pound

Etymology 1
From, from , from , an early borrowing from , ablative form of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) A unit of weight in various measurement systems
 * 2) Various non-English units of measure
 * 3) A unit of mass in various measurement systems
 * 4) Various non-English units of measure
 * 5) A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
 * 6) A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
 * 7) A unit of force in various measurement systems
 * 8) Various non-English units of measure
 * 9) A unit of currency in various currency systems
 * 10) Various non-English units of currency
 * 11) The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
 * 12) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 13) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 14)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) A unit of currency in various currency systems
 * 2) Various non-English units of currency
 * 3) The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
 * 4) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 5) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 6)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 2) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 3)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 2)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)

Usage notes

 * Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
 * In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
 * The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَاوْنْد, رَطْل
 * Egyptian Arabic: رَطْل, بَاوْنْد
 * Aragonese: libra
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পাউণ্ড
 * Asturian: llibra
 * Azerbaijani: girvənkə
 * Basque: libra
 * Belarusian: фунт
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paon
 * Bulgarian: фунт
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 磅
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: funto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pund
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გირვანქა, ფუნტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: laba
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: punt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: фунт
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປອນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: mārciņa
 * Lithuanian: svaras
 * Louisiana Creole French: liv
 * Lü: ᦔᦸᧃ
 * Luxembourgish: Pond
 * Macedonian: либра, фунта
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: libra
 * Manx: punt
 * Norman: livre
 * Northern Thai: ᨸᩬᨶ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pund
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Punt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: punnd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фу̑нта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: libra
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ratili
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: libra
 * Tajik: фунт
 * Tatar: фунт
 * Thai: ปอนด์
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: cân Anh,, pao
 * Welsh: pwys
 * Yiddish: פֿונט


 * Finnish: troy-naula
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λίτρα
 * Hebrew:
 * Latin:
 * Vietnamese: cân Anh,, pao


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: paund
 * Arabic: جُنَيْه, لِيرَة or لَيْرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جنية
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: funt
 * Belarusian: фунт
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paon
 * Bulgarian: ли́ра
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: peuns
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pund
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გირვანქა, ფუნტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: fam
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: punt
 * Italian:, lira sterlina,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: фунт
 * Khmer: ផោន
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປອນ
 * Latvian: mārciņa
 * Lithuanian: svaras
 * Luxembourgish: Pond
 * Macedonian: фунта
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: lira
 * Manx: punt
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: live, livre , louis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pund
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, libra esterlina
 * Punjabi: پونڈ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: not
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фу̑нта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: libra
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pauni
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: фунт
 * Tatar: фунт
 * Thai: ปอนด์
 * Turkmen: funt
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: پوند
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: punt

Verb

 * 1)  To wager a pound on.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , related to 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
 * 2)  The people who work for the pound.
 * 3)  A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
 * 4) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 5) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 6)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
 * 2) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 3) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 4)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 2) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 3)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.

Usage notes

 * uses this word uncountably.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: útulek
 * Danish: internat, dyrehjem
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: eläinkoti
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: काँजीहौस
 * Hungarian:, gyepmesteri telep
 * Irish: póna,
 * Italian:, , gattile
 * Macedonian: кафиле́рија
 * Malay: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: punnd
 * Slovak: útulok
 * Spanish: perrera


 * Bulgarian: наказателен паркинг
 * Finnish: takavarikkoalue
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: póna
 * Italian: autoparco, deposito auto
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, depósito municipal ,


 * Finnish: sulkuallas
 * Italian:


 * Esperanto:,  ,  ,

Verb

 * 1) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
 * 2) * c. 1620, anonymous, “” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
 * When I short haue shorne my sowce face & swigg’d my horny barrell, In an oaken Inne I pound my skin as a suite of guilt apparrell

Etymology 3
From an alteration of earlier, , from , from , from. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
 * 2)   To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
 * 3)  To eat or drink very quickly.
 * 4)  To pitch consistently to a certain location.
 * 5)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 6)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 7) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 8)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To eat or drink very quickly.
 * 2)  To pitch consistently to a certain location.
 * 3)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 4)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 5) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 6)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 2)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 3) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 4)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 2) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 3)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 2)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 2)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: to
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: mazar
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: banga
 * Irish: tuargain
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: pīnsō, cūdō, tundō
 * Lithuanian: daužyti
 * Maori: pātukituki
 * Middle English: pounen
 * Old Norse: banga
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق
 * Polish:, , bachnąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: takay
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: pran
 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
 * Slovak: biť, tĺcť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: fai, tuku
 * Thai: ,
 * ǃXóõ: !qhāã


 * Aromanian: chisedz
 * Assamese: খুন্দ
 * Belarusian: таўчы́
 * Bulgarian:, счуквам
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏙᎠ
 * Ewe: to
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Higaonon: asud
 * Icelandic: banga
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Korean: (방아)찧다, 빻다
 * Middle English: pounen, brayen
 * Old Norse: banga
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scots: champ, pran
 * Slovak: drviť, rozdrviť
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: parçalara ayırmak
 * Ukrainian: товкти́


 * Bulgarian: тъпча се
 * Finnish: imaista
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Slovak: biť, búšiť, pulzovať
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Haryanvi: खुड़का
 * Haryanvi: खुड़का

Noun

 * 1) A hard blow.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: силен удар
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, colpo forte, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: úder, rana

Etymology
From, in turn from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
 * 2) A  or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
 * 3) Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.

Etymology
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Etymology
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Usage notes

 * The declension found below is theoretical, in the sense that as pound isn't a very common word compared to sterlin, and isn't considered an "official" word found in the TDK dictionary, its declension remains to be seen.

Declension
Declension of