fos

fos

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Siraya terms

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

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fos	fosok
accusative	fost	fosokat
dative	fosnak	fosoknak
instrumental	fossal	fosokkal
causal-final	fosért	fosokért
translative	fossá	fosokká
terminative	fosig	fosokig
essive-formal	fosként	fosokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fosban	fosokban
superessive	foson	fosokon
adessive	fosnál	fosoknál
illative	fosba	fosokba
sublative	fosra	fosokra
allative	foshoz	fosokhoz
elative	fosból	fosokból
delative	fosról	fosokról
ablative	fostól	fosoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fosé	fosoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	foséi	fosokéi

Possessive forms of fos
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	fosom	fosaim
2nd person sing.	fosod	fosaid
3rd person sing.	fosa	fosai
1st person plural	fosunk	fosaink
2nd person plural	fosotok	fosaitok
3rd person plural	fosuk	fosaik

fos (comparative fosabb, superlative legfosabb)

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

   Synonyms: ócska, gyatra, silány

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fos	fosok
accusative	fost	fosokat
dative	fosnak	fosoknak
instrumental	fossal	fosokkal
causal-final	fosért	fosokért
translative	fossá	fosokká
terminative	fosig	fosokig
essive-formal	fosként	fosokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	fosban	fosokban
superessive	foson	fosokon
adessive	fosnál	fosoknál
illative	fosba	fosokba
sublative	fosra	fosokra
allative	foshoz	fosokhoz
elative	fosból	fosokból
delative	fosról	fosokról
ablative	fostól	fosoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	fosé	fosoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	foséi	fosokéi

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