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See also: POD ,
pod- ,
pód ,
po'd ,
PO'd ,
pôd ,
pòd ,
pòd- ,
-pod ,
-pód , and под
Translingual
Symbol
pod
( international standards , obsolete ) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Ponares .
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ( "seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware ( “ legume seed; seed grain ” ) ) , itself possibly from Old English pād ( “ an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *paidu , from Proto-Germanic *paidō ( “ coat, smock, shirt ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- ( “ woolen clothes ” ) . If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda ( “ skirt ” ) , German dialectal Pfeid , Pfeit ( “ shirt ” ) , Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 ( paida , “ mantle, skirt ” ) , and perhaps Albanian petk ( “ gown, garment, dress, suit ” ) and Ancient Greek βαίτη ( baítē , “ goat-skin, fur-coat, tent ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
pod (plural pods )
( botany ) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas , beans , peppers ); a seedpod .
Synonyms: capsule , case , container , hull , husk , shell , seedpod , vessel
A small vehicle , especially used in emergency situations.
( obsolete , UK , dialect ) A bag ; a pouch .
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser , A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie , London: Richard Tottel , →OCLC ; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810 , →OCLC :cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod
( collective , zoology ) A group of whales , dolphins , seals , porpoises or hippopotami .
Synonym: gam
( by extension ) A group of people who regularly interact.
2016 , Joseph Henrich , chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN :These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods .
2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic :For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods .
A small section of a larger office , compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
A subsection of a prison , containing a number of inmates .
A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel .
A nicotine cartridge.
A lie-flat business or first class seat.
A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals .
A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
( informal , Internet ) Clipping of podcast .
2022 , Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi , Hachette, →ISBN :I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near.
( broadcasting ) A set of commercials to be shown together.
2014 , Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, Mary Hums, Principles and Practice of Sport Management , page 448 :These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials.
In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
( informal ) Clipping of isopod
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
seed case
Albanian: bishtajë (sq) f
Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: جلْفة f ( jəlfa ) , جلْدة f ( jəlda ) , قشْرة f ( qəšra ) ( dried )
Armenian: պատյան (hy) ( patyan ) , պատիճ (hy) ( patič )
Aromanian: pãstalji f , lividã f
Bulgarian: шушулка (bg) f ( šušulka )
Catalan: beina (ca) f , tavella (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 莢 / 荚 (zh) ( jiá )
Czech: lusk (cs) m
Danish: bælg c
Dutch: peul (nl) m
Finnish: palko (fi)
French: cosse (fr) f , gousse (fr) f ( legume seeds )
Galician: casula f , vaíña (gl) f , bagullo m , cornella f , cornello m , vaxa f
German: Schote (de) f , Hülse (de) f , Kapsel (de) f
Greek: χέδρωπας (el) m ( chédropas )
Ancient Greek: χέδρωψ m ( khédrōps )
Hindi: फली (hi) ? ( phalī )
Hungarian: hüvely (hu) , tok (hu) , gubó (hu)
Ido: shelo (io)
Indonesian: polong (id)
Ingrian: palko
Italian: buccia (it) f , baccello (it)
Japanese: さや (ja) ( saya )
Kaingang: bó
Korean: 깍지 (ko) ( kkakji )
Lao: ຝັກ ( fak )
Latin: siliqua (la) f
Latvian: pāksts f
Lithuanian: ankštis m
Luxembourgish: Scheek f
Middle English: cod
Navajo: atsʼaʼ , atsʼéézh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: belg m , skolm m or f
Nynorsk: belg m , skolm m or f
Polish: strąk (pl) m ( legume ) , laska (pl) f ( vanilla )
Portuguese: vagem (pt) f
Romanian: păstaie (ro) f
Russian: стручо́к (ru) m ( stručók )
Serbo-Croatian: màhuna (sh) f
Sicilian: vajana (scn) f
Slovene: strok m
Spanish: vaina (es) f , capi m ( unripe )
Swahili: tumba (sw)
Swedish: balja (sv) c , skida (sv) c
Tagalog: supot ng buto
Thai: ฝัก (th) ( fàk )
Turkish: kapsül (tr)
Ukrainian: стручо́к m ( stručók )
Walloon: schåfe (wa) f , hotche (wa) f , schågne (wa) f , cosse (wa) f
small vehicle
Danish: kapsel (da) c
Dutch: capsule (nl) ?
