pousar

• IPA^(key): /pouˈsaɾ/,

pousar

1. (Western Asturias) Alternative form of posar

• apousar

From Old Galician-Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Cognate of pausar, a borrowed doublet.

Compare Portuguese pousar and Spanish posar.

• IPA^(key): /powˈsaɾ/

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. (intransitive) to land, alight
2. (transitive) to place
3. (intransitive) to lodge, stay, overnight
   • 1275, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 259:

     este Johan Arias foynos pousar enun nosso lugar, que chaman Santome de Sumeo, cum omes e cum armas e filounolo forçadamente e sen dereyto e e morou y un mes e tomounolo e filounos quanto y achou

     this Xoán Arias came to stay in a hamlet of us, called Santomé de Sumeo, with men and weapons, and he took it from us forcibly and lawlessly, and he dwelt there for a month and he took and had everything he found there

4. (intransitive) to stop

   Pousa, fedello! ― Stop it, brat!

5. (transitive) to unload

• pousada
• pousadoiro
• Pousadoiro
• pousafoles
• Pousiño
• Pouso
• repousar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pousar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pousar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pousar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pousar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “pousar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pousar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin pausāre.

• IPA^(key): /pou̯ˈzaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

pousar

1. to place
2. to lodge, stay, overnight

• Galician: pousar
• Portuguese: pousar, poisar

• Universo Cantigas - "pousar"

• poisar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pousar, from Latin pausāre. Doublet of pausar and posar. Compare Galician pousar and Spanish posar. Its fourth sense may be a Spanish influence from posar.

• Hyphenation: pou‧sar

pousar (first-person singular present pouso, first-person singular preterite pousei, past participle pousado)

1. to put down, lay down
2. to place
3. to land, alight
4. (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) to sleep over

   Pousei no Pedro ontem e nós acabamos ficando. ― I slept over at Peter's last night and we ended up making out.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pousar.