pobo

Borôro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ̰bɔ/

Noun

pobo

1. water

Synonyms

• po

References

• Pequeno dicionário bororo-português (1997)

Esperanto

Noun

pobo (accusative singular pobon, plural poboj, accusative plural pobojn)

1. (nautical) the rear of a boat, stern

   Synonym: poŭpo

Antonyms

• pruo (“prow”)

See also

• steveno

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus. Compare Portuguese povo, Spanish pueblo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔβo̝/

Noun

pobo m (plural pobos)

1. people, folk, commoners

   Synonym: xente

   • 1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 98:

     pera proueyto do dito conçello e cabíidoo et de todo o poboo da dita çidade

     for the profit of said council and chapter and of all the people of said city

2. people, nation

   Synonym: nación

   • 2002, Ramón Piñeiro, Da miña acordanza: memorias, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 74:

     É dicir, que no goberno que representaba a legalidade republicana non se recoñecía politicamente a Galicia, a pesar de que o pobo galego aprobara en plebiscito o seu Estatuto de Autonomía.

     That is, the government that represented the republican legality did not politically recognize Galicia, even though the Galician people had approved, in a plebiscite, their Statute of Autonomy [devolution act]

3. town

   Synonym: vila

Related terms

• poboación
• poboanza
• poboar
• Pobra

References

• “poboo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pobo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pobo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Gbiri-Niragu

Etymology

Cognate to Nupe po.

Verb

pobo

1. to roast (burn or cook)

References

• R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages

Mirandese

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese povo, from Latin populus, possibly of Etruscan origin.

Noun

pobo f (plural pobos)

1. people

Spanish

Etymology

Irregularly from Vulgar Latin *plōppus, from classical Latin pōpulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpobo/ [ˈpo.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: po‧bo

Noun

pobo m (plural pobos)

1. either of two closely related trees:
   1. a white poplar (Populus alba).
   2. a black poplar (Populus nigra).

Further reading

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