French: nacelle (fr) f
German: Rettungskapsel f , Kabine (de) f
Greek: άκατος (el) f ( ákatos )
Hungarian: kabin (hu) , mentőkabin , mentőkapszula , utazókapszula , utazókabin , kapszula (hu) , gondola (hu)
Italian: capsula (it) f , navicella (it) f
Norwegian: kapsel m * Italian: capsula (it) f ,
Polish: kapsuła (pl) f
Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
Russian: ка́псула (ru) f ( kápsula )
Sicilian: càsciula f , càxula f
Slovene: kapsula (sl) f
Spanish: cápsula de escape f
group of whales or similar mammals
See also
Verb
pod (third-person singular simple present pods , present participle podding , simple past and past participle podded )
( intransitive ) To bear or produce pods
1849 , Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither :Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence.
1939 , Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky , page 64 :David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.
2012 , Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters , →ISBN , page 219 :In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded ; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.
( transitive ) To remove peas from their case.
( transitive , intransitive ) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
1955 , Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9 , page 81 :Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.
1957 , Aviation Week - Volume 66 , page 23 :Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.
2004 , Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub , page 90 :One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded , not built in.
2006 , Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59 , page 130 :This was to be achieved by increasing the number of Lotarev D-18T engines to 8 by podding the inboard pylons on each side to take two engines (see Fig. 7).
2011 , Roger Cliff, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, David Yang, Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry , →ISBN :In June 2009, the company opened another facility in Tianjin to provide nacelle and thrust-reverser MRO services and to support engine buildup and podding work for the new Airbus A320 assembly line in the same city.
2012 , Gabriel Blue Melchizedek, The Alienvirus , →ISBN :Then i was podded by a buddie of mine, working the burrough next to mine, all humans had a blue rabbit glow around them and seemed to sleep walk out of the burrough out in to a field while a sound like; ta-ta-dah-taaa, soundeḍ ̣̪continously , where they waited while looking up in the sky.
( intransitive ) To swell or fill .
Translations
To remove peas from their case
References
“pod ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Anagrams
Cebuano
Pronunciation
Adverb
pod
( focus ) also ; too
( after a negative ) either
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech pod .
Pronunciation
Preposition
pod
under ( direction, + accusative case )
Potřebuju se dostat pod ten most. ― I need to get under that bridge.
below , under ( location, + instrumental case )
Synonym: pode
Antonym: nad
Kočka leží pod stolem. ― The cat is under the table.
Further reading
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
pod
superseded spelling of pód
Old Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
Pronunciation
Preposition
pod
denotes movement ; to under , to underneath
denotes movement up , upward
denotes movement down , below , downward
denotes duration to , until ; by
denotes amount under ; less than
denotes inferiority sub , less than
denotes subordination to under
according to
as a result of
for , to ( an end, an aim, a purpose )
denotes location near ; under , underneath
denotes relation of items worn under ; in , dressed in
denotes subordination under
denotes duration during ; in
denotes elapsing of time in ; after
denotes period of someone's rule during
denotes amount up to
denotes inferiority sub , less than
creates an adverb from a noun.
denotes form or shape under ; in the form of
denotes instrumentality through , with , by means of
used with documents, contracts, etc. on the basis of
according to
denotes protection, guidance, or watching under
denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under , on pain of
despite , in spite of
Descendants
References
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ . First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Preposition
pod
denotes location ; under , underneath
denotes near location ; near ; under , at
denotes comitative location ; with
denotes time when something took place ; during
denotes sequence in time ; after
Synonym: po
used with documents, contracts, etc. on the basis of ; as a result of
despite , against
denotes form or shape under ; in the form of
denotes subordination under
denotes period of someone's rule during
denotes protection, guidance, or watching under
denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under , on pain of
denotes movement ; to under , to underneath
denotes movement ; to ; toward
denotes preceding time just before
The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
denotes following time just after
denotes source of a given right or authority under
The meaning of this term is uncertain.
1956 , Jerzy Woronczak, editor, Teksty polskie w rękopisie nr 43 Biblioteki Kapitulnej we Wrocławiu z połowy XV wieku , Silesia , page 112r :Ibant apostoli gaudentes a conspectu, pod oblicze (pro od oblicza?), concilli (Act 5, 41)
Descendants
References
Boryś, Wiesław (2005 ) “pod ”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000 ) “pod ”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
B. Sieradzka-Baziur , Ewa Deptuchowa , Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015 ), “pod, pode ”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN , →ISBN
Polish
pod
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish pod .
