pos
English
Adjective
pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)
- (UK, slang) Clipping of positive.
- I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.
- (slang) Clipping of HIV positive.
Galician
German
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin post (with the t dropped so not to interfere with posto (“postal service, post, mail”)), Russian после (posle).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pos/, /pɔs/
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch post (“post”), from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, posto, from Latin postus, from positus. Cognate to Malay pos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɔs]
- Hyphenation: pos
Noun
pos (plural pos-pos, first-person possessive posku, second-person possessive posmu, third-person possessive posnya)
- post, station
- (colloquial) meeting place
- (accounting) budget
Derived terms
- mengepos
- mengeposkan
- pengeposan
- pos ekspres
- pos elektronik
- pos kilat
- pos kilat khusus
- pos laut
- pos paket
- pos suara
- pos udara
- pos wesel
Further reading
- “pos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
From English post. Cognate to Indonesian pos.
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpos]
- Rhymes: -os
- Syllabification: pos
Further reading
- “pos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɒ˩/
References
- Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)
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