posar

• pousar
• aposar
• apousar

Inherited from Latin pausāre.

• IPA^(key): /poˈsaɾ/,
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: po‧sar

posar (first-person singular indicative present poso, past participle posáu)

1. (transitive) to leave, put, place, drop (something that's being carried or worn)

   Synonyms: apoxar, dexar, poner

   Antonym: coyer

   Posa les caxes ende

   Leave the boxes there

   Posa esi palu

   Drop that stick

   • 1925, D. Carlos de la Concha y García Ciaño, Los sueños de probe Lín‎:

     Pero / tú, fusti tan brava / Que non dexasti que naide / En tí posara so planta.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transitive) to take off a piece of clothing

   Synonyms: quitar, desabrigar, desmangar, desatafañar

   Antonym: poner

   Posa la chaqueta que tas dientro casa

   Take off the jacket, you are indoors

3. to descend, get down

   Synonyms: baxar, amiyar

   Antonym: xubir

   Pósate d'ehí que vas cayer

   Get down from there, you'll fall

4. to alight, dismount, get off (someone else from a vehicle)

   Synonym: baxar

   Antonym: xubir

   Pósalu del coche

   Get him off the car

5. (reflexive) to get off, alight, land

   Synonym: baxar

   Antonym: xubir

   Yo pósome nesta parada

   I get off at this (bus) stop

   • 1889, Teodoro Cuesta, A mió má la d'el cielu‎:

     Entaman á esnalar les paxarines / Sortiendo del so picu les dolzures, / Se aposan n'el teyau les arandines, / Gorgutiendo sos parllas y veyures,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. (intransitive) to stop to rest, to sit or lay (especially on the ground or when travelling)

   Synonyms: aparar, descansar, alendar, aselar, reposar

   Posó y yá nun se movió más

   He/She stopped and didn't move anymore

   • 1639, Antón de Marirreguera, Pleitu ente Uvieo y Mérida poles cenices de Santa Olaya‎:

     Cuando examen les abeyes / Y posen de flor en flor , / Si les escurren s'espanten, / Vanse y non facen llabor, / Dexando el caxello vieyo / Pa buscar otro meyor.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

7. (transitive) to give birth

   Synonym: parir

   Foi posalu al hospital xeneral

   She went to give birth at the general hospital

8. to forget, to get out of one's head (an idea)

   Synonyms: escaecer, echar

   Nun soi a posar mio padre del pensamientu

   I can't forget my father from my mind

   Posa eses idees de la cabeza

   Get those ideas out of your head

9. to rest (food or liquid)

   Synonym: reposar

   Hai de dexar posar el pan enantes metelu en fornu

   You have to let the bread rest before putting it in the oven

10. to pose

    Xandru posó pa una semeya

    Xandru posed for a photo

• tar pa posalo

• aposentar
• reposar
• posa
• posada
• posaderes
• posaderu
• posadoriu
• anteposar
• posafuelles

Inherited from Old Catalan posar, from Late Latin pausāre (“halt, rest”), likely influenced in meaning by Latin pōnere ("put"; cf. inflections such as posui). Doublet of pausar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: po‧sar
• Homophone: posà (except Valencian)

posar (first-person singular present poso, first-person singular preterite posí, past participle posat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to put, to place
2. (transitive) to set
3. (transitive) to apply (medication or cosmetics)
4. (reflexive) to apply (medication or cosmetics) (to oneself)
5. (intransitive) to rest, to stay
6. (pronominal) to get, to become, to turn
7. (pronominal) to put on

• (put): metre, ficar
• (place): plaçar, emplaçar, ubicar, situar
• (stay): quedar-se

• posar-se
• posar al dia
• posar en quarantena
• reposar

• “posar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “posar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “posar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “posar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

posar m

1. indefinite plural of pose

From potz (“a well”).

