [with accusative]
- (space, time, scales, lists) up to, for
- (dimension) all through
Further reading
[edit]- “po”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “po”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “po”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]po m (plural po's, diminutive pootje n)
Descendants
[edit]- → Papiamentu: pò
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Russian по (po) and Polish po.
Preposition
[edit]po
- A grammatical particle used with quantity words to indicate rate or a distributive quantity: each, apiece, at, @
- Antonym: -ope
- 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 (apiece) from each tribe.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]po (accusative singular po-on, plural po-oj, accusative plural po-ojn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.
See also
[edit]- (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
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]po m (plural pos)
- dust
- 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Dominguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:
- et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan
- and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain
- powder
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:
- E Nota que o poo dos collos das abroteas ual mays que todos llos outros, et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias
- Take note that the powder of the rhizomes of the asphodels has more value than all the rest, and that these powders should be used in places that are nervous and entangled with veins and arteries
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “poo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “poo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “po”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “po”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “po”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Guaraní
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po.[1]
Noun
[edit]po (plural pokuéra)
Numeral
[edit]po
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *por, from Proto-Tupian *pot.[2]
Verb
[edit]po
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 566–567
- ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas[2] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
Guinea-Bissau Creole
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Portuguese pau. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pó.
Noun
[edit]po
Etymology 2
[edit]From Portuguese pó. Cognate with Kabuverdianu puera.
Noun
[edit]po
Haitian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
Hausa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pô m (possessed form pôn)
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Esperanto po, Russian по (po).
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- 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.
Imonda
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
Further reading
[edit]- 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."
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]po
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).[1] Other 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
[edit]põ
- under, beneath (movement, position) [with 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 [with genitive]
- expresses gradual progression; one after another [with genitive]
- until, up to a certain time [with dative]
- around, throughout the whole of [with accusative]
- used to express division into equal parts [with accusative]
- (with genitive, instrumental or dative case) expresses the manner of an action
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “po”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 368-9
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
Mandarin
[edit]Romanization
[edit]- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 桲
po
- Nonstandard spelling of pō.
- Nonstandard spelling of pó.
- Nonstandard spelling of pǒ.
- Nonstandard spelling of pò.
Usage notes
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- denotes a manner with an adjective [with dative]
- denotes a surface or area along which something moves; along [with 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 [with 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 [with locative]
- after (later in time or sequence) [with 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 [with locative]
- denotes a container that was used for something [with locative]
- denotes a temporal or spatial limit; along [with accusative]
- denotes a source from which someone received something, i.e. inheritence; from [with locative]
- denotes basis for someone's actions based on, according to [with locative]
- with a cardinal number; of all [with accusative]
- denotes the source of an effect; after; from [with locative]
- denotes period at which something occurs; at, during [with locative]
- denotes dominating conditions [with locative]
- denotes basis of analysis; based on [with locative]
- denotes source of emotions; from [with locative]
- done for [with locative]
Further reading
[edit]- Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “po”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 6, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 119
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English pāwa, pēa, from Proto-Germanic *pāwô, from Latin pāvō. Influenced by the first element of Old Norse páfugl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]po (plural poos)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “pō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.
Mokilese
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
Nupe
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate to Gbiri-Niragu pobo.
