pô

From Latin pavor.

pô m (plural pôs)

1. fear

pô

1. water

• Susanne Holzknecht, The Markham languages of Papua New Guinea (1989), page 71

• Rhymes: -o

pô

1. apocopic form of pôr; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
2. eye dialect spelling of pôr, representing Caipira Portuguese

Reduction of porra (“damn!”).

pô

1. (Brazil, vulgar) It expresses astonishment, annoyance, boredom

   Pô, que difícil!

   Damn, how difficult!

   Isso é legal, pô.

   Damn, this is cool.

In Brazil, pô is only very slightly less offensive than porra itself

pô

1. contraction of pi lu (“for the”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɵ/
• Rhymes: -ɵ
• Syllabification: pô

pô

1. denotes location; behind [with accusative]
2. denotes point to which an action lasts; up to [with accusative]
3. denotes destination of movement; up to [with accusative]
4. denotes distributive meaning with a numeral; each; per [with accusative]
5. denotes conformity according to which something happens; along, according to [with dative]
6. denotes distributive meaning with stô and tësinc; each [with dative]
7. with an ordinal numeral, denotes position in a sequence or enumeration; of all [with dative or locative]
8. (rare) denotes movement along a surface; along, around [with dative]
9. denotes movement along a surface; along, around [with locative or (rarely) dative]
10. denotes time; after [with locative]

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1912) “pʉ̀ɵ̯”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 898

• bô

From French pot d'échappement (literally “pot of escapement”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [po˧˧], [ʔɓo˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [pow˧˧], [ʔɓow˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [pow˧˧], [ʔɓow˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: pô, bô

pô

1. short for ống pô (“exhaust pipe”)