pos
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɒz/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /pɔz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɑz/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective edit
pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)
- (UK, slang) Clipping of positive.
- I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.
- (slang) Clipping of HIV positive.
- Clipping of possessive.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəʊz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /poʊz/
Noun edit
pos
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Galician edit
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Iban edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
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Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin post (with the t dropped so not to interfere with posto (“postal service, post, mail”)), Russian после (posle).
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Preposition edit
pos
- after
- Ni drinkis kelka biri pos la ludo.
- We had a few beers after the game.
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch post (“post”), from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, posto, from Latin postus, from positus. Cognate to Malay pos.
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Noun edit
pos (plural pos-pos, first-person possessive posku, second-person possessive posmu, third-person possessive posnya)
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Further reading edit
- “pos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From English post. Cognate to Indonesian pos.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pos (Jawi spelling ڤوس, plural pos-pos, informal 1st possessive posku, 2nd possessive posmu, 3rd possessive posnya)
- mail
- Synonym: (uncommon, only in compounds) mel
- post (assigned station or appointed position in an organization)
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Further reading edit
- “pos” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Conjunction edit
pos
- (Latin America) Alternative spelling of pues
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Noun edit
pos m (uncountable)
- Only used in en pos de (“in pursuit of”)
Further reading edit
- “pos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Upper Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Noun edit
pos m animal
Further reading edit
- “pos” in Soblex
Volapük edit
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White Hmong edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Hmong *-boᴮ (“thorn”).[1]
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References edit
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 233.
- Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 280.