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English

Wooden posts.

Alternative forms

• poast (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??st/
• (General American) enPR: pōst, IPA^(key): /po?st/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [po?st]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

百度 提案指出，这些现象导致农惠农资金作用大打折扣，也引发群众的不满，影响了政府形象。

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. OED indicates there's more to this.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.

   ram a post into the ground

2. (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
3. A pole in a battery.
4. (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
5. (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
6. (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
7. (sports) A goalpost.
   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC?^[1]:

     But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post.

8. A location on a basketball court near the basket.
9. (obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
   • 1600, Samuel Rowlands, The knauve of clubs:

     when God ?ends coyne,
     I will di?charge your poa?t

10. The vertical part of a crochet stitch.

Derived terms

• ale post
• A-post
• back post
• bedpost
• behind post
• be left at the post
• B-post
• C-post
• deaf as a post
• doorpost
• D-post
• dumb as a post
• far post
• fencepost
• from pillar to post
• from post to pillar
• gatepost
• goalpost
• gradient post
• guarding post
• high-post
• hitching post
• jack post
• king post
• knight of the post
• lamppost
• lamp post
• listening post
• low post
• low post area
• milepost
• mooring post
• near post
• newel post
• observation post
• pencil-post bed
• pip at the post
• pip to the post
• pissing post
• plucking post
• poster
• post hanger
• posthole
• post mill
• post mold
• post oak
• post parade
• post position
• post prison
• post time
• powder-post
• powder-post beetle
• prick post
• queen post
• quoin post
• reaching-post
• rubbing post
• Samson post
• scratching post
• seat post
• signal post
• signalpost
• signpost
• snubbing post
• snub post
• sound post
• starting post
• strainer post
• swinging post
• telegraph post
• tool post
• travelling post office
• turning post
• warping post
• whipping post
• whistle post
• winning post

Translations

long dowel or plank protruding from the ground

• Albanian: shtyll? (sq) f
• Arabic: ?????? m (?amūd)
• Assamese: ????? (kh?ta)
• Azerbaijani: sütun (az), dir?k (az)
• Bashkir: ба?ана (ba?ana); ба?ан (ba?an) (Eastern Bashkir)
• Belarusian: слуп m (slup)
• Breton: post (br) m, peul (br) m
• Bulgarian: стълб (bg) m (stǎlb)
• Burmese: ????? (my) (tuing)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柱子 (zh) (zhùzi)

• Czech: sloup (cs) m
• Danish: stolpe (da) c
• Dutch: paal (nl) m
• Esperanto: fosto
• Estonian: tulp, post (et)
• Finnish: tolppa (fi)
• French: poteau (fr) m
• German: Pfosten (de) m
• Greek: στ?λο? (el) m (stylos), π?σσαλο? (el) m (pássalos), κολ?να (el) f (kolóna), δοκ?ρι (el) n (dokári)
• Hawaiian: kulu
• Hindi: ???? (hi) m (khambhā), ????? (hi) m (stambh)
• Hungarian: oszlop (hu)
• Ilocano: adigi
• Irish: cuaille m
• Isnag: adixi
• Italian: palo (it) m, pilastro (it) m
• Japanese: 柱 (ja) (はしら, hashira)
• Javanese: saka
• Kazakh: ба?ана (ba?ana)
• Khmer: ?????? (km) (bɑngkool), ??? (km) (sɑsɑɑ)
• Korean: ?? (ko) (gidung)
• Kyrgyz: столб (ky) (stolb), т?рк?к (ky) (türkük), устун (ky) (ustun), карагай (ky) (karagay), багана (ky) (bagana)
• Lao: ????? (sa dom), ???? (lo) (sao)
• Latin: pālus m, stipes m, cippus m
• Latvian: stabs m
• Lithuanian: stulpas m
• Macedonian: дирек m (direk), столб m (stolb), кол m (kol)
• Malay: tiang (ms), turus (ms)
• Malayalam: ???????? (ml) (pōs???), ?????? (ml) (ku??i)
• Mansaka: arigi
• Maori: turi (mi), pou, turu, tuturu, koteo, himu
• Mongolian: багана (mn) (bagana)
• Norwegian:

  Bokm?l: stolpe m

  Nynorsk: stolpe m

• Occitan: pal (oc) m, postèl m
• Old Javanese: saka
• Ottoman Turkish: ???? (direk), ???? (mertek)
• Persian: ???? (fa) (sotun)
• Plautdietsch: Pol m
• Polish: s?up (pl) m
• Portuguese: mour?o (pt) m (of a fence), estaca (pt) f (small), poste (pt) m (big)
• Romanian: stalp (ro) m
• Russian: столб (ru) m (stolb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стуб m

  Roman: stub (sh) m

• Shan: ???? (shn) (lák)
• Slovak: st?p m
• Slovene: steber (sl) m, stolp (sl) m
• Spanish: poste (es) m
• Swedish: p?le (sv) c, stolpe (sv) c, grindstolpe c
• Tahitian: turu
• Tajik: сутун (tg) (sutun)
• Tatar: багана (tt) (ba?ana)
• Thai: ????? (th) (sà-dom), ??? (th) (sǎo), ???? (th) (làk)
• Tocharian B: esale
• Turkish: direk (tr), kaz?k (tr), sütun (tr)
• Turkmen: sütün, gazyk
• Ukrainian: стовп m (stovp)
• Urdu: ???? (sutūn)
• Uyghur: ????? (tirek)
• Uzbek: ustun (uz)
• Vietnamese: c?t (vi), tr? (vi)

(construction) stud; two-by-four

• Finnish: kakkosnelonen (fi)
• Portuguese: sarrafo (pt) m, ripa (pt) f
• Swedish: regel (sv) c, stolpe (sv) c

pole in a battery

• Bulgarian: полюс (bg) m (poljus)
• Dutch: pool (nl)
• Finnish: napa (fi)
• Greek: π?λο? (el) m (pólos)
• Swedish: pol (sv) c

piece inserted in root canal

• Bulgarian: пълнеж (bg) m (pǎlne?)

(vocal music, eps. a cappella) prolonged final melody note

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

goalpost (sports)

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: ???????? f

• Bulgarian: греда (bg) f (greda)
• Danish: stolpe (da) c, m?lstolpe c
• Dutch: doelpaal (nl), paal (nl)
• Finnish: tolppa (fi)
• German: Pfosten (de) m
• Portuguese: trave (pt)
• Russian: шта?нга (ru) f (?tánga)
• Swedish: stolpe (sv) c

location on a basketball court

• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
• Catalan: pivot (ca) m or f
• German: Post (de) m
• Portuguese: piv? (pt) m or f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} pa?tas (lt)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} poste (es) m, ^{(please verify)} estaca (es) f

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.

   Post no bills.

   w:Martin Luther posted his ninety five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg.

2. (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.

   The company posted record profits this quarter.

   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:

     Although New York City preceded many large cities in posting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound.

   • 2024 August 23, @jbodineh, Twitter?^[2]:

     He’s saying if you can’t win, quitting is okay? What would the PGA say if golfers quit the tournament after posting a high score?

3. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.

   to post someone for cowardice

   • 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:

     On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
     Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.

4. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 18:

     You have not po?ted your Books the?e Ten years; hovv is it po??ible for a Man of Bu?ine?s to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?

5. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • 1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273:

     thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day

6. (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
   1. (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).

      Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

   2. (law) To pay bail.

      to post bail

      • 2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo, →ISBN:

        For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail.

      • 2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz, Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:

        Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.

      • 2006 05, Robert Perry, Dirty Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:

        Carmen posted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.

      • 1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker, Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 201:

        When you post bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.

Derived terms

• poster
• post the coal
• post up

Descendants

• Chinese: po

Translations

hang a notice in a conspicuous manner

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: зака?чам обя?ва (zaká?am objáva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: alglui, afi?i
• Finnish: laittaa esille, ripustaa n?ht?ville
• French: afficher (fr)
• German: anbringen (de)
• Khmer: ????????? (bet prɑkaah)
• Polish: wywiesi? (pl), afiszowa? (pl)
• Russian: приколо?ть (ru) pf (prikolót?), прика?лывать (ru) pf (prikályvat?), вы?весить (ru) pf (vyvesit?), выве?шивать (ru) impf (vyvé?ivat?)
• Spanish: colgar (es), fijar (es)
• Swedish: ansl? (sv), s?tta upp (sv), spika (sv), skriva (sv)
• Tagalog: magpaskil
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: вив??шувати impf (vyví?uvaty)
• Vietnamese: dán (vi)

hold up to public blame or reproach

• Bulgarian: злепоставям (bg) impf (zlepostavjam), злепоставя (bg) pf (zlepostavja), компрометирам (bg) impf or pf (komprometiram), подбивам името impf (podbivam imeto), подбия името pf (podbija imeto), подривам достойнството impf (podrivam dostojnstvoto), подрина достойнството pf (podrina dostojnstvoto)
• German: anprangern (de)
• Vietnamese: y?t (vi)

send to an electronic forum

• Bulgarian: по?ствам (bg) impf (póstvam)
• Esperanto: afi?i
• Finnish: postata (fi)
• French: poster (fr)
• German: posten (de), hochladen (de)
• Greek: αναρτ? (el) (anartó), δημοσιε?ω (el) (dimosiévo)
• Interlingua: postar
• Irish: postáil
• Italian: postare (it), pubblicare (it)
• Japanese: 書き込む (ja) (かきこむ, kakikomu)
• Macedonian: об?ави pf (objavi)
• Norman: poster
• Polish: publikowa? (pl) impf, opublikowa? (pl) pf, postowa? (pl) impf (slang)
• Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
• Russian: по?стить (ru) impf (póstit?), запо?стить (ru) pf (zapóstit?)
• Spanish: postear (es)
• Swahili: posti
• Swedish: posta (sv), skriva (sv), skicka (sv)
• Ukrainian: роби?ти до?пис impf (robyty dópys), допи?сувати impf (dopysuvaty)
• Vietnamese: ??ng (vi)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route. [16th–17th c.]
2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

   a stage or railway post

3. A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
   • 1865, David Field Rennie, M.D., Peking and the Pekingese?^[3], volume II, London: John Murray, page 42:

     September 6th.-The English mail of the 10th of July arrived to-day, and while Mr. Hart was at the Foreign Office engaged on business with Wan-se-ang and Hang-Ki, he received his Shang-hai letters, one of which contained the news of the recapture by the Imperial forces of the cities of Woo-tu and Nan-ching, two important rebel posts.

4. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1599, George Abbot, Geography, or a Brief Description of the Whole World:

     in certain ?et places there be alwaies fresh Po?ts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others

   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 152:

     I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
     Receiving them from such a worthless post.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin, published 2012, page 199:

     information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

5. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation. [from 17th c.]

   sent via post; parcel post

   • 1707, Alexander Pope, Letter VII (to Mr. Wycherly), November 11

     I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

6. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address. [from 17th c.]
   • 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:

     Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.

8. A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc. [from 20th c.]
9. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

   Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

10. (obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], line 273:

      And then in post he came from Mantua.

11. (obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.
    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume 1, page 136:

      there he held the office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

Derived terms

• block post
• blog post
• book post
• border post
• borderpost
• bottom-post
• by return of post
• command post
• Cossack post
• crosspost
• customs post
• dark post
• Dease Lake Post
• flounce post
• folio post
• ghost post
• hardship post
• in the post
• Job's-post
• last post
• make post
• outpost
• parcel post
• penny post
• pigeon post
• pinned post
• pneumatic post
• post and pair
• post bag
• postbag
• post box
• postbox
• postboy
• post-captain
• postcard
• post chaise
• postcode
• post code
• post count
• post day
• post-free
• postgasm
• postgirl
• posthaste
• post-haste
• posthorn
• post horn
• posthorse
• post-horse
• posthouse
• post-house
• postlady
• post lady
• postman
• postmaster
• post note
• postoffice
• post office
• postrider
• post-rider
• post town
• postwoman
• pre-to-post
• registered post
• sentry post
• side-post
• staging post
• stick to one's post
• sticky post
• take post
• top-post
• trading post

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пост (post) (Internet)
• → Chinese: po, PO

  Cantonese: pou¹

  Mandarin: pōu

  Min Nan: pho?

• → French: post
• → Irish: post
• → Italian: post
• → Malay: pos
• → Maori: pōhi
• → Polish: post
• → Portuguese: post
• → Russian: пост (post)
• → Scottish Gaelic: post
• → Spanish: post
• → Swahili: posta
• → Welsh: post

Translations

station, outpost

• Bulgarian: станция (bg) f (stancija)
• German: Posten (de) m
• Hindi: ???? (hi) f (caukī)
• Swedish: post (sv) c

method of delivering mail

• Albanian: post? (sq) f
• Amharic: ??? (posta), ???? (d?bdabe)
• Arabic: ?????? m (barīd)

  Egyptian Arabic: ???? m (barīd), ????? f (bus?a)

  South Levantine Arabic: ???? m (barīd), ????? f (bos?a)

• Armenian: ???? (hy) (p?ost)
• Azerbaijani: po?ta, yam
• Belarusian: по?шта f (pó?ta)
• Bulgarian: по?ща (bg) f (pó?ta)
• Catalan: correu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郵件 / 邮件 (zh) (yóujiàn)

• Czech: po?ta (cs) f
• Danish: post (da) c
• Dutch: post (nl) f
• Estonian: post (et)
• Finnish: posti (fi)
• French: courrier (fr), poste (fr) f
• Fula:

  Adlam: ??????????

  Latin: posta

• Georgian: ????? (pos?a)
• German: Post (de) f
• Greek: ταχυδρομε?ο (el) n (tachydromeío)
• Hebrew: ???? \ ?????? (he) m (dóar)
• Hindi: ??? (hi) f (?āk)
• Hungarian: posta (hu)
• Icelandic: póstur (is) m
• Ingrian: posti
• Italian: posta (it) f
• Japanese: 郵便 (ja) (ゆうびん, yūbin)
• Kazakh: пошта (po?ta)
• Khmer: ????????? (km) (praysa?nii)
• Korean: ??(郵便) (ko) (upyeon)
• Kyrgyz: почта (ky) (pocta)
• Lao: ?????? (pai sa nī)
• Latvian: pasts m
• Lithuanian: pa?tas (lt) m
• Macedonian: пошта f (po?ta)
• Malay: pos (ms)
• Maori: pōhi
• Mòcheno: post f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шуудан (mn) (?uudan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokm?l: post (no) m

  Nynorsk: post m

• Pashto: ??? m (?āg), ????? (ps) f (posta)
• Persian: ??? (fa) (post)
• Plautdietsch: Post f
• Polish: poczta (pl) f
• Portuguese: correio (pt) m, postagem (pt) f
• Romanian: po?t? (ro) f
• Russian: по?чта (ru) f (pó?ta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по?шта f

  Roman: p??ta (sh) f

• Slovak: po?ta f
• Slovene: po?ta (sl) f
• Spanish: correo (es) m
• Swedish: post (sv) c
• Tajik: почта (tg) (po?ta)
• Thai: ???????? (th) (bprai-sà-nii)
• Turkish: posta (tr)
• Turkmen: po?ta
• Ukrainian: по?шта (uk) f (pó?ta)
• Urdu: ??? f (?āk)
• Uyghur: ????? (pochta)
• Uzbek: pochta (uz)
• Vietnamese: b?u ?i?n (vi), b?u chính (vi)
• Yiddish: ?????? f or n (post)

individual message in a forum

• Armenian: ???????? (hy) (hanragir)
• Azerbaijani: payla??m
• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post), мне?ние (bg) n (mnénie) (in forums)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帖子 (zh) (tiězi)

• Esperanto: afi?o
• Finnish: viesti (fi), postaus (fi)
• French: message (fr) m, billet (fr) m
• German: Beitrag (de) m
• Greek: αν?ρτηση (el) f (anártisi)
• Hungarian: poszt (hu)
• Indonesian: kiriman (id)
• Irish: postáil f
• Japanese: 書き込み (ja) (かきこみ, kakikomi), カキコ (kakiko) (slang)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} ??? (gesimul)
• Malay: kiriman
• Polish: post (pl) m, wypowied? (pl) f, wiadomo?? (pl) f, wpis (pl) m
• Portuguese: post (pt) m, publica??o (pt)
• Russian: сообще?ние (ru) n (soob??énije), (colloquial) пост (ru) m (post)
• Swedish: postning c, meddelande (sv) n, inl?gg (sv) n
• Thai: ????? (póos)
• Turkish: payla??m (tr)
• Ukrainian: пов?до?млення n (povidómlennja), пост m (post), до?пис m (dópys)
• Vietnamese: bài ??ng

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier. [from 16th c.]
   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:

     Beyond Cologne we descended to the plain of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way […].

2. To travel quickly; to hurry. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], line 1:

     Post speedily to my lord your husband.

   • c. 1652, John Milton, "On His Blindness", line 13

     thousand at his bidding speed,
     And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
     They also serve who only stand and wait.

3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service. [from 19th c.]

   Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day.

4. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting. [from 19th c.]
5. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc. [from 20th c.]

   I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

Derived terms

• poster
• post off

Descendants

• → Finnish: postata

Translations

send mail

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: пращам (bg) (pra?tam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 寄 (gei³)

  Mandarin: 發 / 发 (zh) (fā), 寄 (zh) (jì)

• Dutch: posten (nl), op de post doen, versturen (nl), verzenden (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: l?hett?? (fi), postittaa (fi)
• French: poster (fr), mettre à la poste
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schicken (de)
• Greek: ταχυδρομ? (el) (tachydromó)
• Hungarian: felad (hu), elküld (hu)
• Interlingua: postar
• Khmer: ??????????? (p?a? sɑmbot)
• Maori: pōhi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wys?a? (pl) pf, wysy?a? (pl) impf
• Portuguese: postar (pt), publicar (pt)
• Russian: посыла?ть (ru) impf (posylát?), посла?ть (ru) pf (poslát?)
• Spanish: enviar (por correo)
• Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: g?i (vi), g?i (vi)

(Internet) publish a message

• Arabic:

  South Levantine Arabic: ??? (na?ar)

• Bulgarian: публикувам (bg) (publikuvam)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: PO (pho?), 貼 / 贴 (zh-min-nan) (tah)

  Mandarin: 張貼 / 张贴 (zh) (zhāngtiē), PO (pō)

• Esperanto: afi?i
• Finnish: l?hett?? (fi), julkaista (fi), postata (fi)
• French: poster (fr), publier (fr)
• German: posten (de)
• Icelandic: pósta
• Interlingua: postar
• Norwegian: legge ut
• Portuguese: postar (pt)
• Russian: помеща?ть сообще?ние impf (pome??át? soob??énije), помести?ть сообще?ние pf (pomestít? soob??énije), по?стить (ru) impf (póstit?), пости?ть (ru) impf (postít?), запости?ть (ru) pf (zapostít?)
• Spanish: postear (es)
• Swedish: posta (sv), skicka (sv), skriva (sv), l?gga upp (sv)
• Thai: ????? (póos)
• Ukrainian: публ?кува?ти до?пис impf (publikuváty dópys)
• Vietnamese: ??ng (vi)

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. With the post, on post-horses; by a relay of horses (changing at every staging-post); hence, express, with speed, quickly.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     His highness comes post from Marseilles,

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     In this posture were affairs at the inn when a gentleman arrived there post.

   • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:

     We therefore determined to change Horses at the next Town and to travel Post the remainder of the Journey.

   • 1886 November 23, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, 2nd edition, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, pages 134–135:

     He prided himself on looking neat even when he was riding post.

