pis

Abbreviation of English pidgin, Solomon Islands.

pis

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pijin terms

pis

1. plural of pi

• IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PSI, SIP, SPI, iPS, isp, psi, sip

• IPA^(key): [pis]

pis

1. shore, beach

   pis un ota

   sand on the beach

   pis ta san.

   go to the beach.

• Bugaeva, Anna. Handbook of the Ainu Language, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیس (pis, “dirty, filthy, foul”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis/
• Rhymes: -is

pis (feminine pise)

1. (colloquial) dirty, filthy

   Synonym: i pistë

pis m (plural pisë)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) filth, mess

pis

1. dirty (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Antonym: pastër

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 1487

Probably from archaic Persian پیس (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”),^[1] whence also Turkish pis (“filthy”), and Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”).

• IPA^(key): [pis]

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pis (comparative daha pis, superlative ən pis)

1. bad

   Synonym: yaman

   Vəziyyətimiz çox pisdir. ― Our situation is very bad.

2. naughty, dirty

   Gecə yatmamışdan əvvəl pis-pis kinolara baxıblar yəqin. ― They must have been watching some naughty movies before they went to sleep

• yaxşı

• pislik (“misdoing, evil, harm”)
• pisləmək (“to condemn”)
• pisləşmək (“to get worse, to deteriorate”)

• → Lezgi: пис (pis)

Deverbal from pisar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpis]

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pis m (plural pisos)

1. floor (storey)
2. flat (apartment)
3. (castells) each of the levels of a castell

• “pis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

pis

1. (vulgar) piss
2. (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

pis

1. dammit

• satans

• IPA^(key): /pɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

pis m (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) piss
2. (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

• Negerhollands: pische

pis

1. inflection of pissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /pi/

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• Homophones: pi, pie, pies

Inherited from Old French pis, peis, from Latin peius, from peior. Compare pire.

pis

2. worse

• pire

Inherited from Old French piz, peiz (“chest, udder”), inherited from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”). The word underwent a semantic shift beginning in Old French and was gradually replaced by poitrine in the sense of “chest”.

pis m (plural pis)

2. udder

• poitrine

Syncope of puis.

• pi

pis

1. (North America, colloquial) and, besides
   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 78:

     Je suis habituée, protesta-t-elle. Pis j'ai pas besoin d'un père pour me faire la morale.

     ‘I'm used to it,’ she protested. ‘And I don't need a father to lecture me.’

• “pis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• psi, spi

From Portuguese peixe. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pexi.

pis

1. fish

Borrowed from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).

• IPA^(key): /pʲɪʃ/

pis f (genitive singular pise, nominative plural piseanna)

1. pea

pis

1. third-person singular future of pisti
2. third-person plural future of pisti

pis

1. alternative form of pisse

pis m pl

1. plural of pi

From Latin pēnsus.

• IPA^(key): /piːs/

pīs

1. heavy, weighty

• pīsian
• pīslīċ
• pīslīċe

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “pīs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Onomatopoeic.

pis

1. call used for cats

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis/ [ˈpis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: pis

pis m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) pee, wee

   Synonym: orina

• “pis”, 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

From English fish.

pis

1. fish
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:21:

     Orait God i mekim kamap ol traipela pis na snek bilong solwara, na ol arapela kain samting bilong solwara, na ol kain kain pisin.

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Probably from Persian پیس (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic),^[1] whence also Azerbaijani pis (“bad, dirty”), Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”) and Armenian փիս (pʻis).

• IPA^(key): /pis/

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pis

1. dirty

   Synonym: kirli

From Proto-Italic *kʷis. Cognates with Latin quis, Oscan 𐌐𐌉𐌔 (pis), Faliscan 𐌐𐌉𐌔 (pis), Paelignian pid, South Picene pid, Umbrian 𐌐𐌉𐌔𐌉 (pisi), and Marrucinian pis.

pis (nominative singular)

1. somebody

• sepis

• 2022, Blanca María Prósper, “The Tabula Veliterna: a sacred law from Central Italy”, in Rivista Italiana di Linguistica e dialettologia‎^[2], number XXIV (quotation in English; overall work in English), pages 13-14:
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN