poc

See also: POC, PoC, poć, poç, póc, and pöç

Translingual

Symbol

poc

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Poqomam.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Poqomam terms

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin paucus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔk]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

Determiner

poc (feminine poca, masculine plural pocs, feminine plural poques)

1. little, not much
2. few, not many
3. a few, not a lot of

Synonyms

• una mica de

Derived terms

• a poc a poc
• apocar
• d'aquí poc
• poquet

 

Adverb

poc

1. little, not much
2. rarely, not often

Further reading

• “poc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish boc, pocc, poc (“he-goat”), from Old English bucca.

Noun

poc m (genitive singular poic, nominative plural poic)

1. buck (male deer, goat, etc.)
2. butt (as from goat)
3. (hurling) puck, stroke of stick, stroke of play
4. puck (of cattle)

Declension

Declension of poc (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative poc poic vocative a phoic a phoca genitive poic poc dative poc poic forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an poc na poic genitive an phoic na bpoc dative leis an bpoc don phoc leis na poic

Derived terms

Derived terms

• poc aosán (“sudden, mysterious bout of illness”)
• poc mearaidh (“touch of insanity”)
• poc tinnis (“bout of illness”)
• (buck):
  • poc gabhair, pocán (“billy goat”)
  • poc fionn (“male fallow deer”)
  • pocléim (“buckjump”)
• (hurling):
  • poc báire (“stroke”)
  • poc cúil (“puckout”)
  • poc sleasa (“sideline cut, side puck”)
  • poc saor (“free, free puck”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of poc

radical	lenition	eclipsis
poc	phoc	bpoc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “poc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Imitative of the sound made by high heels.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ki/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ki/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ke/

• Rhymes: -ɔki

Noun

poc f (plural pocs)

1. (Brazil, gay slang, colloquial) an effeminate gay man
   • 2021 September 6, Wagner Jales, Príncipes Encantados‎, Wagner Jales, page 58:

     Só que eu também não gosto de festa tão cheia de veado assim. Olha aquela poc.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

poc

1. bang