English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

English - Etymology 1

From Old English pāwa, from West Germanic, from Latin pāvo. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau.

Noun

Wikipedia

po (plural pos)

1. (obsolete) A peacock.

English - Etymology 2

From French pot.

Noun

po (plural pos)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
   • 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8, 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.

English - Anagrams

• op, op., OP

Albanian - Etymology

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.

Albanian - Participle

po

1. yes

Albanian - Conjunction

po

1. if, but

Synonyms

• por

Chickasaw - Pronoun

po

1. our

Cornish - Conjunction

po

1. or

Czech - Preposition

po + locative

1. after

Dutch - Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oː

Dutch - Noun

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

1. chamber pot

Dutch - Anagrams

• op

Esperanto - Preposition

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.

Antonyms

• -ope

Derived terms

• po-
• poa

Esperanto - Noun

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

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

See also

• (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 ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

Galician - Noun

po m (plural pos)

1. dust
2. powder

Guaraní - Numeral

po

1. five

Guaraní - Noun

po

1. hand

Guaraní - Verb

po

1. to jump

Haitian Creole - Etymology

From French peau (“skin”).

Haitian Creole - Noun

po

1. (anatomy) skin

Hausa - Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pô

Hausa - Noun

po m

1. children's potty (toilet for children)

Japanese - Romanization

po

1. rōmaji reading of ぽ
2. rōmaji reading of ポ

Lithuanian - Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂po. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic по (po), Old Prussian pa-, po-, Mycenaean Greek

Lithuanian - Preposition

po

1. under (+ instrumental)
2. after (+ genitive)

Lojban - Cmavo

po

1. belonging to or being uniquely associated with

Usage notes

• Contrary to pe, the association has to be unique to the object.

Related terms

• pe
• po'e

Lower Sorbian - Preposition

po

1. obsolete spelling of pó

Mandarin - Romanization

po

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Polish - Etymology

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

Polish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

Polish - Preposition

po

1. with nouns in locative case:
   1. after
   2. along
   3. on, over
   4. at, by, next to
   5. round
2. with nouns in accusative case:
   1. for, after, to take care of
   2. up to
3. with adjectives in dative case:
   1. according to, in the way of
   2. in the language of

Usage notes

Dative case adjectives ending in -ski take the archaic suffix -sku instead of -skiemu when used with this preposition.

Polish - Conjunction

po

1. like
2. when

Polish - External Links

• “po” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rapa Nui - Noun

po

1. night

Serbo-Croatian - Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• pȏl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôː/

Adverb

pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)

1. half

   sat i po ― hour and a half

   četiri i po ― four thirty

   čov(j)ek i po ― an excellent man

Serbo-Croatian - Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pô/

Preposition

pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)

1. (with accusative) 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. (with locative) 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. (with locative) by, with (using an intermediary)

   poslao sam mu paket po zajedničkom prijatelju ― I've sent him a package with a common friend

4. (with locative) by, according to

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

   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

   po zraku/vodi ― by air/water

   po zapov(ij)edi ― by order

   svirati po sluhu ― to play by the ear

   suditi po vanjštini ― to judge by appearance

5. (with locative) after

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

6. (with locative) during

   po kiši/suncu ― in the rain/sun

   po danu ― during the day

7. (with locative) 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

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

   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

Serbo-Croatian - Etymology 3

Particle

po (Cyrillic spelling по)

1. (with accusative or nominative) denoting distribution and succession

   popili smo svi po čašicu rakije ― we all drank a glass of rakija

   korak po korak ― step by step

   jedan po jedan ― one by one

   malo po malo ― little by little

   svi smo dobili po jabuku ― each of us received an apple

Serbo-Croatian - References

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

Slovene - Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *po.

Slovene - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/
• Tonal orthography: po

Slovene - Preposition

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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Spanish - Etymology

From pues

Spanish - Interjection

po

1. (colloquial, Chile) emphatical

   ¡Si po!

   Yes, of course!

   ¡Ya, po!

   Come on!

Synonyms

• pues

Usage notes

Always used at the end of a the sentence.

Tagalog - Interjection

po

1. Added within a sentence to show respect to the recipient of the message.

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

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

Volapük - Etymology

Borrowing from Latin post (“behind”).

Volapük - Preposition

po

1. behind

Antonyms

• fo

Volapük - See Also

• po-

White Hmong - Noun

po

1. spleen

White Hmong - References

• John Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community (ISBN 0824830954, 2007)

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