posar

• pousar
• aposar
• apousar

Inherited from Latin pausāre.

• IPA^(key): /poˈsaɾ/, [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)
   • 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.

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   Synonyms: apoxar, dexar, poner

   Antonym: coyer

   Posa les caxes ende

   Leave the boxes there

   Posa esi palu

   Drop that stick

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
   • 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,

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   Synonym: baxar

   Antonym: xubir

   Yo pósome nesta parada

   I get off at this (bus) stop

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

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   Synonyms: aparar, descansar, alendar, aselar, reposar

   Posó y yá nun se movió más

   He/She stopped and didn't move anymore

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) [puˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [poˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [poˈzaɾ]
• 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, Valencian, 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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get, to become, to turn
7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) 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)

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/ [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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014