pou

From Dutch pauw.

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pou (plural poue, diminutive poutjie)

1. peacock

• gompou

pou

1. a kind of snake

From Old Catalan pou, from an older */pots/ (with regular /-ts/ > /u̯/), from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). Attested from 1272.[1] Compare Occitan potz, French puits, Spanish pozo.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpow/

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• Rhymes: -ɔw

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:

     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.

• pouar

• “pou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

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.

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:

     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.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

pou

1. pillar

• 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)