pos

pos

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sayula Popoluca.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sayula Popoluca terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒz/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɔz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑz/

• Audio (US):

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pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)

1. (UK, slang) Clipping of positive.

   I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

2. Alternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).
3. Clipping of possessive.

• pos pron

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊz/

pos

1. plural of po

• sop, ops, Ops, SPO, OPS+, -spo, OPS, PSO, OPs, SOP, S.O.P.

• pues (formal, literary)
• pus (Western Asturias)
• pes (Eastern Asturias)
• puös (Cabrales)

Inherited from Old Leonese pos from Vulgar Latin *pos, from Latin post.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: pos

pos

1. so, then

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pos”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “pos”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

From Middle Dutch posch, from Old Dutch *posc, of unknown descent. Compare West Frisian poask.

• IPA^(key): /pɔs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

pos f (plural possen, diminutive posje n)

1. ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua)

pois, pões (eastern)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔs/ [ˈpɔs̺]
• Rhymes: -ɔs

pos

1. plural of po

pos

1. second-person singular present indicative of poñer

pos

1. second-person singular present indicative of pór

• “pos”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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pos

1. singular imperative of posen

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pʊs/

pos

1. mail
2. post, station

Borrowed from Latin post (with the t dropped so not to interfere with posto (“postal service, post, mail”)), Russian после (posle).

• IPA^(key): /pos/, /pɔs/

pos

1. after

   Ni drinkis kelka biri pos la ludo.

   We had a few beers after the game.

• posa (“after”)
• pose (“then, afterwards”)
• depos (“since, afterward”)
  • depose (“since, from that time”)
• pos-

From Dutch post (“post”), from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, posto, from Latin postus, from positus. Cognate to Malay pos.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpɔs]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: pos

pos (plural pos-pos)

1. mail
2. post, station
3. (colloquial) meeting place
4. (accounting) budget

• “pos”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From English post. Cognate to Indonesian pos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpos]

pos (Jawi spelling ڤوس, plural pos-pos)

1. mail

   Synonym: (uncommon, only in compounds) mel

2. post (assigned station or appointed position in an organization)

• “pos”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• Hyphenation: pos

Contraction of para os.

pos

1. (colloquial) masculine plural of po; nonstandard form of pros

See pôs.

pos

1. obsolete spelling of pôs

• IPA^(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: pos

Modification of pues.

pos

1. (colloquial) synonym of pues

From Latin post (“after, behind”).

pos

1. (archaic) after, behind

pos m (uncountable)

1. only used in en pos de (“in pursuit of”)

• “pos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “pos”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pь̀sъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔs/
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Hyphenation: pos
• Syllabification: pos

pos m animal

1. (zoology) dog

   Synonym: psyk

• “pos” in Soblex

pos

1. after, behind

From Proto-Hmong *-boᴮ (“thorn”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˩/

pos

1. thorn

• 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)