fos

fos

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Siraya terms

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fos (uncountable)

1. Initialism of freedom of speech.

• cub fos (etymologically unrelated)

• SOF, SFO, OFs

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

fos

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
2. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ésser

From Latin fūsus.

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

fos (feminine fosa, masculine plural fosos, feminine plural foses)

1. past participle of fondre

From Latin fūsus.

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

fos m (plural fossos)

1. (Alghero) Alternative form of fossa

fos f (plural fosow)

1. wall

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary

• fors (rare)

Revived ca. 1750 through Norwegian foss, from Old Norse foss, fors. Cognate with Swedish fors, Faroese fossur, and Icelandic foss.

fos c (singular definite fossen, plural indefinite fosser or (now rare) fosse)

1. (Norway) waterfall

   Synonym: vandfald

   • 1872, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, “Bjørnejægeren [The Bear Hunter]”, in Fortællinger [Tales], page 359:

     Den var bunden med Jærnlænker, sagde han, og endda havde den slidt over den, som var om Forbenene; han saa tydelig, der var Liv i den, og Blod gik ifra den som en Fos!

     It was bound with iron chains, he said, and yet it had broken the one around its front legs; he saw clearly that it was alive, and blood flowed from it like a waterfall!

   • 1933, Knut Hamsun, Mens livet lever [While Life Plays], pages 276–277:

     Det stod et vaatt Drev og en besk Vind fra Fossen ovenfor, skjønt Solen skinnet var det Veir til Oljehyr og Sydvest.

     There was a wet drift and a bitter wind from the waterfall above, and even if the sun shone, there was weather for an oilskin suit and ou’wester.

• Norwegian Bokmål: foss

• “fos,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pačke like Northern Mansi пош (poš), Finnish paska and Estonian pask. For the verb sense, see also fosik.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoʃ]
• Hyphenation: fos
• Rhymes: -oʃ

fos (usually uncountable, plural fosok)

2. (vulgar) liquid excrement

fos (comparative fosabb, superlative legfosabb)

1. (slang) shitty, crappy, trashy, worthless

   Synonyms: ócska, gyatra, silány

fos

2. (vulgar) Alternative form of fosik (“to pass liquid excrement”)

This form also occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• fos (…) le, le … fos ― lefos
• and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.

(With verbal prefixes):

• (noun sense): fos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (verb sense): fos , partly redirecting to fosik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Irish foss (“rest”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fˠɔsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠʌsˠ/

fos m (genitive singular fois) (literary)

1. rest, a stop, a halt

   Synonym: sos

2. a prop, buttress, wall

• i bhfos
• lucht fois

• abhus
• anois

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 foss, fos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fos”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 332
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Derived from English first.

• IPA^(key): /fos/

fos

1. first
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 4:4:

     Bot im did afi paas chuu Samieriya fos.

     But he had to pass through Samaria first.

• fos at majstro.com

fos

1. plural of fo

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔs/
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Syllabification: fos

fos

1. genitive plural of fosa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas. Compare Javanese wos, Malay beras.

fos

1. husked rice

From English force.

fos

1. force