pobo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ̰bɔ/

pobo

1. water

• po

• Pequeno dicionário bororo-português (1997)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpobo/
• Rhymes: -obo
• Hyphenation: po‧bo

pobo (accusative singular pobon, plural poboj, accusative plural pobojn)

1. (nautical) the rear of a boat, stern

   Synonym: poŭpo

• pruo (“prow”)

• steveno

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus. Compare Portuguese povo, Spanish pueblo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔbo/ [ˈpɔ.β̞ʊ], /ˈpobo/ [ˈpo.β̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɔbo, -obo
• Hyphenation: po‧bo

pobo m (plural pobos)

1. people, folk, commoners

   Synonym: xente

   • 1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 98:

     pera proueyto do dito conçello e cabíidoo et de todo o poboo da dita çidade

     for the profit of said council and chapter and of all the people of said city

2. people, nation

   Synonym: nación

   • 2002, Ramón Piñeiro, Da miña acordanza: memorias, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 74:

     É dicir, que no goberno que representaba a legalidade republicana non se recoñecía politicamente a Galicia, a pesar de que o pobo galego aprobara en plebiscito o seu Estatuto de Autonomía.

     That is, the government that represented the republican legality did not politically recognize Galicia, even though the Galician people had approved, in a plebiscite, their Statute of Autonomy [devolution act]

3. town

   Synonym: vila

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “poboo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pobo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pobo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pobo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pobo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Cognate to Nupe po.

pobo

1. to roast (burn or cook)

• R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages

Borrowed from Portuguese povo, from Latin populus, possibly of Etruscan origin.

pobo m (plural pobos)

1. village, town
2. people, nation

Irregularly from Vulgar Latin *plōppus, from classical Latin pōpulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpobo/ [ˈpo.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: po‧bo

pobo m (plural pobos)

1. either of two closely related trees:
   1. a white poplar (Populus alba).
   2. a black poplar (Populus nigra).

• “pobo”, 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