pousar

• IPA^(key): /pou̯ˈsaɾ/ [pou̯ˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pou‧sar

pousar

1. (Western Asturias) alternative form of posar

• apousar

From Old Galician-Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Cognate of pausar, a borrowed doublet.

Compare Portuguese pousar and Spanish posar.

• IPA^(key): /powˈsaɾ/

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. (intransitive) to land, alight
2. (transitive) to place
3. (intransitive) to lodge, stay, overnight
   • 1275, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 259:

     este Johan Arias foynos pousar enun nosso lugar, que chaman Santome de Sumeo, cum omes e cum armas e filounolo forçadamente e sen dereyto e e morou y un mes e tomounolo e filounos quanto y achou

     this Xoán Arias came to stay in a hamlet of us, called Santomé de Sumeo, with men and weapons, and he took it from us forcibly and lawlessly, and he dwelt there for a month and he took and had everything he found there

4. (intransitive) to stop

   Pousa, fedello! ― Stop it, brat!

5. (transitive) to unload

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pousar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pousar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pousar”, 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), “pousar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pousar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pousar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin pausāre.

• IPA^(key): /pou̯ˈzaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

pousar

1. to place
2. to lodge, stay, overnight

• Galician: pousar
• Portuguese: pousar, poisar

• Universo Cantigas - "pousar"

• poisar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Doublet of pausar and posar. Compare Galician pousar and Spanish posar. Its fourth sense may be a Spanish influence from posar.

• Hyphenation: pou‧sar

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. to put down, lay down
2. to place
   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     Bruno retirou-se com a carta. Pombinha pousou os cotovelos na mesa e tulipou as mãos contra o rosto, a cismar nos homens.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to land, alight
4. (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) to sleep over

   Pousei no Pedro ontem e nós acabamos ficando. ― I slept over at Peter's last night and we ended up making out.

• “pousar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pousar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025