pou

From Dutch pauw.

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pou (plural poue, diminutive poutjie)

1. peacock

• gompou

pou

1. a kind of snake

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

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• Rhymes: -ow

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

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.

• traspuar

pou

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

• “pou”, 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
• “pou” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin paucus/-um.

pou (ORB, broad)

1. little

   Antonym: prod

pou (ORB, broad)

1. a little

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

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[2] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1007: “un peu” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “paucus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 51

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).

• IPA^(key): /pu/

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• Homophones: poux, pouls
• Rhymes: -u

pou m (plural poux)

1. louse; head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis)

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

• chercher des poux
• être dans les poux de bois
• laid comme un pou
• pouilleux

• lente f

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

• IPA^(key): /pu/

From French pour (“for”).

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."

From French pou (“louse”).

pou

1. louse

pou

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

• 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.

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

pou

1. post, stake, pillar

   Synonym: turu

2. column
3. support
4. stalwart

pou (passive poua)

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

• poupou

• 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.

• pu

From French pour. Compare Haitian Creole pou.

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pou

1. for

pou (medial form pou)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate future tense.

• ti pou

From Old French poi.

pou

1. little (not much, not a lot)

• French: peu

pou

1. alternative form of poi

• pougu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

pou

1. small peccary

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

pou

1. pig

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

pou (plural pouku)

1. a little stream, watercourse, arroyo

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[4] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN