pis

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

English

Noun

pis

  1. plural of pi

Anagrams

Ainu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pis]

Noun

pis

  1. shore, beach
    pis un ota
    sand on the beach
    pis ta san.
    go to the beach.

References

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیس (pis, dirty, filthy, foul).[1]

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

References

  1. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363

Further reading

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

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic пис
Abjad پیس

Etymology

Probably from archaic Persian پیس (stained, wrinkled, leprous),[1] whence also Turkish pis (filthy), and Northern Kurdish pîs (dirty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pis]
  • (file)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lezgi: пис (pis)

References

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from pisar.

Pronunciation

Noun

pis m (plural pisos)

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

Further reading

Danish

Noun

pis

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

Interjection

pis

  1. dammit

Synonyms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

pis m (uncountable)

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

Descendants

Verb

pis

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

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/
  • (file)
  • Homophones: pi, pie, pies

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

pis

  1. worse
Derived terms

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)

  1. udder

Etymology 3

Syncope of puis.

Alternative forms

Conjunction

pis

  1. (Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, New England, 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.’

Further reading

Anagrams

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

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

Derived terms

References

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pis

  1. call used for cats

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pis m (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) pee, wee
    Synonym: orina

Derived terms

Further reading

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),[1] whence also Azerbaijani pis (bad, dirty), Northern Kurdish pîs (dirty) and Armenian փիս (pʻis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pis/
  • (file)

Adjective

pis

  1. dirty
    Synonym: kirli

Declension

Derived terms

References

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