poc

See also: põć, põč, 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): (Northern) [ˈpo̞k]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpɔk]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• 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

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “poc”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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

Declension

Declension of poc (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative poc poic vocative a phoic a phoca genitive poic poc dative poc poic forms with the definite article 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 [Irish–English Dictionary], 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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pok/
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

poc m

1. alternative form of pocc

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	poc	poccas
accusative	poc	poccas
genitive	pocces	pocca
dative	pocce	poccum

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Imitative of the sound made by high heels or the clicking of the lips. Poc-poc is attested earlier.

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^[1], Wagner Jales, page 58:

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

     The thing is, I also don't really like parties full of gay men like this. Look at that poc.

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

poc

1. bang