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po

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of po in English

English Online Dictionary. What means po‎? What does po mean?

English

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

Etymology 4

From Hokkien 薄 (po̍h / po̍k, “weak”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

(Singapore) IPA^(key): [p˭o]

Adjective

po (not comparable)

(Singapore, colloquial, used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) Thinner; with more water added to dilute it.

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)‎^[5], Basel, page 381

Albanian

Etymology

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: [6]
  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

(Revived Late Cornish) 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 [with locative]

after

Preposition

po [with 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/
Rhymes: -o
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

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

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

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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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

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
Me kompris la domo po quaradek mil euri. ― I bought the house for forty thousand euros.

Imonda

Noun

water

Japanese

Romanization

The hiragana syllable ぽ (po) or the katakana syllable ポ (po) in Hepburn romanization.

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”). 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

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
eik põ dešinei ― go to the right
after, following a certain time period, event; after the disappearance or loss of [with genitive]
expresses gradual progression; one after another [with genitive]
mẽtai põ mẽtų ― year after year
until, up to a certain time [with dative]
Teñ jiẽ gyvẽna ir̃ põ šiái diẽnai ― they live there until this day
around, throughout the whole of [with accusative]
keliáuti põ Europą ― travel around Europe
used to express division into equal parts [with accusative]
vaikai̇̃ gãvo põ gãbalą sū́rio ― the kids got a piece of cheese each

põ truputį ― little by little
(with genitive, instrumental or dative case) expresses the manner of an action

Related terms

apačia
pa-, po-

References

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.

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) [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

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. 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 [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

Descendants

Polish: po
Silesian: po

References

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

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

Rhymes: -ɔ
Syllabification: po

Preposition

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

In the dative, adjectives (formed from nouns) that end in -cki, -dzki, -ski for the lemma take the archaic suffixes -cku, -dzku, -sku instead of the usual -ckiemu, -dzkiemu, -skiemu when used with this preposition; therefore, po łucku, po grodzku, po kowalsku, but po cywilnemu, po macoszemu, po staremu.

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
sat i po ― hour and a half

četiri i po ― four thirty

čov(j)ek i po ― an excellent man

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pô/

Preposition

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

Particle

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

“po”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
“po”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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 [with locative]
Synonym: na

Antonyms: nad, pod
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

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pɔ]

Preposition

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *po.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Preposition

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

Etymology

From pues.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

(Andalusia) emphatic, well
Synonym: pues

Po yo pensaba que no. ― Well, I didn't think so.

Po sí ― Yes.
(colloquial, Chile) emphatic
Synonym: pues

¡Sí po! ― Yes, of course!

¡Ya, po! ― Come on!

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

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʔ/ [ˈpoʔ]
Rhymes: -oʔ
Syllabification: po

Particle

pô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
Synonyms: (familiar) ho, (dialectal, emphatic) puko

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

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

Usage notes

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

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
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

po when followed by a direct object.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k͡pó/

Verb

pó

to be too small
awó dára lẹ́yẹ, ṣùgbọ́n orí pó o ― The guinea fowl is a beautiful bird, but it has a very small head

po

po

English

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Noun

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Noun

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Akan

Pronunciation

Verb

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Albanian

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Particle

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Amondawa

Verb

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Asaro'o

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Noun

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Balkan Romani

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Particle

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Bikol Central

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Particle

Borôro

Noun

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Chickasaw

Pronoun

Chinese

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Cornish

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Czech

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Etymology 1

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Declension

Etymology 2

Preposition

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Dutch

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