post

See also: Post, POST, pöst, pøst, post., and post-

English

Wooden posts.

Alternative forms

• poast (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊst/
• (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA^(key): /poʊst/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊst

Etymology 1

From Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

8. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
   • (Can we date this quote?) S. Rowlands

     When God sends coin / I will discharge your post.

Derived terms

Terms derived from post (noun) "dowel"

• bedpost
• doorpost
• fencepost
• from pillar to post
• gatepost

• goalpost
• hitching post
• king post
• lamppost, lamp post

• listening post
• milepost
• newel post
• poster

• post hole
• scratching post
• signpost
• tool post

Translations

long dowel or plank protruding from the ground

• Arabic: عَمُود‎ m (ʿamūd)
• Assamese: খুটি (khuti)
• Bashkir: бағана (bağana); баған (bağan) (Eastern Bashkir)
• Belarusian: слуп m (slup)
• Bulgarian: стълб (bg) m (stǎlb)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柱子 (zh) (zhùzi)

• Czech: sloup (cs) m
• Dutch: paal (nl)
• Esperanto: fosto (eo)
• Finnish: tolppa (fi)
• French: poteau (fr) m
• German: Pfosten (de) m
• Greek: στύλος (el) m (stýlos), πάσσαλος (el) m (pássalos), κολώνα (el) f (kolóna), δοκάρι (el) n (dokári)
• Hungarian: oszlop (hu)
• Irish: cuaille m
• Japanese: 柱 (ja) (はしら, hashira)
• Khmer: បង្គោល (km) (bɑŋkoul)
• Korean: 기둥 (ko) (gidung)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: дирек m (dírek), столб m (stólb), кол m (kol)

• Maori: turi (mi), pou, turu, tuturu, koteo
• Mongolian: багана (mn) (bagana)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stolpe m

  Nynorsk: stolpe m

• Persian: ستون‎ (fa) (sotun)
• Polish: słup (pl) m
• Portuguese: mourão (pt) m (of a fence), estaca (pt) f (small), poste (pt) m (big)
• Romanian: stâlp (ro) m
• Russian: столб (ru) m (stolb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стуб m

  Roman: stub (sh) m

• Slovak: stĺp m
• Slovene: steber (sl) m, stolp (sl) m
• Spanish: poste (es) m
• Swedish: påle (sv) c, stolpe (sv) c, grindstolpe c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: direk (tr), kazık (tr)
• Ukrainian: стовп m (stovp)
• Westrobothnian: stālp m, støl m

(construction) stud; two-by-four

• Finnish: kakkosnelonen (fi)
• Portuguese: sarrafo (pt) m, ripa (pt) f

• Swedish: regel (sv) c, stolpe (sv) c

pole in a battery

• Dutch: pool (nl)
• Finnish: napa (fi)

• Greek: πόλος (el) m (pólos)
• Swedish: pol (sv) c

piece inserted in root canal

(vocal music, eps. a capella) prolonged final melody note

goalpost (sports)

• Danish: stolpe c, målstolpe c
• Dutch: doelpaal (nl), paal (nl)

• Finnish: tolppa (fi)
• Swedish: stolpe (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} paštas (lt)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} poste (es) m, ^{(please verify)} estaca (es) f

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • (Can we date this quote?) Granville

     On pain of being posted to your sorrow / Fail not, at four, to meet me.

3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Arbuthnot

     You have not posted your books these ten years.

4. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • (Can we date this quote?) London Saturday Review

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

5. (transitive, poker) To pay (a blind).

   Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

6. To put content online, usually through a publicly accessible mean, such as a video channel, gallery, message board, blog etc.

Derived terms

• poster

Translations

to hang a notice in a conspicuous manner

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: alglui, afiŝi
• Finnish: laittaa esille
• French: afficher (fr)
• German: please add this translation if you can

• Khmer: បិទប្រកាស (bet prɑkaah)
• Russian: приколоть (ru) pf (prikalót), прикалывать (ru) pf (prikálivat), вы́весить (ru) pf (vývesitʹ), вы́вешивать (ru) impf (vyvéšivatʹ)
• Spanish: colgar (es), fijar (es)
• Swedish: anslå, sätta upp (sv), spika (sv), skriva (sv)
• Tagalog: magpaskil
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to send to an electronic forum

• Finnish: postata (fi)
• French: poster (fr)
• Japanese: 書き込む (かきこむ, kakikomu)
• Norman: poster

• Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
• Spanish: postear (es)
• Swedish: posta (sv), skriva (sv), skicka (sv)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th-17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) Archbishop Abbot

     In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   sent via post; parcel post

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
7. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum. [from 20th c.]
8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

10. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
    • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

      In post he came.

11. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Palfrey

      He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

Derived terms

Terms derived from post (noun) "position; mail"

• crosspost
• outpost
• post bag, postbag
• post box, postbox
• postcard
• post chaise

• post code, postcode
• postgasm
• postgirl
• post-haste, posthaste
• post horn, posthorn
• post-horse, posthorse

• post-house
• postlady
• postman
• postmaster
• post office, postoffice

• post-rider, postrider
• postwoman
• staging post
• sticky post
• trading post

Translations

location on a basketball court

• Catalan: pivot (ca) m, f

method of delivering mail

• Arabic: بَرِيد‎ m (barīd)

  Egyptian Arabic: بريد‎ m (bariid), بوسطة‎ f (busṭa)

• Armenian: փոստ (hy) (pʿost)
• Dutch: post (nl)
• Finnish: posti (fi)
• French: courrier (fr)
• German: Post (de) f
• Greek: ταχυδρομείο (el) n (tachydromeío)
• Macedonian: пошта f (póšta)

• Malay: pos
• Maori: pōhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: post (no) m

  Nynorsk: post m

• Portuguese: correio (pt) m, postagem f
• Swedish: post (sv) c
• Yiddish: פּאָסט‎ f, n (post)

individual message in a forum

• Arabic: رِسَالَة‎ f (risāla), خِطَاب‎ m (ḵiṭāb), كِتَاب‎ (ar) m (kitāb)
• Armenian: հանրագիր (hy) (hanragir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帖子 (zh) (tiězi)

• Finnish: viesti (fi), postaus (fi)
• French: message (fr) m, billet (fr) m
• German: Beitrag (de) m
• Greek: ανάρτηση (el) f (anártisi)

• Indonesian: kiriman (id)
• Japanese: 書き込み (かきこみ, kakikomi), カキコ (kakiko) (slang)
• Malay: kiriman
• Polish: post (pl) m, wypowiedź (pl) f, wiadomość (pl) f
• Portuguese: post (pt) m, publicação (pt)
• Russian: сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), (colloquial) пост (ru) m (post)
• Swedish: postning c, meddelande (sv) n, inlägg (sv) n

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

3. (Britain) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

Derived terms

• poster

Translations

to send mail

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寄 (gei³)

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: posten (nl), op de post doen, versturen (nl), verzenden (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lähettää viesti
• French: poster (fr), mettre à la poste
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schicken (de)

• Greek: ταχυδρομώ (el) (tachydromó)
• Khmer: ផ្ញើសំបុត្រ (pɲaə sɑmbot)
• Maori: pōhi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

(Internet) to publish a message

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 張貼 (zh), 张贴 (zh) (zhāngtiē), PO (pō)

  Min Nan: PO (pho͘), 貼 (zh-min-nan) (tah)

• Esperanto: afiŝi
• Finnish: lähettää viesti, postata (fi)
• French: poster (fr)
• German: posten (de)

• Norwegian: legge ut
• Portuguese: postar (pt)
• Russian: помеща́ть сообще́ние (pomeščátʹ soobščénije), (perfective) помести́ть сообще́ние (pomestítʹ soobščénije)
• Spanish: postear (es)
• Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv), skriva (sv)
• Vietnamese: đăng (vi)

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; express, with speed, quickly
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 353:

     In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 93:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.

2. Sent via the postal service.

Descendants

• German: posten

Translations

with the post, on post horses; express, with speed

• Finnish: postitse (fi)

sent via the postal service

• Finnish: postitse (fi)

Etymology 3

Probably from French poste.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

Translations

assigned station

• Danish: post (da) c
• Esperanto: posteno
• Estonian: punkt (et)
• Finnish: piste (fi)
• French: poste (fr) m
• German: Stelle (de) f, Posten (de) m

• Greek: θέση (el) f (thési)
• Indonesian: pos (id)
• Maori: putaanga
• Portuguese: posto (pt) m
• Russian: до́лжность (ru) f (dólžnostʹ)
• Swedish: vaktpost c, postering (sv) c, post (sv) c, kur (sv) c, vaktkur c

appointed position in an organization

• Georgian: პოსტი (ṗosṭi), თანამდებობა (tanamdeboba)

• Khmer: តំណែង (km) (tɑmnaeŋ)

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • De Quincey

     It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, […] or to get him posted.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin post.

Preposition

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, "Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show", The Guardian, online,

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, "Lew pressured to reveal what he knows", The Australian, online,

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

Noun

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.
   • 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image

     Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

See also

• post-

Anagrams

• OTPs, POTS, PTOs, Spot, TPOs, opts, pots, spot, stop, tops

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin postus, from positus.

