pis

See also: Pis, PiS, piś, piš, piș, -pis, pi·š, and Piś

English

Noun

pis

  1. plural of pi

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *peitsa, from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k̑- (“to hate, be hostile”). Close to Lithuanian piktas (“evil”), Latin piget (“he is annoying”), Old English fāh (“hostile”), English foe.

Adjective

pis m (feminine pise)

  1. dirty

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic пис
Roman pis
Perso-Arabic پیس‎

Etymology

Probably from Persian پیس‎ (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic)[1], whence also Turkish pis (“filthy”), and Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pis]

Adjective

pis (comparative daha pis, superlative ən pis)

  1. bad
    Vəziyyətimiz çox pisdir
    Our situation is very bad
    Synonym: yaman
    Antonym: yaxşı
  2. naughty, dirty
    Gecə yatmamışdan əvvəl pis-pis kinolara baxıblar yəqin. [2]
    They must have been watching some naughty movies before they went to sleep
Derived terms
  • pislik (“misdoing, evil, harm”)
  • pisləmək (“to condemn”)
  • pisləşmək (“to get worse, to deteriorate”)

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish piso.

Pronunciation

Noun

pis m (plural pisos)

  1. floor (storey)
  2. flat (apartment)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪs/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

pis m (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar) piss
  2. (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

Verb

pis

  1. first-person singular present indicative of pissen
  2. imperative of pissen

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/
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Etymology 1

From Old French pis, peis, from Latin pēius, from pēior.

Adverb

pis

  1. worse
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French piz, peiz (“chest”), inherited from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg (“breast”). The original meaning of "chest" underwent a semantic shift, as the word was gradually replaced by poitrine in that sense.

Noun

pis m (plural pis)

  1. udder

Etymology 3

Syncope of puis.

Alternative forms

Conjunction

pis

  1. (Quebec, Acadian, Louisiana, colloquial) and, besides.
    • 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 78:
      "Je suis habituée, protesta-t-elle. Pis j'ai pas besoin d'un père pour me faire la morale." — I'm used to it, she protested. And I don't need a father to lecture me

Anagrams

Further reading

Irish

piseanna

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʲɪʃ/

Noun

pis f (genitive singular pise, nominative plural piseanna)

  1. pea

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pis phis bpis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Lithuanian

Verb

pis

  1. third-person singular future tense of pisti.
  2. third-person plural future tense of pisti.

Norman

Noun

pis m pl

  1. plural of pi

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pis/

Noun

pis m (plural pis)

  1. pee, wee

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English fish

Noun

pis

  1. fish
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:21 (translation here):
      Orait God i mekim kamap ol traipela pis na snek bilong solwara, na ol arapela kain samting bilong solwara, na ol kain kain pisin.
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Turkish

Adjective

pis (comparative daha pis, superlative en pis)

  1. dirty

Synonyms

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