pis

See also: Pis, PiS, piś, piš, piș, -pis, pi·š, and Piś

English

Noun

pis

1. plural of pi

Anagrams

• IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PSI, SIP, SPI, iPS, isp, psi, sip

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pis]

Noun

pis

1. shore, beach

References

• Bugaeva, Anna. Handbook of the Ainu Language, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیس‎ (pis, “dirty, filthy, foul”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis/
• Rhymes: -is

Adjective

pis (feminine pise)

1. (colloquial) dirty, filthy

   Synonym: i pistë

Noun

pis m (plural pisë)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) filth, mess

Adverb

pis

1. dirty (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Antonym: pastër

Derived terms

• i pistë
• pisanik

 

Related terms

• pisllëk

 

Further reading

• “pis”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1487

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		пис
Perso-Arabic		پیس‎

Etymology

Probably from Persian پیس‎ (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic), whence also Turkish pis (“filthy”), and Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pis]

• Audio

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Adjective

pis (comparative daha pis, superlative ən pis)

1. bad

   Synonym: yaman

   Vəziyyətimiz çox pisdir. ― Our situation is very bad.

2. naughty, dirty

   Gecə yatmamışdan əvvəl pis-pis kinolara baxıblar yəqin. ― They must have been watching some naughty movies before they went to sleep

Antonyms

• yaxşı

Derived terms

• pislik (“misdoing, evil, harm”)
• pisləmək (“to condemn”)
• pisləşmək (“to get worse, to deteriorate”)

Descendants

• → Lezgi: пис (pis)

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from pisar.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Noun

pis m (plural pisos)

1. floor (storey)
2. flat (apartment)
3. (castells) each of the levels of a castell

Further reading

• “pis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “pis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Interjection

pis

1. dammit

Synonyms

• satans

Noun

pis

1. (vulgar) piss
2. (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪs/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

pis m (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) piss
2. (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

Descendants

• Negerhollands: pische

Verb

pis

1. inflection of pissen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi/

• audio

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• Homophones: pi, pie, pies

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French pis, peis, from Latin pēius, from pēior. Compare pire.

Adverb

pis

2. worse

Derived terms

• de mal en pis
• de pis en pis
• dire pis que pendre de
• en mettant les choses au pis
• pis que pendre
• pis-aller
• tant pis

 

Related terms

• pire

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French piz, peiz (“chest, udder”), inherited from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”). The word underwent a semantic shift beginning in Old French and was gradually replaced by poitrine in the sense of “chest”.

Noun

pis m (plural pis)

2. udder

Related terms

• poitrine

Etymology 3

Syncope of puis.

Alternative forms

• pi

Conjunction

pis

1. (Quebec, Acadian, Louisiana, Missouri, colloquial) and, besides
   • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 78:

     "Je suis habituée, protesta-t-elle. Pis j’ai pas besoin d’un père pour me faire la morale." — I’m used to it, she protested. And I don’t need a father to lecture me

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “pis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• psi, spi

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese peixe. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pexi.

Noun

pis

1. fish

Irish

piseanna

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʲɪʃ/

Noun

pis f (genitive singular pise, nominative plural piseanna)

1. pea

Declension

Declension of pis

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative pis piseanna Vocative a phis a phiseanna Genitive pise piseanna Dative pis piseanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an phis na piseanna Genitive na pise na bpiseanna Dative leis an bpis don phis leis na piseanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pis	phis	bpis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Lithuanian

Verb

pis

1. third-person singular future of pisti
2. third-person plural future of pisti

Middle English

Noun

pis

1. Alternative form of pisse

Norman

Noun

pis m pl

1. plural of pi

Old English

Etymology

From Latin pēnsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːs/

Adjective

pīs

1. heavy, weighty

Declension

Declension of pīs — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pīs	pīs	pīs
Accusative	pīsne	pīse	pīs
Genitive	pīses	pīsre	pīses
Dative	pīsum	pīsre	pīsum
Instrumental	pīse	pīsre	pīse
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pīse	pīsa, pīse	pīs
Accusative	pīse	pīsa, pīse	pīs
Genitive	pīsra	pīsra	pīsra
Dative	pīsum	pīsum	pīsum
Instrumental	pīsum	pīsum	pīsum

Declension of pīs — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pīsa	pīse	pīse
Accusative	pīsan	pīsan	pīse
Genitive	pīsan	pīsan	pīsan
Dative	pīsan	pīsan	pīsan
Instrumental	pīsan	pīsan	pīsan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pīsan	pīsan	pīsan
Accusative	pīsan	pīsan	pīsan
Genitive	pīsra, pīsena	pīsra, pīsena	pīsra, pīsena
Dative	pīsum	pīsum	pīsum
Instrumental	pīsum	pīsum	pīsum

Derived terms

• pīsian
• pīslīċ
• pīslīċe

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pīs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pis

1. call used for cats

Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre (“to urinate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpis/ [ˈpis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: pis

Noun

pis m (plural pis)

1. pee, wee

   Synonym: orina

Derived terms

• hacer pis
• hacerse pis

 

Further reading

• “pis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English fish.

Noun

pis

1. fish
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:21:

     Orait God i mekim kamap ol traipela pis na snek bilong solwara, na ol arapela kain samting bilong solwara, na ol kain kain pisin.

     →New International Version translation

Turkish

Etymology

Probably from Persian پیس‎ (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic), whence also Azerbaijani pis (“bad, dirty”), Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”) and Armenian փիս (pʿis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis/

Adjective

pis

1. dirty

Synonyms

• kirli

Derived terms

• pis bıyık
• pislemek
• pislik