poza

From pozo, from Old Galician-Portuguese poço, from Latin puteus. Cognate with Portuguese poça and Spanish poza.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoθa̝/, (western) /ˈposa̝/

poza m (plural pozas)

1. pool in a river
   • 1402, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., p. 167:

     et mays uos aforamos a noſa leyra da Ujna Uella que jaz ſobre lo canal commo uay topar enna poça de Caalles

     and we also lend you our field of Viña Vella, which is by the channel, as it comes into the pool of Canles

   Synonyms: corgo, laga

2. puddle

   Synonyms: chagorza, porraca, chanca, trolleira, pozarca, laguceiro, lumedeiro

3. tidal pool

• empozar
• furapozas
• Poza

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “poça”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “poza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “poza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “poza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese esposa.

poza

1. wife

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• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Syllabification: po‧za
• Homophone: poza-

Univerbation of po +‎ za.^[1] First attested in the 16th century.^[2] Compare Kashubian pòza and Silesian poza.

poza

1. denotes an area not within; beyond, out of, outside of [with instrumental]

   Nie namierzymy go. Jest poza zasięgiem. ― We cannot trace him. He's out of range.

2. denotes movement to an area not within; to beyond, to out of, to outside of [with accusative]

   Piłka wyleciała poza boisko. ― The ball flew out of the pitch.

3. denotes exclusion; besides, outside of; except [with instrumental]

   Synonyms: oprócz, prócz, z wyjątkiem

   Nikt poza tobą tego nie lubi. ― No one besides you likes this.

4. denotes inclusion; besides, outside of [with instrumental]

   Synonyms: obok, oprócz, prócz

   Poza polskim też znam niemiecki. ― Besides Polish I also know German.

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), poza is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 41 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 33 times in essays, 26 times in fiction, and 23 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 144 times, making it the 406th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[3]

Borrowed from French pose.

poza f

1. pose, posture

   Synonym: postawa

• poza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• poza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Paweł Kupiszewski (03.06.2020), “POZA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “poza”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “poza”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “poza”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 899

Borrowed from French poser.

• IPA^(key): /poˈza/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: po‧za

a poza (third-person singular present pozează, past participle pozat) 1st conjugation

1. (intransitive) to pose (have one’s portrait made or taken)
2. (transitive, informal) to take a picture of someone

   Synonym: (formal) fotografia

3. (intransitive, literary) to pose (to affect a false way of being) [with în ‘as’]
4. (transitive, technical) to place, position

• pozar

• poză

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.za/
• Rhymes: -oza
• Hyphenation: po‧za

poza f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of poză (“photo; pose”)

• “poza”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1980), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[2], volume 8, part 4, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 1178

From pozo, from Latin puteus (“pit, well”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoθa/ [ˈpo.θa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈposa/ [ˈpo.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -osa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: po‧za

poza f (plural pozas)

1. puddle
2. backwater

• “poza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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-poza (infinitive kupoza)

1. Causative form of -poa: to comfort, soothe, cool off