pou
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
pou (plural poue, diminutive poutjie)
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Amanab edit
Noun edit
pou
- a kind of snake
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Catalan pou, from pre-literary */ˈpot͡s/, from Latin puteus. First attested in 1272.[1]
Noun edit
pou m (plural pous)
- well (a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids)
- (figurative) well (a source of supply)
- 2020 August 11, Mònica Planas Callol, “Secrets i prejudicis a l’americana [American-style secrets and prejudices]”, in Ara[1]:
- La sèrie provoca una angoixa creixent en l’espectador per la tendència dels personatges a amagar les seves ferides en comptes de guarir-les, i això es converteix en un pou de malentesos i conflictes que es van acumulant.
- The show causes a growing anxiety in the viewer because of the characters' tendency to hide their wounds instead of healing them, and that becomes a well of misunderstandings and conflicts that build up over time.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
pou
References edit
- ^ “pou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “pou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pou” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French pouil, peouil, püil, from Late Latin peduclus < peduculus, variant of Latin pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-European *pezd-. The singular is a back-formation from the plural (see also genou with the same development).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pou m (plural poux)
Usage notes edit
Only seven words in French ending in -ou have their plurals in -oux instead of -ous: bijou, caillou, chou, genou, hibou, joujou, pou.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- lente f
Further reading edit
- “pou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Preposition edit
pou
- for
- 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik[2]:
- Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”
- American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."
Etymology 2 edit
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pou
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
pou
- Nonstandard spelling of pōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of póu.
- Nonstandard spelling of pǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of pòu.
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.
Maori edit
Noun edit
pou
Mauritian Creole edit
Alternative forms edit
- pu
Etymology edit
From French pour. Compare Haitian Creole pou.
Pronunciation edit
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pou
Verb edit
pou (medial form pou)
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate future tense.
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Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French poi.
Adverb edit
pou
- little (not much, not a lot)
Descendants edit
- French: peu
Old French edit
Adverb edit
pou
- Alternative form of poi
Pará Arára edit
Alternative forms edit
- pougu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)
Noun edit
pou
- small peccary
Further reading edit
- 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.
Tulu-Bohuai edit
Noun edit
pou
Further reading edit
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Yanomamö edit
Noun edit
pou (plural pouku)
- a little stream, watercourse, arroyo
References edit
- Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN