po

• IPA^(key): /pəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English po (found also in pocock), from Old English pāwa, pēa (“peacock”), from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau. See also peacock.

po (plural pos)

1. (obsolete) A peacock. [8th–19th c.]

A diminutive of pot.

po (plural pos)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot. [from 19th c.]
   • 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67:

     ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.

   • 1989, Leonard Woolf, Frederic Spotts, editor, Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86:

     There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, p. 44:

     Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.

• See Thesaurus:chamber pot

• Yoruba: póò

• OP, Op., op, op.

• Tone: LL[1]

po

1. to bully

   po mo - to bully you

• Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎, Basel, page 381

From Proto-Albanian *apā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é (“then, at that time”). Compare German ob (“if, whether”), Dutch of (“or, whether, but”), English if. According to Brian D. Joseph, it is a difficult word with unclear root. Hamp claims origin from Proto-Indo-European *pest (“so”)[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

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po

1. yes
2. Used with the present and imperfect tense of a verb to show a continuous action.
   It corresponds to the English "be + gerund" formation.

po

1. do (make, work, perform)

• V. da Silva Sinha et al, Event-based time intervals in an Amazonian culture, in Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition

• fo (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur)

po

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012), page 50

Borrowed from Macedonian по- (po-) or dialectal Serbo-Croatian.[1]

po

1. -er, more; forms comparative adjectives and adverbs.[1][2][3][4][5]
2. follows the definite article to form the superlative[4][5]

Borrowed from Tagalog po.

• IPA^(key): /poʔ/

pò

1. (polite) marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Dagos po kamo.

   Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Ma, maduman po ako sa simbahan.

   Mom, I am going to church.

   Synonym: tabi

po

1. Synonym of pobo (“water”)

• Mônica Cidele da Cruz, Povo Umutína : a busca da identidade linguística e cultural [Les Umutína : À la recherche d’une identité linguistique et culturelle], Université Unicamp / Campinas, 2012, page 40

po

1. our

Borrowed from English post.

po

1. (Internet slang) to post

   fb狂po相，朋友易受傷 [Cantonese, trad.]
   fb狂po相，朋友易受伤 [Cantonese, simp.]

   From:

   fb kwong⁴ pou¹ soeng^3-2, pang⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sau⁶ soeng¹ [Jyutping]

   post too many images on Facebook and you might damage your [relationships with] friends

po

1. (Internet slang) an Internet post, thread, topic, etc

po

1. or

• IPA^(key): [ˈpo]

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po

1. Abbreviation of pondělí (“Monday”).

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Czech po, from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó.

po + locative

1. after

po + accusative

1. (space, time, scales, lists) up to, for
2. (dimension) all through

• po in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• po in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowing from French pot.

• IPA^(key): /poː/
• Rhymes: -oː

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po m (plural po's, diminutive pootje n)

1. chamber pot

• → Papiamentu: pò

• op

• IPA^(key): [po]
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• Hyphenation: po

Borrowed from Russian по (po) and Polish po.

po

1. A grammatical particle used with quantity words to indicate rate or a distributive quantity: each, apiece, at, @

   Mi kudrados ĉiutage po 10 horoj. ― I will sew 10 hours a day.

   Oni povas nokti po 6 frankoj. ― You can spend the night for 6 francs (a night).

   La kurso daŭras dum 10 tagoj po 30 minutoj. ― The course lasts 10 days at 30 minutes (a day).

   La komitato estas rebalotota ĉiun trian jaron po triono. ― A third of the committee is reelected every third year.

   La gastoj trinkis po (unu) glaseton da vino. ― The guests each drank one glass of wine.

   Ili ricevis po 5 pomojn. ― They received 5 apples apiece.

   Elektu al vi po 3 homojn el ĉiu tribo. ― Choose for yourselves 3 people (apiece) from each tribe.

   Antonym: -ope

• po-
• poa

po (accusative singular po-on, plural po-oj, accusative plural po-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

From Old Galician-Portuguese poo, from Vulgar Latin *pulus, from earlier *pulvus n, from Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Compare Portuguese pó. Doublet of polvo, which was borrowed from Spanish polvo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ]

po m (plural pos)

1. dust
   • 1276, M. Lucas Álvarez; P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos. Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 375:

     et este pan deue a seer qual o Deus der no logar et seer linpo de palla et de poo, d'eruellada et de mosceyra, et deue a seer ben seco et ben linpo et bõõ pan

     and this grain must be that that God gives at that place, and it must be clean of chaff and dust, of vetch and fodder, and it must be well dry and well clean and good grain

2. powder
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     E Nota que o poo dos collos das abroteas ual mays que todos llos outros, et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias

     Take note that the powder of the rhizomes of the asphodels has more value than all the rest, and that these powders should be used in places that are nervous and entangled with veins and arteries

• poalla
• poeira

• “poo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “poo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “po” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “po” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “po” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /po/

po (plural pokuéra)

1. hand

po

1. five

po

1. jump

• (che) apo
• (nde) repo
• (ha'e) opo
• (ñande) japo
• (ore) ropo
• (peẽ) pepo
• (ha'ekuéra) opo

From Portuguese pau. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pó.

po

1. tree
2. stick

From Portuguese pó. Cognate with Kabuverdianu puera.

po

1. dust

From French peau (“skin”).

po

1. (anatomy) skin

Probably from French pot.

• IPA^(key): /pôː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [pôː]

pô m (possessed form pôn)

1. children's toilet

Borrowed from Esperanto po, Russian по (po).

• IPA^(key): /po/

po

1. for, at the price of, in exchange for; per

   Me kompris la domo po quaradek mil euri. ― I bought the house for forty thousand euros.

po

1. water

• Walter Seiler, The Main Structures of Imonda (1984)
• Walter Seiler, Imonda: Papuan Language, page 188: "Another excellent example that illustrates the relational character of -l, is provided by po water. When po is used to refer to general water, rain or creeks it has no -l. When it refers to wound water or coconut water it does end in -l."

po

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぽ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ポ

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pa (“after, by”); compare Latvian pa-, Old Prussian po (“after, by, under”), Proto-Slavic *po (“after, by, at”). From Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away, from”). Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀢 (a-pu, “from”), Sanskrit अप (ápa, “away, off”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱 (a-p /apa/, “away”), Latin ab (“from”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of”). See pa-, pó- for more.

põ

1. (with instrumental case) under, beneath (movement, position)
2. (with instrumental or genitive case) beside, near, along (movement, position)
3. (with instrumental or dative case) expresses the direction of movement

   eik põ dešinei ― go to the right

4. (with genitive case) after, following a certain time period, event; after the disappearance or loss of
5. (with genitive case) expresses gradual progression; one after another

   mẽtai põ mẽtų ― year after year

6. (with dative case) until, up to a certain time

   Teñ jiẽ gyvẽna ir̃ põ šiái diẽnai ― they live there until this day

7. (with accusative case) around, throughout the whole of

   keliáuti põ Europą ― travel around Europe

8. (with accusative case) used to express division into equal parts

   vaikaĩ gãvo põ gãbalą sū́rio ― the kids got a piece of cheese each

   põ truputį ― little by little

9. (with genitive, instrumental or dative case) expresses the manner of an action

• apačia
• pa-, po-

po

1. Superseded spelling of pó.

po (po⁵／po⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 桲

po

1. Nonstandard spelling of pō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pò.

• 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.

• pa, paa, paue, pe, poo, poue

Inherited from Old English pāwa, pēa, from Proto-Germanic *pāwô, from Latin pāvō. Influenced by the first element of Old Norse páfugl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː/, /ˈpau̯(ə)/, /ˈpɛː/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː/

po (plural poos)

1. peacock

• pecok

• English: pea, po (both archaic)

• “pō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Cognate to Gbiri-Niragu pobo.

po

1. to burn, to roast

• R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages
• Samuel Crowther, A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Nupe Language (1864)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó. First attested in the 14th century.

po

1. Denotes sequence in time; after [+locative]
2. Denotes general location; at, in, on [+locative] or [+dative]
3. (more specifically) along [+locative]
4. Denotes previous related person; after [+locative]
5. Denotes next in a sequence of people; after [+locative]
6. Denotes cause; after; because of [+locative]
7. according to, in accordance with [+locative]
8. Denotes an instrument to an acction; with, by means of [+locative]
9. according to, based on [+locative]
10. Denotes manner of the object; like, as [+locative]
11. Denotes distribution; per [+locative] or [+dative]
12. Used in grammatical government. [+locative]
13. It indicates a spatial limit; up to [+accusative]
14. Denotes a time when something takes place; during [+accusative] or [+dative]
15. Denotes the aim or purpose of an action; for [+accusative]
16. Creates an adverb from the next noun. [+accusative]
17. With an ordinal number; denotes which time in a sequence; for the _ time [+accusative]

    Synonym: za

18. Denotes the source or agent of an action. [+dative]
19. Denotes the distribution of the counted items. [+dative] or [+accusative] or [+locative]

• Polish: po

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “po”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /po/

Shortened form of japo.

po

1. hand

From po (“five fingers”).

po

1. five

Onomatopoeic

po

1. to jump

Inherited from Old Polish po, from Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

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• Syllabification: po

po

1. after (later in time or sequence) [+locative]

   W piątki po pracy często chodzimy do pubu. ― On Fridays after work we often go to the pub.

   Cały dzień czyta książkę po książce o polityce. ― All day long he reads book after book about politics.

2. after (in pursuit of) [+accusative]

   Jadą po nas! Zmykajcie! ― They're coming after us! Scram!

3. around, about [+locative]

   Mój brat spędził miesiąc podróżując po Polsce. ― My brother spent a month travelling around Poland.

4. past [+locative]

   Wykłady zaczynają się o kwadrans po ósmej. ― Lectures begin at quarter past eight.

5. on [+locative]

   Kobiety siedzą po prawej stronie, a mężczyźni po lewej. ― Women sit on the right hand, and men on the left.

6. for indicates that a container was previously used for something [+locative]

   Co zrobić ze słoikiem po dżemie? ― What can I do with an empty jam jar?

7. from [+locative]

   Tę całą biżuterię odziedziczyłam po matce. ― I inherited all this jewellery from my mother.

   Od razu rozpoznałem go po grzmiącym głosie. ― I instantly recognised him from the booming voice.

8. after (in allusion to), for [+locative]

   Nazwaliśmy naszego syna po zmarłym wujku. ― We named our son after his late uncle.

9. done for (doomed) [+locative]

   Jest już po tobie, brachu. ― You're done for, bro.

10. for (in order to obtain) [+accusative]

    Musimy pójść do sklepu po mleko. ― We have to go to the shop for milk.

11. up to, as far as [+accusative]

    Woda w piwnicy była po kolana. ― The water in the cellar was up to our knees.

12. in, for, at denotes a quantity of something [+accusative]

    Mam trzy zgrzewki po sześć puszek, czyli osiemnaście puszek. ― I have three multipacks of six cans, i.e. eighteen cans.

    Kupiłem te bilety po 20 złotych, a oferuję je po 10. ― I bought these tickets for 20 złoty each, but I'm offering them for 10.

13. according to, in the way of, a la, as [+dative]

    Jego ulubioną potrawą jest karkówka po cygańsku. ― His favourite dish is gypsy pork.

    Lubię ją, ale tylko po przyjacielsku. ― I like her, but only as a friend.

14. in (the language of) [+date]

    Świetnie mówisz po polsku jak na cudzoziemca. ― You speak great Polish for a foreigner.

    Nie umiem pisać po chińsku. ― I don't know how to write in Chinese.

• Dative adjectives that end in -ski for the lemma take the archaic suffix -sku instead of the usual -skiemu when used with this preposition.

po

1. like
2. when

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), po is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 282 times in scientific texts, 293 times in news, 195 times in essays, 552 times in fiction, and 406 times in plays, totaling 1728 times, making it the 24th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

• po in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• po in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “po”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2022
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “po”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 274

po

1. night

po

1. night

• pro

From Latin pro.

po

1. (Campidanese) for

po

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 113

From pol, from Proto-Slavic *polъ. See po-.

• pȏl

• IPA^(key): /pôː/

pȏ (Cyrillic spelling по̑)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) half

   sat i po ― hour and a half

   četiri i po ― four thirty

   čov(j)ek i po ― an excellent man

From Proto-Slavic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)po.

• IPA^(key): /pô/

pȍ (Cyrillic spelling по̏)

1. (+ accusative case) for

   otići po ml(ij)eko ― to go and get the milk

   po c(ij)eli dan ― all day long

   po šesti put ― for the sixth time

   biti štetan po nekoga/nešto ― to be harmful for sb/sth

   dobro/loše po njega ― good/bad for him

2. (+ locative case) over, through, across, in, on

   udariti po glavi ― to hit on the head

   sn(ij)eg je pao po cesti ― snow fell on the road

   voda se prolila po podu ― water spilled over the floor

   šetati po šumi ― to walk in the woods

3. (+ locative case) by, with, through (using an intermediary or medium)

   Poslao sam mu paket po zajedničkom prijatelju. ― I've sent him a package via a mutual friend.

   po zraku/vodi ― by air/water

4. (+ locative case) by, according to

   sve ide po planu ― everything is going according to the plan

   Amerika je prva država po bogatstvu u sv(ij)etu. ― America is the richest country in the world.