Verb
[edit]po
References
[edit]- R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages
- Samuel Crowther, A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Nupe Language (1864)
Old Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- for (for the purpose of) [with accusative or locative]
- until; after [with accusative]
- for the entire, all [with accusative]
- during, in the period of [with accusative or genitive or locative]
- for the Xth time [with accusative]
- per, a piece [with accusative or locative]
- after; because of [with dative or locative]
- up to; towards [with dative]
- to behind [with dative]
- according to [with dative or locative]
- in the manner of [with dative]
- for (to what end) [with dative] (of a success or failure)
- creates adverbs in conjunction with an adjective. [with dative]
- denotes repeated action. [with dative]
- on top of; on [with locative]
- denotes general area as scene of action; around, about; along [with locative]
- with, by way of [with locative]
- behind [with locative]
- after [with locative]
- carried out by [with locative]
- in the absence of [with locative]
- through, by means of [with locative]
- as to, with regard to [with locative]
- denotes maximum amount; up to [with locative]
- denotes price of something. [with locative]
- more than [with locative]
- for, for the benefit of [with locative]
Descendants
[edit]- Czech: po
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- denotes sequence in time; after [with locative]
- Synonym: pod
- denotes general location; at, in, on [with locative or dative]
- (more specifically) along [with locative]
- denotes previous related person; after [with locative]
- denotes next in a sequence of people; after [with locative]
- denotes cause; after; because of [with locative]
- according to, in accordance with [with locative]
- denotes an instrument to an acction; with, by means of [with locative]
- according to, based on [with locative]
- denotes manner of the object; like, as [with locative]
- denotes distribution; per [with locative or dative]
- used in grammatical government; [with locative]
- it indicates a spatial limit; up to [with accusative]
- denotes a time when something takes place; during [with accusative or dative]
- denotes the aim or purpose of an action; for [with accusative]
- creates an adverb from the next noun; [with accusative]
- with an ordinal number; denotes which time in a sequence; for the _ time [with accusative]
- Synonym: za
- denotes the source or agent of an action; [with dative]
- denotes the distribution of the counted items; [with dative or accusative or locative]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “po”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Paraguayan Guaraní
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Shortened form of japo.
Noun
[edit]po
Etymology 2
[edit]From po (“five fingers”).
Numeral
[edit]po
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]po
- to jump
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish po.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɔ/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈpɔ/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) Audio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ
- Syllabification: po
Preposition
[edit]po
- after (later in time or sequence) [with locative]
- W piątki po pracy często chodzimy do pubu. ― On Fridays after work we often go to the pub.
- Cały dzień czyta książkę po książce o polityce. ― All day long he reads book after book about politics.
- after (in pursuit of) [with accusative]
- Jadą po nas! Zmykajcie! ― They're coming after us! Scram!
- around, about [with locative]
- Mój brat spędził miesiąc podróżując po Polsce. ― My brother spent a month travelling around Poland.
- past [with locative]
- Wykłady zaczynają się o kwadrans po ósmej. ― Lectures begin at quarter past eight.
- on [with locative]
- Kobiety siedzą po prawej stronie, a mężczyźni po lewej. ― Women sit on the right hand, and men on the left.
- for indicates that a container was previously used for something [with locative]
- Co zrobić ze słoikiem po dżemie? ― What can I do with an empty jam jar?
- from [with locative]
- Tę całą biżuterię odziedziczyłam po matce. ― I inherited all this jewellery from my mother.
- Od razu rozpoznałem go po grzmiącym głosie. ― I instantly recognised him from the booming voice.
- after (in allusion to), for [with locative]
- Nazwaliśmy naszego syna po zmarłym wujku. ― We named our son after his late uncle.
- done for (doomed) [with locative]
- Jest już po tobie, brachu. ― You're done for, bro.
- for (in order to obtain) [with accusative]
- Musimy pójść do sklepu po mleko. ― We have to go to the shop for milk.
- up to, as far as [with accusative]
- Woda w piwnicy była po kolana. ― The water in the cellar was up to our knees.
- in, for, at denotes a quantity of something [with accusative]
- Mam trzy zgrzewki po sześć puszek, czyli osiemnaście puszek. ― I have three multipacks of six cans, i.e. eighteen cans.
- Kupiłem te bilety po 20 złotych, a oferuję je po 10. ― I bought these tickets for 20 złoty each, but I'm offering them for 10.
- according to, in the way of, a la, as [with dative]
- Jego ulubioną potrawą jest karkówka po cygańsku. ― His favourite dish is gypsy pork.
- Lubię ją, ale tylko po przyjacielsku. ― I like her, but only as a friend.
- in (the language of) [with dative]
- Świetnie mówisz po polsku jak na cudzoziemca. ― You speak great Polish for a foreigner.
- Nie umiem pisać po chińsku. ― I don't know how to write in Chinese.
