pou

Afrikaans

Etymology

From DutchCategory:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch#POUCategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch#POU pauw.

Pronunciation

Noun

pou (plural poue, diminutive poutjie)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#POUCategory:Afrikaans nouns#POUCategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. peacock

Derived terms

Category:af:Fowls#POU

Amanab

Noun

pouCategory:Amanab lemmas#POUCategory:Amanab nouns#POUCategory:Amanab entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. a kind of snake

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Noun

pou (plural pou dem, quantified pou)Category:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English lemmas#POUCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English nouns#POUCategory:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. chamber pot

Arára (Pará)

Alternative forms

  • pougu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

Noun

pouCategory:Arára (Pará) lemmas#POUCategory:Arára (Pará) nouns#POUCategory:Arára (Pará) entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. small peccary

Further reading

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Category:Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#POU

Inherited from Old CatalanCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan#POUCategory:Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan#POU pou, from pre-literary */ˈpot͡s/, from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#POUCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#POU puteus. First attested in 1272.[1]

Noun

pou m (plural pous)Category:Catalan lemmas#POUCategory:Catalan nouns#POUCategory:Catalan countable nouns#POUCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  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:
      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.
      Category:Catalan terms with quotations#POU
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

pouCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#POUCategory:Catalan verb forms#POUCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. (BalearicCategory:Balearic Catalan#POU, AlgheroCategory:Algherese Catalan#POU) first-person singular present indicative of pouar

References

  1. ↑ “pou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Further reading

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Franco-Provençal terms inherited from Latin#POUCategory:Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin#POU paucus/-um.

Adverb

pouCategory:Franco-Provençal lemmas#POUCategory:Franco-Provençal adverbs#POUCategory:Franco-Provençal entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU (ORB, broadCategory:ORB, broad#POU)

  1. little
    Antonym: prod

Determiner

pouCategory:Franco-Provençal lemmas#POUCategory:Franco-Provençal determiners#POUCategory:Franco-Provençal entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU (ORB, broadCategory:ORB, broad#POU)

  1. a little

References

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

Further information

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#POUCategory:French terms derived from Old French#POU pouil, peouil, püil, from Late LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Late Latin#POUCategory:French terms derived from Late Latin#POU peduclus < peduculus, variant of LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#POUCategory:French terms derived from Latin#POU pēdīculus, from pēdis, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#POU *pezd-. The singular is a back-formation from the plural (see also genou with the same development).

Pronunciation

Noun

pou m (plural poux)Category:French lemmas#POUCategory:French nouns#POUCategory:French countable nouns#POUCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:French masculine nouns#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. louse; head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis)

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: pou

See also

Further reading

Category:fr:Insects#POU Category:French nouns with plural in -oux#POU

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms inherited from French#POCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#PO pour (“for”).

Preposition

pouCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#POCategory:Haitian Creole prepositions#POCategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#POCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. for
    • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎, archived from the original on 28 December 2025:
      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."
      Category:Haitian Creole terms with quotations#PO

Etymology 2

From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms inherited from French#POCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#PO pou (“louse”).

Noun

pouCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#POCategory:Haitian Creole nouns#POCategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#POCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. louse

References

  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 154

Mandarin

Romanization

pouCategory:Hanyu Pinyin#POU0Category:Mandarin non-lemma forms#POU0Category:Mandarin terms with redundant script codes#POU0Category:Mandarin entries with incorrect language header#POU0Category:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. nonstandard spelling of pōuCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#POU0
  2. nonstandard spelling of póuCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#POU0
  3. nonstandard spelling of pǒuCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#POU0
  4. nonstandard spelling of pòuCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#POU0

Usage notes

  • 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.

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-OceanicCategory:Māori terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic#POUCategory:Māori terms derived from Proto-Oceanic#POU *bou (“pillar supporting raised floor, roof or ridgepole” – compare with Tahitian pou, Tongan pou, Samoan pou and Fijian pou).[1][2]

Noun

pouCategory:Māori lemmas#POUCategory:Māori nouns#POUCategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. post, stake, pillar
    Synonym: turu
  2. column
  3. support
  4. stalwart

Verb

pou (passive poua)Category:Māori lemmas#POUCategory:Māori verbs#POUCategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pou”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  2. ↑ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (1998), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎, volume 1: Material Culture, Australian National University, →ISBN, page 56

Further reading

  • 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.