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posar

1. to draw (water from a well)

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		posar			aver posat
gerund		posant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		posat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	posi	posas	posa	posam	posatz	posan
	imperfect	posavi	posavas	posava	posàvem	posàvetz	posavan
	preterite	posèri	posères	posèt	posèrem	posèretz	posèron
	future	posarai	posaràs	posarà	posarem	posaretz	posaràn
	conditional	posariái	posariás	posariá	posariam	posariatz	posarián
	conditional 2nd form1	posèra	posèras	posèra	poseram	poseratz	posèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	pose	poses	pose	posem	posetz	posen
	imperfect	posèssi	posèsses	posèsse	posèssem	posèssetz	posèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			posa		posem	posatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Auvernhàs

		simple			compound
infinitive		posar			aver posat
gerund		posant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		posat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	pose	poses	posa	posam	posatz	poson
	imperfect	posave	posaves	posava	posaviam	posaviatz	posavon
	preterite	posere	poseres	poset	posem	posetz	poseron
	future	posarai	posaràs	posará	posarem	posaretz	posarán
	conditional	posariá	posariás	posariá	posariam	posariatz	posarián
	conditional 2nd form1	posèra	posèras	posèra	poseram	poseratz	posèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	pose	poses	pose	posassiam	posassiatz	poson
	imperfect	posesse	posesses	posesse	posessiam	posessiatz	posesson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			posa		posassiam	posatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Gascon

		simple			compound
infinitive		posar			aver posat
gerund		posant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		posat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	posi	posas	posa	posam	posatz	posan
	imperfect	posavi	posavas	posava	posàvam	posàvatz	posavan
	preterite	posèi	posès	posè	posèm	posètz	posèn
	future	posarèi	posaràs	posarà	posaram	posaratz	posaràn
	conditional	posarí	posarés	posaré	posarem	posaretz	posarén
	conditional 2nd form1	posèra	posèras	posèra	poseram	poseratz	posèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	posi	poses	pose	posem	posetz	posen
	imperfect	posèssi	posèsses	posèsse	posèssem	posèssetz	posèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			posa		posem	posatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Lemosin

		simple			compound
infinitive		posar			aver posat
gerund		posant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		posat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	pose	posas	posa	posam	posatz	posan
	imperfect	posava	posavas	posava	posàvam	posàvatz	posavan
	preterite	posei	poseras	poset	posèram	posèratz	poseran
	future	posarai	posaràs	posará	posarem	posaretz	posarán
	conditional	posariá	posariàs	posariá	posariam	posariatz	posarián
	conditional 2nd form1	posèra	posèras	posèra	poseram	poseratz	posèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	pose	poses	pose	posem	posetz	posen
	imperfect	posèsse	posèsses	posèsse	posèssem	posèssetz	posèssen
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			posa		posem	posatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

    Provençau

		simple			compound
infinitive		posar			aver posat
gerund		posant			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		posat			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	pose	poses	posa	posam	posatz	posan
	imperfect	posavi	posavas	posava	posàvem	posàvetz	posavan
	preterite	posère	posères	posèt	poseriam	poseriatz	posèron
	future	posarai	posaràs	posarà	posarem	posaretz	posaràn
	conditional	posariáu	posariás	posariá	posariam	posariatz	posarián
	conditional 2nd form1	posèra	posèras	posèra	poseram	poseratz	posèran
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	pose	poses	pose	posem	posetz	posan
	imperfect	posèsse	posèsses	posèsse	posessiam	posessiatz	posèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			posa		posem	posatz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Borrowed from French poser,^[1][2] from Latin pausāre. Doublet of pousar and pausar.

• Hyphenation: po‧sar

posar (first-person singular present poso, first-person singular preterite posei, past participle posado)

1. to pose

   Maria posou para a foto. ― Maria posed for a picture.

2. Misspelling of pousar.

Inherited from Latin pausāre. Compare the borrowed doublet pausar. Cognate with English pose and pause.

• IPA^(key): /poˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: po‧sar

posar (first-person singular present poso, first-person singular preterite posé, past participle posado)

1. to pose
2. to stay or lodge in a habitation
3. to rest on a surface

• “posar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10