2. Sent via the postal service.

Descendants

• German: posten

Translations

with the post, on post horses; express, with speed

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can (changing at every staging-post), скоростно (bg) (skorostno) (with speed)
• Finnish: postitse (fi)
• German: postwendend (de), flugs (de) (dated), schnurstracks (de), geschwind (de)

sent via the postal service

• Bulgarian: по пощата (bg) (po po?tata)
• Finnish: postitse (fi)
• German: per Post, auf postalischem Wege

Etymology 3

Probably from French poste.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. An assigned station; a guard post.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. An appointed position in an organization, job.
   • 2005, Jesse Helms, “Bill Clinton”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir?^[4], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

     As hard as this may seem for some people to understand, my adamant stand in favor of President Clinton leaving his post was not personal.

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

     She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.

Derived terms

See Etymology 2.

Translations

assigned station

• Belarusian: пост m (post)
• Bulgarian: пост (bg) m (post)
• Danish: post (da) c
• Esperanto: posteno
• Estonian: punkt (et)
• Finnish: piste (fi), vartiopaikka (fi)
• French: poste (fr) m
• German: Stelle (de) f, Posten (de) m
• Greek: θ?ση (el) f (thési)
• Indonesian: pos (id)
• Maori: putaanga
• Portuguese: posto (pt) m
• Russian: пост (ru) m (post)
• Swedish: vaktpost c, postering (sv) c, post (sv) c, kur (sv) c, vaktkur c
• Ukrainian: пост m (post)

appointed position in an organization

• Belarusian: паса?да f (pasáda), пост m (post)
• Bulgarian: длъ?жност (bg) f (dlǎ??nost), пост (bg) m (post)
• Finnish: posti (fi), toimi (fi)
• Georgian: ????? (?os?i), ??????????? (tanamdeboba)
• German: Stelle (de) f, Posten (de) m
• Hindi: ???????? (hi) f (niyukti)
• Khmer: ????? (km) (tɑmnaeng)
• Lao: ?????? (tam n?ng)
• Macedonian: должност f (dol?nost)
• Malay: jawatan (ms)
• Polish: posada (pl) f
• Portuguese: posto (pt) m, cargo (pt) m, fun??o (pt) f
• Russian: до?лжность (ru) f (dól?nost?), пост (ru) m (post)
• Thai: ??????? (th) (dtam-n??ng)
• Ukrainian: пост m (post), поса?да f (posáda)

Verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

1. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
2. To assign to a station; to set; to place.

   Post a sentinel in front of the door.

   • 1839 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Early Memorials of Grasmere”, in Autobiographic Sketches: With Recollections of the Lakes (De Quincey’s Works; II), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 116:

     [I]t might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant that had passed as master and commander, or to get him "posted"— […]

Translations

assign to a station

• Bulgarian: поставям на пост (postavjam na post)
• German: postieren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: προστ?σσω (prostássō)

• Hindi: ???????? (hi) f (niyukti)
• Spanish: postar

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Latin post.

Preposition

post

1. After; especially after a significant event that has long-term ramifications.
   • 2008, Michael Tomasky, “Obama cannot let the right cast him in that 60s show”, in The Guardian?^[5]:

     One of the most appealing things for me about Barack Obama has always been that he comes post the post-60s generation.

   • 2008, Matthew Stevens, “Lew pressured to reveal what he knows”, in The Australian?^[6]:

     Lew reckons he had three options for the cash-cow which was Premier post the Coles sale.

Derived terms

• ex post
• post factum
• post festum
• post hoc
• post meridiem
• post obitum

Translations

after

• Bulgarian: след (bg) (sled)
• German: nach (de), jenseits (de)
• Portuguese: pós (pt)

Etymology 5

Clipping of post-production.

Noun

post (uncountable)

1. (film, informal) Post-production.

   we'll fix it in post

   • 2013, Bruce Mamer, Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image:

     Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas.

See also

• post-

Etymology 6

Clipping of post mortem.

Noun

post (plural posts)

1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
   • 2010, Sandra Glahn, Informed Consent, page 306:

     I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday.

Anagrams

• OTPs, SPTO, spot, TSOP, OSTP, Tops, pots, TPOs, TOPS, stop, tops, Spot, POTS, opts, PTOs

Breton

Etymology

Derived from Latin postis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?post/

Noun

post m (plural postoù or pester)

1. pillar; post; pole

Synonyms

• peul

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [?p?st]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin postis.

Noun

post f (plural posts or postes)

1. board, plank
2. shelf

   Synonyms: lleixa, prestatge

Hyponyms

• tauló

Derived terms

• post de pit
• post de planxar

Etymology 2

Inherited from Vulgar Latin postus, from positus.

Noun

post m (plural posts or postos)

1. (military) post

Participle

post (feminine posta, masculine plural posts or postos, feminine plural postes)

1. past participle of pondre

Further reading

• “post”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Cimbrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f (Luserna)

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkart

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / ünsarne b?rtar / Unsere W?rter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??st]

Etymology 1

From English post.