Pronunciation
Preposition
pod
denotes location ; under , underneath
Synonyms: popod , poniżej
Antonyms: nad , ponad
pod ziemią ― underground
denotes movement ; to under , to underneath
Antonyms: na , nad
denotes movement against ; against
Antonym: z
pod wiatr ― against the wind
Nie płyń pod prąd! ― Don't swim against the current!
denotes near location ; near
Synonyms: popod , blisko , nad , niedaleko , nieopodal , obok , opodal , przy , u stóp , w pobliżu
Mieszkała pod Warszawą ― She lived near Warsaw.
denotes movement to a near location ; toward
Synonyms: popod , nad
Antonym: spod
denotes protection, guidance, or watching under
denotes motion towards protection, guidance, or watching to under
Antonym: spod
denotes cause under ; under
pod przymusem ― under duress
pod wpływem ― under the influence of
denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under , on pain of
denotes name of object ; under
pod tytułem ― under the title of
denotes location, particularly of addresses ; at
denotes movement, particularly of addresses ; to
denotes instrumentality or cause ; because of , with
Synonym: spod
pod piórem ― by (an author)
denotes recipient ; to , aimed at
( colloquial ) denotes amount less than ; under
( colloquial ) denotes object of eating immediately after drinking
( colloquial ) denotes cause of celebration
Synonym: z okazji
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), pod is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 157 times in scientific texts, 153 times in news, 109 times in essays, 165 times in fiction, and 84 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 668 times, making it the 70th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990 ) “pod ”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 381
Further reading
pod in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
pod in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Maria Renata Mayenowa , Stanisław Rospond , Witold Taszycki , Stefan Hrabec , Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023 ) “pod, pode ”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku , (Can we date this quote?)
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814 ) “pod ”, in Słownik języka polskiego
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861 ) “pod ”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
A. Kryński , W. Niedźwiedzki , editors (1908 ), “pod ”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 330
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic подъ ( podŭ ) , from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpod/
Audio ( male voice ) : (file )
Audio ( female voice ) : (file )
Rhymes: -od
Hyphenation: pod
Noun
pod n (plural poduri )
bridge
attic
( dated ) street paved with wood
Declension
Derived terms
See also
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
Pronunciation
Noun
pȍd m (Cyrillic spelling по̏д )
floor
pasti na pod ― to fall to the floor
ground
Declension
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
poda ( enclitic pronominal form )
Pronunciation
Preposition
pȍd (Cyrillic spelling по̏д )
under , beneath (with change of position, answering the question kùda )
Antonyms: ȉznad , nȁd
S(j)ela je pod stablo . ― She sat down under the tree.
Pao je pod vlak . ― He fell under the train.
under , beneath (stationary, answering the question gdjȅ /gdȅ )
Antonyms: ȉznad , nȁd
pod suncem ― under the sun
Ona s(j)edi pod stablom . ― She is sitting under the tree.
under , beneath (being in a particular condition)
biti pod sumnjom ― to be under suspicion
biti pod pritiskom ― to be under pressure
biti pod dojmom ― to be under impression
pod oružjem ― under arms
biti pod nadzorom ― to be under supervision/surveillance
biti pod nečijom zaštitom ― to be under someone's protection
biti pod naglaskom ― to be accented (stressed), to be under the accent (stress)
pisati pod pseudonimom ― to write under the pen name, pseudonymously
biti pod zakletvom ― to be under oath
near , toward , in (temporal, with nouns denoting a final temporal segment)
pod jesen ― toward fall
pod kraj ― near the end
pod starost ― in one's old age
during (temporal)
pod odmorom ― during the (school) break
pod pauzom ― during the (job) break
pod satom ― during the (school) lesson
pod vladavinom ― during the reign of
as , instead of , in lieu of
pokušati prodati mrkvu pod rotkvu ― to try selling carrot as radish
miscellaneous idiomatic meanings
baciti pod noge ― to reject, throw away
nebu pod oblake ― far away
pod uv(j)etom/uslovom da ― under the condition of, on the condition that
pod izgovorom ― under the pretext
pod Zagrebom ― near Zagreb
pod Velebitom ― at the foot of Velebit, on the foothills of Velebit
pod korovom ― covered/overgrown with weed
ništa pod (milim) bogom ― absolutely nothing
pod kontrolom (with genitive) ― under the control (of)
pod tim(e) mislim ― by that I mean
biti pod antibioticima ― to be on antibiotics
pod pravim kutom ― perpendicular
To je pod moranje . ― That is obligatory.
Silesian
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish pod .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpɔt/
Rhymes: -ɔt
Syllabification: pod
Preposition
pod
denotes location ; under , underneath
denotes movement ; to under , to underneath
denotes near location ; near ; under , at
denotes movement ; to ; toward
denotes name of object ; under
pod tytułym ― under the title of
denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under , on pain of
Further reading
pod in dykcjonorz.eu
pod in silling.org
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
Pronunciation
Preposition
pod (+ instrumental )
below
Antonym: nad
Further reading
Slovene
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ .
Pronunciation
Noun
pȍd m inan
floor (lower part of a room)
Synonym: tla
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template .
Derived terms
Further reading
“pod ”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025
Volapük
Noun
pod (nominative plural pods )
apple
Declension
1 status as a case is disputed2 in later, non-classical Volapük only