Usage notes
[edit]- 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
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]po
Trivia
[edit]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.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- po in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- po in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “po”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 274
Rapa Nui
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
Samoan
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
Sardinian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
Senggi
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 113
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From pol, from Proto-Slavic *polъ. See po-.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)
- (Bosnia, Serbia) half
- sat i po ― hour and a half
- četiri i po ― four thirty
- čov(j)ek i po ― an excellent man
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)
- for [with accusative]
- 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
- over, through, across, in, on [with locative]
- 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
- by, with, through (using an intermediary or medium) [with locative]
- Poslao sam mu paket po zajedničkom prijatelju. ― I've sent him a package via a mutual friend.
- po zraku/vodi ― by air/water
- by, according to [with locative]
- 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
- after [with locative]
- po svršetku sukoba ― after (the end of) the conflict
- during [with locative]
- po kiši/suncu ― in the rain/sun
- po danu ― during the day
- in miscellaneous senses in various phrasal constructs [with locative]
- 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
Etymology 3
[edit]Particle
[edit]po (Cyrillic spelling по)
- (+ 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.
References
[edit]Silesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pō (before nasals)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- denotes general location about, around; along [with locative]
- after [with locative]
- Antonym: przed
- denotes point in space on [with locative]
- Synonym: z
- dith certain verbs of speaking; denotes recipient of a message. [with locative]
- Synonym: na
- denotes maximum amount; up to [with accusative or locative]
- Synonym: z
- dreates an adverb from an adjective. [with dative] (archaic dative ending in -u)
- denotes aim of an action; for [with locative]
- for indicates that a container was previously used for something [with locative]
- denotes characteristic by which one might recognize something; from [with locative]
- denotes absence of something or something; after [with accusative]
- denotes possessor. [with locative]
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- po in silling.org
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
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Further reading
[edit]- “po”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *po.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]po
- around, about [with locative]
- along, through (the length of) [with locative]
- according to
- in the manner of [with accusative]
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pues.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]po
- (colloquial, Chile) emphatic
- Synonym: pues
- ¡Si po! ― Yes, of course!
- ¡Ya, po! ― Come on!
Usage notes
[edit]- Always used at the end of a sentence.
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-po
See also
[edit]- -po: verbal affix
- -wako (“to be (at an indefinite place)”)
- -wamo (“to be inside (of a definite place)”)
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puəq. Compare Malay empu, Indonesian empu, Old Javanese mpu. Also possibly from clipping of poon (“lord”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpoʔ/ [ˈpoʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: po
Particle
[edit]pô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)
- marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
Usage notes
[edit]- The word does not appear at a beginning of a sentence unless used alone.
- In standard Tagalog, the word po is more formal and polite than ho. In other dialects, this is not observed and has no difference.
- Old dictionaries indicate that puko was used by women before while po was used by men.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “po”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[5] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.[6] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 139
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pueq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Tapachultec
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Lehmann considers the possibility of a connection to Zoque words for "white" (poopo).
Noun
[edit]po
Usage notes
[edit]- This is the form Lehmann says is given in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists; the form given in Johnston's vocabulary is poot.
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]póː (high tone)
Noun
[edit]pòː (low tone)
Noun
[edit]pǒː (gliding tone)
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]po
Determiner
[edit]po
Inflection
[edit]- (masc. nom. pl.): poñc
Derived terms
[edit]Umotína
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin post (“behind”).
Preposition
[edit]po
See also
[edit]Waris
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
References
[edit]- Bob Brown, Waris grammar sketch, 1990 (2012), page 29
Western Yugur
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]po
White Hmong
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]po
References
[edit]- John Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community →ISBN, 2007)
Yoruba
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pò
- (transitive) to mix, to stir
- Má pò ó pọ̀ síbẹ̀. ― Don't mix it together yet.
- (transitive) to beat, to whisk
- Bá mi po ẹyin. ― Help me beat the eggs.
- (transitive) to knead
- (transitive) to make warm drinks, baby food, or medicine.
- A gbọ́dọ̀ lo omi gbígbóná nígbà tí a bá fẹ́ po tíì. ― We must use hot water when we want to make tea.
Usage notes
[edit]- po when followed by a direct object.
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]pó
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