   po glavi stanovnika ― per capita

   živ(j)eti po principima ― to live according to principles

   po mom(e) mišljenju ― in my opinion

   po mom računu ― by my reckoning

   po meni ― in my opinion; as far as I'm concerned

   svirati po sluhu ― to play by ear

   suditi po vanjštini ― to judge by appearance

5. (+ locative case) after

   po svršetku sukoba ― after (the end of) the conflict

6. (+ locative case) during

   po kiši/suncu ― in the rain/sun

   po danu ― during the day

7. (+ locative case) in miscellaneous senses in various phrasal constructs

   razum(ij)e se (samo) po sebi ― it goes without saying

   neka bude po tvome ― let it be your way

   jednak po veličini ― equal in size

   sve je po starom ― everything is/goes in the accustomed/usual manner

   po običaju ― as usual, according to custom

   po vr(ij)ednosti ― in value

   po svoj prilici ― in all likelihood

   po rodu ― by birth

   po naravi/prirodi ― in nature

   po toj c(ij)eni ― at this price

   po paragrafu 13 ― under section 13

   po što po to ― by all means

   po mogućnosti ― if possible

   po redu ― in order, one after another

   po mom ukusu ― (according) to my taste

   po kvaliteti ― by quality

   po tome ― according to this/that, accordingly, consequently, then

   po zakonu ― according to the law, by the law

   po duljini ― lengthwise

po (Cyrillic spelling по)

1. (+ accusative case or nominative case) denoting distribution and succession; by, per, each, apiece

   Popili smo svi po čašicu rakije. ― We all drank a glass of rakija each.

   korak po korak ― step by step

   jedan po jedan ― one by one

   triput po satu ― three times per hour

   Svi smo dobili po jabuku. ― Each of us received an apple.

• “po” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “po” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *po.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ/

po

1. (with locative) around, about
2. (with locative) along, through (the length of)
3. according to
4. (with accusative) in the manner of
5. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

From pues.

po

1. (colloquial, Chile) emphatical

   ¡Si po! ― Yes, of course!

   ¡Ya, po! ― Come on!

   Synonym: pues

Always used at the end of a sentence.

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-po

1. present stem of -wapo (“to be (at a definite place)”)

   tupo ― we are (there)

• -po: verbal affix
• -wako (“to be (at an indefinite place)”)
• -wamo (“to be inside (of a definite place)”)

From a clipping of p'oon (“lord”),[1] a contraction of panginoon (“lord”). Compare Malay empu, Indonesian empu, Old Javanese mpu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoʔ/, [ˈpoʔ]

pô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

1. marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing

   Tuloy po kayo. ― Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.

   Pupunta po ako sa simbahan, Inay. ― I am going to church, Mother.

   Synonym: ho

The word po is more formal and polite than ho.

• “po” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2023.
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot

Lehmann considers the possibility of a connection to Zoque words for "white" (poopo).

po

1. moon

• This is the form Lehmann says is given in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists; the form given in Johnston's vocabulary is poot.

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.

póː (high tone)

1. moon

pòː (low tone)

1. water

pǒː (gliding tone)

1. trail, road

• Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America
• John Peabody Harrington, The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians
• My Life in San Juan Pueblo: Stories of Esther Martinez (uses the spelling pˀoe, and mentions a fourth meaning, "pumpkin, squash")

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?] (whence also Tocharian A puk). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

po

1. entire, whole

po

1. each, every, all

• (masc. nom. pl.): poñc

• olyapo (“more, rather than”) (olya + po)

po

1. water

• Mônica Cidele da Cruz, Povo Umutína : a busca da identidade linguística e cultural [Les Umutína : À la recherche d’une identité linguistique et culturelle], Université Unicamp / Campinas, 2012, page 40

Borrowed from Latin post (“behind”).

po

1. behind

   Antonym: fo

• po-

po

1. water

• Bob Brown, Waris grammar sketch, 1990 (2012), page 29

Relate to Shor по, Khakas пу (pu) Tofa бо, Tuvan бо (bo), Karaim бу , Krymchak бу, Southern Altai бу (bu), Kyrgyz бул (bul), etc.

po

1. this

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˧/

po

1. spleen

• John Duffy, Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community →ISBN, 2007)

• IPA^(key): /k͡pò/

pò

1. (transitive) to mix, to stir

   Má pò ó pọ̀ síbẹ̀. ― Don't mix it together yet.

2. (transitive) to beat, to whisk

   Bá mi po ẹyin. ― Help me beat the eggs.

3. (transitive) to knead
4. (transitive) to make warm drinks, baby food, or medicine.

   A gbọ́dọ̀ lo omi gbígbóná nígbà tí a bá fẹ́ po tíì. ― We must use hot water when we want to make tea.

• po when followed by a direct object.

• IPA^(key): /k͡pó/

pó

1. to be too small

   awó dára lẹ́yẹ, ṣùgbọ́n orí pó o ― The guinea fowl is a beautiful bird, but it has a very small head