Verb

post

1. past participle of pondre

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Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [poːst]

Noun

post m (plural postow)

1. post (method of sending mail)

Related terms

• lytherva
• postya
• sodhva an post

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔst

• audio

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Noun

post m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. mail
2. mail office
3. location or station, when a soldier is op post, he is where he is supposed to be.
4. post (position, office)

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

Derived terms

• handelspost
• postzegel

Verb

post

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of posten
2. imperative of posten

Anagrams

• spot, stop

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Esperanto

Etymology

Latin post

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /post/
• Hyphenation: post

Preposition

post

1. after
2. behind

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French

Etymology

From English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

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Irish

Alternative forms

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pˠɔsˠt̪ˠ]

Noun

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. (of employment) post, job

Declension

Declension of post

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative post poist Vocative a phoist a phosta Genitive poist post Dative post poist

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an post na poist Genitive an phoist na bpost Dative leis an bpost don phost leis na poist

Derived terms

timber post

• post deiridh (“stern-post”)

• post leapa (“bedpost”)

letters

• aerphost (“airmail”)
• bád poist (“mail-boat”)
• cárta poist (“post-card.”)
• cúrsa poist (“correspondence course”)

• fear poist (“mail carrier, postman”)
• máistir poist (“postmaster”)
• máistreás phoist (“postmistress”)
• oifig an phoist (“post office”)

• ordú poist (“postal order”)
• seirbhís phoist (“postal service”)
• stampa poist (“postage stamp”)
• teach poist (“post-house”)

military

• post ceannais (“command post”)
• post comhraic (“combat post”)

• post éisteachta (“listening post”)
• post faire (“lookout post”)

• post rialaithe (“control post”)

job

• i bpost (“in the office”)

• post mór (“big job”)

• post muiníne (“position of trust”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
post	phost	bpost
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "post" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “post” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “post” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

Anagrams

• spot, stop

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Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpost/

Noun

post m

1. skin

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Latin

Etymology

May refer to Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /post/, [pɔst]

• Audio (Classical)

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Preposition

post

1. (with accusative) (of space) behind
2. (with accusative) (of time) after, since, (transf.) besides, except

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. (of space) behind, back, backwards
2. (of time) afterwards, after

Antonyms

• (before): ante

Derived terms

• post-
• poster/ posterus
• postīcus

Descendants

• Aromanian: apoi
• → English: post-
• Franco-Provençal: pués
• French: puis, post-
• Istriot: puoi
• Italian: poi, dopo, pos-, post-
• Portuguese: pois, depois, após, pos-, pós-
• Romanian: păi, apoi
• Spanish: pues, después, pos-, post-
• Venetian: po, può

References

• post in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• post in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• post in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• post in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to overtake and pass some one: post se relinquere aliquem
    
  • to become famous, distinguish oneself: clarum fieri, nobilitari, illustrari (not the post-classical clarescere or inclarescere
    
  • within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam
    
  • within the memory of man: post homines natos
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

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Latvian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puôst]

Verb

post tr., 1st conj., pres. pošu, pos, poš, past posu

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian posta (in the given sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

Terms derived from post

• e-post
• kontrollpost
• postboks

• postbud
• postkasse
• postkontor

• postkort
• utpost

References

• “post” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian posta (in this sense)

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

Terms derived from post

• e-post
• kontrollpost

• postboks
• postkontor

• postkort
• utpost

References

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Etymology

From Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/

Noun

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

Declension

Declension of post (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	post	postas
accusative	post	postas
genitive	postes	posta
dative	poste	postum

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Noun

post m inan

1. fast

Declension

declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	post	posty
genitive	postu	postów
dative	postowi	postom
accusative	post	posty
instrumental	postem	postami
locative	poście	postach
vocative	poście	posty

Derived terms

• (verb) pościć impf
• (adjective) postny

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m anim

1. post (message)

Declension

declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	post	posty
genitive	posta	postów
dative	postowi	postom
accusative	posta	posty
instrumental	postem	postami
locative	poście	postach
vocative	poście	posty

Further reading

• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpowst͡ʃ/, /ˈpost͡ʃ/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (individual message in an on-line discussion)

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

See also

• păresimi
• Postul Mare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔs̪t̪/

Noun

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. Alternative form of posta
3. post, stake

Derived terms

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

Verb

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
post	phost
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôːst/

Noun

pȏst m (Cyrillic spelling по̑ст)

1. fast, fasting

Declension

Declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	pȏst	pòstovi
genitive	pȍsta	postova
dative	postu	postovima
accusative	post	postove
vocative	poste	postovi
locative	postu	postovima
instrumental	postom	postovima

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ́st/
• Tonal orthography: pȍst

Noun

pòst m inan (genitive pôsta, uncountable)

1. fast (act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

Declension

Declension of pòst (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular
nominative	pòst
accusative	pòst
genitive	pôsta
dative	pôstu
locative	pôstu
instrumental	pôstom

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Spanish

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (computing) post

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔst

Noun

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordförande i idrottsföreningen är vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

Declension

Declension of post
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	post	posten	poster	posterna
Genitive	posts	postens	posters	posternas

Related terms

• posta
• postkontor
• postlåda
• Posten

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [post]

Noun

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonym: kürk

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Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (uncountable)

1. post, mail

Derived terms

• postfeistr (“postmaster”)
• postio (“to post”)

Etymology 2

From Latin postis.

Noun

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

Derived terms

• mynegbost (“signpost”)

Alternative forms

• postyn

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
post	bost	mhost	phost
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.