Noun

post m (plural postow)

1. (postal service) post
2. mail

Related terms

• kod post (“post code”)
• lyther (“letter”)
• lytherva (“post office”)
• postya (“mail, post”, verb)
• sodhva an post, sodhva bost (“post office”)

Etymology 2

From English post

Noun

post m (plural postow)

1. pillar, post
2. stake

Derived terms

• post arwodh (“signpost”)

Mutation

Mutation of post

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
post	bost	fost	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st/, [?p??sd?]

Etymology 1

Via French poste m from Italian posto (“post, location”), from Latin positus (“position”), from the verb pōnō (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. post (position, job)

Declension

Declension of post

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	post	posten	poster	posterne
genitive	posts	postens	posters	posternes

Derived terms

• postere
• vagtpost

Etymology 2

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, not used in plural form)

1. post, mail (letters or packages)
2. post, mail (a public institution distributing letters or packages)
3. postman (a person carrying letters or packages)

Declension

Declension of post

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	post	posten
genitive	posts	postens

Derived terms

• postbud
• postkontor

Etymology 3

Via French poste f from Italian posta (“stopping-place, post office”), from Latin posita, the past participle of pōnō (“to place”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. entry (in a budget)

Declension

Declension of post

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	post	posten	poster	posterne
genitive	posts	postens	posters	posternes

Derived terms

• postere

Etymology 4

Via Middle Low German post from Latin postis (“post, door-post”).

Noun

post c (singular definite posten, plural indefinite poster)

1. pump, tap, faucet (an outdoor water pump)
2. (rare, in compounds) post (supporting a door or a window)

Declension

Declension of post

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	post	posten	poster	posterne
genitive	posts	postens	posters	posternes

Derived terms

• d?rpost
• vandpost
• vinduespost

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: post
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. mail
2. a mail office, a post office

Derived terms

• exprespost
• kabouterpost
• luchtpost
• pakketpost
• postaal
• postadres
• postauto
• postbeambte
• postbedrijf
• postblad
• postbode
• postboot
• postbrief
• postbus
• postcode
• postdienst
• postduif
• posterij
• posthoorn
• postkantoor
• postkoets
• postorder
• postpakket
• postpapier
• poststuk
• posttarief
• posttrein
• postverkeer
• postvlucht
• postwaardestuk
• postweg
• postwezen
• postwissel
• postzak
• postzegel
• streekpost
• veldpost
• zeepost

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• → Caribbean Javanese: pos
• → Indonesian: pos
  • → Petjo: pos
• → Papiamentu: pòst

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste, from Italian posto.

Noun

post f or m (plural posten, diminutive postje n)

1. a location or station, where a soldier is supposed to be; position
2. a post, a position, an office

   Toekomstig Amerikaans president Barack Obama maakt zijn keuzes bekend voor de posten binnen zijn kabinet op het gebied van veiligheid en buitenlands beleid. — President elect Barack Obama makes his choices known for the posts within his cabinet in the area of security and exterior policy. (nl.wikipedia, 12/3/2008)

Derived terms

• grenspost
• handelspost
• legerpost

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pos
• → Indonesian: pos
• → Saramaccan: pósu
• → Sranan Tongo: postu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: postu

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

post

1. inflection of posten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ost
• Hyphenation: post

Preposition

post

1. after
2. behind

French

Etymology

Derived from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)

Anagrams

• pots, spot, stop, tops

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

post

1. inflection of posen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative
2. singular imperative of posten

Irish

Alternative forms

• posta (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??s?t??]

Noun

post m (genitive singular poist, nominative plural poist)

1. timber post, stake
2. (historical) post, letter carrier; (letter) post; postman
3. (military) post
4. post, job (of employment)

Declension

Declension of post (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative post poist vocative a phoist a phosta genitive poist post dative post poist forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an post na poist genitive an phoist na bpost dative leis an bpost don phost leis na poist

Derived terms

timber post

• post deiridh
• post leapa

letters

• aerphost
• bád poist
• cárta poist
• cúrsa poist
• fear poist
• máistir poist
• máistreás phoist
• oifig an phoist
• ordú poist
• ríomhphost
• seirbhís phoist
• stampa poist
• teach poist

military

• post ceannais
• post comhraic
• post éisteachta
• post faire
• post rialaithe

job

• i bpost
• post mór
• post muiníne

Mutation

Mutated forms of post

radical	lenition	eclipsis
post	phost	bpost

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

Further reading

• ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “post”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “post”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “post”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st/, /?post/, (careful style) /?powst/
• Rhymes: -?st, -ost, (careful style) -owst
• Hyphenation: pòst, póst

Noun

post m (invariable)

1. (Internet) post (message in a forum)

Anagrams

• spot, stop

Latin

Alternative forms

• poste (Old Latin)

Etymology

From earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós. Related to pōne.

The accusative is from analogy with ante or inherited like Ancient Greek πρ?? (prós) with the same metaphor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [?p?st]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [?p?st?]

