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pou

See also: Pou, póu, pòu, põu, pōu, pǒu, and POU

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch pauw.

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Noun

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pou (plural poue, diminutive poutjie)

  1. peacock

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Amanab

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Noun

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pou

  1. a kind of snake

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan pou, from pre-literary */ˈpot͡s/, from Latin puteus. First attested in 1272.[1]

Noun

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pou m (plural pous)

  1. well (a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids)
  2. (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.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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pou

  1. (Balearic, Alghero) first-person singular present indicative of pouar

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  1. ^ “pou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin paucus/-um.

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pou (ORB, broad)

  1. little
    Antonym: prod

Determiner

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pou (ORB, broad)

  1. a little

References

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  • peu in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • pou in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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French

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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pou m (plural poux)

  1. louse; head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis)

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Only seven words in French ending in -ou have their plurals in -oux instead of -ous: bijou, caillou, chou, genou, hibou, joujou, pou.

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Haitian Creole

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From French pour (“for”).

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pou

  1. for
    • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎[3]:
      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

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From French pou (“louse”).

Noun

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pou

  1. louse

Mandarin

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Romanization

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pou

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pōu.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of póu.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǒu.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pòu.

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *bou (“pillar supporting raised floor, roof or ridgepole” – compare with Tahitian pou, Tongan pou, Samoan pou and Fijian pou).[1][2]

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pou

  1. post, stake, pillar
    Synonym: turu
  2. column
  3. support
  4. stalwart

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pou (passive poua)

  1. to erect a post
  2. to prop on (or elevate with) posts or pillars
  3. to establish
  4. to appoint

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Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pou”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 345-6
  • “pou” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mauritian Creole

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Alternative forms

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  • pu

Etymology

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From French pour. Compare Haitian Creole pou.

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Preposition

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pou

  1. for

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pou (medial form pou)

  1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate future tense.
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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French poi.

Adverb

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pou

  1. little (not much, not a lot)

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  • French: peu

Old French

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Adverb

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pou

  1. Alternative form of poi

Pará Arára

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Alternative forms

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  • pougu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

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pou

  1. small peccary

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  • 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

Tulu-Bohuai

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pou

  1. pig

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Yanomamö

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pou (plural pouku)

  1. a little stream, watercourse, arroyo

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  • Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎[4] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN
  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pou”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  2. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 56
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