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

  • pu

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Mauritian Creole terms derived from French#POU pour. Compare Haitian Creole pou.

Pronunciation

Preposition

pouCategory:Mauritian Creole lemmas#POUCategory:Mauritian Creole prepositions#POUCategory:Mauritian Creole entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. for

Verb

pou (medial form pou)Category:Mauritian Creole lemmas#POUCategory:Mauritian Creole verbs#POUCategory:Mauritian Creole invariable verbs#POUCategory:Mauritian Creole entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. (auxiliaryCategory:Mauritian Creole auxiliary verbs#POU) Used to indicate future tense.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old FrenchCategory:Middle French terms inherited from Old French#POUCategory:Middle French terms derived from Old French#POU poi.

Adverb

pouCategory:Middle French lemmas#POUCategory:Middle French adverbs#POUCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. little (not much, not a lot)

Descendants

Old French

Adverb

pouCategory:Old French lemmas#POUCategory:Old French adverbs#POUCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. alternative form of poi

Tulu-Bohuai

Noun

pouCategory:Tulu-Bohuai lemmas#POUCategory:Tulu-Bohuai nouns#POUCategory:Tulu-Bohuai entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. pig

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Category:rak:Pigs#POU

Yanomamö

Noun

pou (plural pouku)Category:Yanomamö lemmas#POUCategory:Yanomamö nouns#POUCategory:Yanomamö entries with incorrect language header#POUCategory:Pages with entries#POUCategory:Pages with 15 entries#POU

  1. a little stream, watercourse, arroyo

References

  • Lizot, Jacques (2004), Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN
Category:guu:Geography#POU
Category:Afrikaans lemmas Category:Afrikaans nouns Category:Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch Category:Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch Category:Afrikaans terms with audio pronunciation Category:Algherese Catalan Category:Amanab lemmas Category:Amanab nouns Category:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English lemmas Category:Antigua and Barbuda Creole English nouns Category:Arára (Pará) lemmas Category:Arára (Pará) nouns Category:Balearic Catalan Category:Catalan countable nouns Category:Catalan lemmas Category:Catalan masculine nouns Category:Catalan non-lemma forms Category:Catalan nouns Category:Catalan terms derived from Latin Category:Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan Category:Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European Category:Catalan terms inherited from Latin Category:Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation Category:Catalan terms with quotations Category:Catalan verb forms Category:Franco-Provençal adverbs Category:Franco-Provençal determiners Category:Franco-Provençal lemmas Category:Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin Category:Franco-Provençal terms inherited from Latin Category:French 1-syllable words Category:French countable nouns Category:French lemmas Category:French masculine nouns Category:French nouns Category:French nouns with plural in -oux Category:French terms derived from Late Latin Category:French terms derived from Latin Category:French terms derived from Old French Category:French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European Category:French terms inherited from Late Latin Category:French terms inherited from Latin Category:French terms inherited from Old French Category:French terms with IPA pronunciation Category:French terms with audio pronunciation Category:French terms with homophones Category:Haitian Creole lemmas Category:Haitian Creole nouns Category:Haitian Creole prepositions Category:Haitian Creole terms derived from French Category:Haitian Creole terms inherited from French Category:Haitian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Haitian Creole terms with quotations Category:Hanyu Pinyin Category:Mandarin non-lemma forms Category:Mandarin nonstandard forms Category:Mandarin terms with redundant script codes Category:Mauritian Creole auxiliary verbs Category:Mauritian Creole invariable verbs Category:Mauritian Creole lemmas Category:Mauritian Creole prepositions Category:Mauritian Creole terms derived from French Category:Mauritian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Mauritian Creole verbs Category:Middle French adverbs Category:Middle French lemmas Category:Middle French terms derived from Old French Category:Middle French terms inherited from Old French Category:Māori lemmas Category:Māori nouns Category:Māori terms derived from Proto-Oceanic Category:Māori terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic Category:Māori verbs Category:ORB, broad Category:Old French adverbs Category:Old French lemmas Category:Pages with 15 entries Category:Pages with entries Category:Rhymes:Catalan/ow Category:Rhymes:Catalan/ow/1 syllable Category:Rhymes:French/u Category:Rhymes:French/u/1 syllable Category:Tulu-Bohuai lemmas Category:Tulu-Bohuai nouns Category:Yanomamö lemmas Category:Yanomamö nouns Category:af:Fowls Category:fr:Insects Category:guu:Geography Category:rak:Pigs