Preposition

post (+ accusative)

1. behind (of space)

   Antonyms: ante, prae

2. after, since, (transf.) besides, except (of time)

Adverb

post (not comparable)

1. behind, back, backwards (of space)
2. afterwards, after (of time)

Derived terms

• post-
• poster
• posterus
• postīcus

Descendants

• →? Albanian: posht?
• Aromanian: apoi
• Asturian: pues
• Catalan: puix
• → English: post-
• Franco-Proven?al: pués, pi, pu, pè
• French: puis, post-
• Galician: pois, despois, pus
• Istriot: puoi
• Italian: poi, dopo, pos-, post-
• Mirandese: pus
• Portuguese: pois, depois, após, pos-, pós-
• Romanian: p?i, apoi
• Spanish: pues, después, pos-, post-
• Venetan: po, può

References

• "post", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "post", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "post", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Medi? et Infim? Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “post”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-fran?ais, Hachette.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches W?rterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 841

Latvian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?st]

Verb

post (transitive, 1st conjugation, present po?u, pos, po?, past posu)

1. tidy, clean, adorn
2. dress up, smarten

Conjugation

Conjugation of post

	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)					imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)		future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	po?u	posu		posī?u	—
2nd person sg	tu	pos	posi		posīsi	pos
3rd person sg	vi??, vi?a	po?	posa		posīs	lai po?
1st person pl	mēs	po?am	posām		posīsim	posīsim
2nd person pl	jūs	po?at	posāt		posīsiet, posīsit	posiet
3rd person pl	vi?i, vi?as	po?	posa		posīs	lai po?
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme)				participles (divdabji)
present	po?ot			present active 1 (adj.)		poso?s
past	esot posis			present active 2 (adv.)		posdams
future	posī?ot			present active 3 (adv.)		po?ot
imperative	lai po?ot			present active 4 (obj.)		po?am
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme)				past active		posis
present	postu			present passive		po?ams
past	būtu posis			past passive		posts
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme)				nominal forms
indicative	(būt) jāpo?			infinitive (nenoteiksme)		post
conjunctive 1	esot jāpo?			negative infinitive		nepost
conjunctive 2	jāpo?ot			verbal noun		po?ana

Mòcheno

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian posta.

Noun

post f

1. post (method of delivering mail)
2. post office

Derived terms

• postkòrt

References

• “post” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?st/

Noun

post m

1. skin

Norwegian Bokm?l

Etymology

Derived from Italian posta (in the given sense).

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural poster, definite plural postene)

1. post or mail (letters, etc., sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

• e-post
• handelspost
• kontrollpost
• postboks
• postbud
• postkasse
• postkontor
• postkort
• utpost

References

• “post” in The Bokm?l Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Derived from Italian posta (in this sense).

Noun

post m (definite singular posten, indefinite plural postar, definite plural postane)

1. post or mail (letters etc. sent via the postal service)

Derived terms

• e-post
• handelspost
• kontrollpost
• postboks
• postkontor
• postkort
• utpost

References

• “post” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin postis (“post, pedestal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /post/

Noun

post m

1. post
2. pedestal

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	post	postas
accusative	post	postas
genitive	postes	posta
dative	poste	postum

Descendants

• Middle English: post, poste
  • English: post
    • → German: Post
  • Scots: post, poist

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -?st
• Syllabification: post

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Noun

post m inan

1. fast (the act or practice of abstaining from food)
2. fast (the period of time during which one abstains from food)

Declension

Declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	post	posty
genitive	postu	postów
dative	postowi	postom
accusative	post	posty
instrumental	postem	postami
locative	po?cie	postach
vocative	po?cie	posty

Derived terms

adjective

• postny

noun

• Wielki Post

verb

• po?ci?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m animal

1. post (message)

Declension

Declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	post	posty
genitive	posta	postów
dative	postowi	postom
accusative	posta	posty
instrumental	postem	postami
locative	po?cie	postach
vocative	po?cie	posty

Further reading

• post in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• post in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English post. Doublet of poste.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?po(w)s.t??i/ [?po(??)s.t??i]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?po(w)s.t??i/ [?po(??)s.t??i]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /?po(w)?.t??i/ [?po(??)?.t??i]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?po(w)?t/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?po(w)?t/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pow?t/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /?po?t/

Noun

post m (plural posts)

1. (Internet slang) post (an individual message in an on-line discussion)

   Synonyms: publica??o, postagem

Related terms

• postar

Romanian

Etymology 1

Derived from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. fast (a period of abstaining from or eating very little food), fasting

Declension

Declension of post

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	post	postul		posturi	posturile
genitive-dative	post	postului		posturi	posturilor
vocative	postule			posturilor

Related terms

• posti

See also

• p?resimi
• Postul Mare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French poste.

