# fos
## Translingual
### Symbol

fos
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Siraya.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Siraya terms

## Catalan
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfos]

#### Verb

fos
* first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
* first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ésser

### Etymology 2

From Latin fūsus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfos]

#### Participle

fos (feminine fosa, masculine plural fosos, feminine plural foses)
* past participle of fondre

### Etymology 3

From Latin fūsus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfɔs]

#### Noun

fos m (plural fossos)
* (Alghero) Alternative form of fossa

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *fos, from Latin fossa. Cognate with Welsh ffos (“ditch, moat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔːz/

### Noun

fos f (plural fosow)
* wall

#### Derived terms

* paper fos (“wallpaper”)
* toll y'n fos (“cash machine, ATM”)

### References

* Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* fors (rare)

### Etymology

Revived ca. 1750 through Norwegian foss, from Old Norse foss, fors. Cognate with Swedish fors, Faroese fossur, and Icelandic foss.

### Noun

fos c (singular definite fossen, plural indefinite fosser or (now rare) fosse)
* (Norway) waterfall
    Synonym: vandfald
** 1872, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, “Bjørnejægeren [The Bear Hunter]”, in Fortællinger [Tales], page 359:Den var bunden med Jærnlænker, sagde han, og endda havde den slidt over den, som var om Forbenene; han saa tydelig, der var Liv i den, og Blod gik ifra den som en Fos!It was bound with iron chains, he said, and yet it had broken the one around its front legs; he saw clearly that it was alive, and blood flowed from it like a waterfall!
** 1933, Knut Hamsun, Mens livet lever [While Life Plays], pages 276–277:Det stod et vaatt Drev og en besk Vind fra Fossen ovenfor, skjønt Solen skinnet var det Veir til Oljehyr og Sydvest.There was a wet drift and a bitter wind from the waterfall above, and even if the sun shone, there was weather for an oilskin suit and ou’wester.

#### Descendants

* Norwegian Bokmål: foss

### References

* “fos,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pačke like Northern Mansi пось (posʹ), Finnish paska and Estonian pask. For the verb sense, see also fosik.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfoʃ]
* Hyphenation: fos
* Rhymes: -oʃ

### Noun

fos (usually uncountable, plural fosok)
* (vulgar) liquid excrement

#### Declension
### Adjective

fos (comparative fosabb, superlative legfosabb)
* (slang) shitty, crappy, trashy, worthless
    Synonyms: ócska, gyatra, silány

#### Declension
### Verb

fos
* (vulgar) Alternative form of fosik (“to pass liquid excrement”)

#### Usage notes

This form also occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:
* fos (…) le, le … fos ― lefos
* and some more, see its derivatives with verbal prefixes.

#### Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):
* befos
* belefos
* kifos
* lefos
* összefos

### Further reading

* (noun sense): fos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (verb sense): fos , partly redirecting to fosik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish foss (“rest”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /fˠɔsˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /fˠʌsˠ/

### Noun

fos m (genitive singular fois) (literary)
* rest, a stop, a halt
    Synonym: sos
* a prop, buttress, wall

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
fos
vocative
a fhois
genitive
fois
dative
fos
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an fos
genitive
an fhois
dative
leis an bhfos don fhos :

#### Derived terms

* i bhfos
* lucht fois

#### Related terms

* abhus
* anois

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 foss, fos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fos”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 332
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English first.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fos/

### Adjective

fos
* first
** 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 4:4:Bot im did afi paas chuu Samieriya fos.But he had to pass through Samaria first.

### Further reading

* fos at majstro.com

## Middle English
### Noun

fos
* plural of fo

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔs/
* Rhymes: -ɔs
* Syllabification: fos

### Noun

fos
* genitive plural of fosa

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas. Compare Javanese wos, Malay beras.

### Noun

fos
* husked rice

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English force.

### Noun

fos
* force