Noun

post n (plural posturi)

1. post, position, job, place, appointment, station

Declension

Declension of post

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	post	postul		posturi	posturile
genitive-dative	post	postului		posturi	posturilor
vocative	postule			posturilor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?t?/

Noun

post m (genitive singular puist, plural puist)

1. post, mail
2. post, stake
3. postman, postie, mailman, letter carrier

   Synonym: posta

Derived terms

• cairt-phuist
• post-bàire
• post-dealain

Verb

post (past phost, future postaidh, verbal noun postadh, past participle poste)

1. post, mail

Mutation

Mutation of post

radical	lenition
post	phost

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *postъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??st/

Noun

p?st m inan (Cyrillic spelling по?ст)

1. fast, fasting

Declension

Declension of post

	singular	plural
nominative	p?st	pòstovi
genitive	p?sta	postova
dative	postu	postovima
accusative	post	postove
vocative	poste	postovi
locative	postu	postovima
instrumental	postom	postovima

Derived terms

nouns

• p?snīk

Further reading

• “post”, in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

Noun

p?st m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling по?ст)

1. (inanimate) pole, pillar
2. (basketball, animate) center, pivot
3. (Internet, inanimate) post (on a forum, etc.)

Further reading

• “post”, in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??st/

Noun

p?st m inan

1. fast (the act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	pòst
genitive	p?sta
	singular
nominative (imenov?lnik)	pòst
genitive (rod?lnik)	p?sta
dative (daj?lnik)	p?stu
accusative (to??lnik)	pòst
locative (m??stnik)	p?stu
instrumental (or??dnik)	p?stom

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “post”, in Slovarji In?tituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramov?a ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “post”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English post. Doublet of puesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?post/ [?post?]
• Rhymes: -ost
• Syllabification: post

Noun

post m (plural post)

1. (computing) post

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?st/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

post c

1. postal office; an organization delivering mail and parcels
2. (uncountable) mail; collectively for things sent through a post office
3. item of a list or on an agenda
4. post; an assigned station
5. position to which someone may be assigned or elected

   Posten som ordf?rande i idrottsf?reningen ?r vakant.

   The position as chairman in the sports association is free.

Declension

Declension of post

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	post	posts
	definite	posten	postens
plural	indefinite	poster	posters
	definite	posterna	posternas

Related terms

• posta
• Posten
• postkontor
• postl?da

Anagrams

• stop

Turkish

A lamb post.

Etymology

Derived from Ottoman Turkish ????, borrowed from Persian ???? (skin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [post]

Noun

post (definite accusative postu, plural postlar)

1. fur, hide, pelt

   Synonyms: kürk, p?steki

2. (Islam, Sufism, figuratively, by extension from the pelt used as sitting mat) The position of Sheikhdom in tariqas.
3. (figuratively) A position, an office, a chair.
4. (figuratively) One's life; hide, ass, heinie.

Declension

Declension of post

singular plural nominative post postlar definite accusative postu postlar? dative posta postlara locative postta postlarda ablative posttan postlardan genitive postun postlar?n Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular postum postlar?m 2nd singular postun postlar?n 3rd singular postu postlar? 1st plural postumuz postlar?m?z 2nd plural postunuz postlar?n?z 3rd plural postlar? postlar? definite accusative singular plural 1st singular postumu postlar?m? 2nd singular postunu postlar?n? 3rd singular postunu postlar?n? 1st plural postumuzu postlar?m?z? 2nd plural postunuzu postlar?n?z? 3rd plural postlar?n? postlar?n? dative singular plural 1st singular postuma postlar?ma 2nd singular postuna postlar?na 3rd singular postuna postlar?na 1st plural postumuza postlar?m?za 2nd plural postunuza postlar?n?za 3rd plural postlar?na postlar?na locative singular plural 1st singular postumda postlar?mda 2nd singular postunda postlar?nda 3rd singular postunda postlar?nda 1st plural postumuzda postlar?m?zda 2nd plural postunuzda postlar?n?zda 3rd plural postlar?nda postlar?nda ablative singular plural 1st singular postumdan postlar?mdan 2nd singular postundan postlar?ndan 3rd singular postundan postlar?ndan 1st plural postumuzdan postlar?m?zdan 2nd plural postunuzdan postlar?n?zdan 3rd plural postlar?ndan postlar?ndan genitive singular plural 1st singular postumun postlar?m?n 2nd singular postunun postlar?n?n 3rd singular postunun postlar?n?n 1st plural postumuzun postlar?m?z?n 2nd plural postunuzun postlar?n?z?n 3rd plural postlar?n?n postlar?n?n

Derived terms

• ke?i postu
• post elden gitmek
• post kavgas?
• post vermek
• postni?in
• postu deldirmek
• postu kurtarmak
• postu sermek
• postuna oturmak
• postuna saman doldurmak
• postundan olmak

Further reading

• “post”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /po?sd/, [p?o?st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p?sd/, [p??st]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English post.

Noun

post m (uncountable)

1. post, mail

Derived terms

• e-bost
• postfeistr
• postio

Etymology 2

Derived from Latin postis.

Noun

post m (plural pyst)

1. post, pillar

Alternative forms

• postyn

Derived terms

• mynegbost (“signpost”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of post

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
post	bost	mhost	phost

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