different between policewoman vs polis

English

Etymology

From police +? -woman.

Noun

policewoman (plural policewomen)

1. A female police officer.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:police officer

Hypernyms

• police officer

Coordinate terms

• policeman

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p??l?s, IPA^(key): /?p?.l?s/
• enPR: p??l?s, IPA^(key): /?po?.l?s/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).

Noun

polis (plural poleis or polises)

1. (historical) A Greek city-state.

Related terms

• -polis

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots polis.

Alternative forms

• pollis

Noun

polis (countable and uncountable, plural polises)

1. (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) The police.
2. (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) A police officer.

Further reading

• Oxford Dictionaries Online. "polis". 2015.
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• spoil

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [po?lis]
• Hyphenation: pol?is

Noun

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polisl?r)

1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)

2. police (member of the police force)

Declension

Cebuano

Etymology

From English police, from Middle French police, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (politeía).

Noun

polis

1. A police officer; a cop.
2. A civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Czech

Etymology

International learned borrowing Ancient Greek ????? (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).

Noun

polis f

1. polis (ancient Greek city-state)

Related terms

Further reading

• polis in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• polis in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po?.l?s/
• Hyphenation: po?lis

Etymology 1

From French police (from Italian polizza, q.v.).

Noun

polis f (plural polissen, diminutive polisje n)

1. insurance policy
2. insurance plan

Derived terms

• verzekeringspolis
• woekerpolis

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: polis

Etymology 2

International learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (pólis) since the 1970s (probably via English polis).

Noun

polis f (plural poleis)

1. (historical) A polis; an ancient, especially Ancient Greek, city state or city.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polis/, [?po?lis?]
• Rhymes: -olis
• Syllabification: po?lis

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ????? (pólis, “fortified town; city state”).

Noun

polis

1. (historical) A Greek city-state.

Declension

Synonyms

• (general) kaupunkivaltio

Related terms

• -polis
• politiikka

French

Verb

polis

1. first-person singular present indicative of polir
2. second-person singular present indicative of polir
3. first-person singular past historic of polir
4. second-person singular past historic of polir
5. second-person singular imperative of polir

Participle

polis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of polir

Adjective

polis

1. masculine plural of poli

Anagrams

• poils

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pol?s/
• Hyphenation: po?lis

Etymology 1

From Dutch polis (“insurance policy”), from French police (“policy”), from Italian polizza, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apódeixis, “proof”).

Noun

polis (first-person possessive polisku, second-person possessive polismu, third-person possessive polisnya)

1. insurance policy

Derived terms

• berpolis

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

polis (first-person possessive polisku, second-person possessive polismu, third-person possessive polisnya)

1. Nonstandard form of poles.

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay polis.

Further reading

• “polis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Noun

pol?s

1. dative plural of polus
2. ablative plural of polus

References

• polis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• polis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• polis in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Latvian

Etymology

Ultimately from Polish polak, Russian ?????? (polják) (under the influence of Old High German p?l — cf. German, English Pole — and perhaps also of Latvian dialectal bolis, polis (“ox without horns”)), itself derived from Polish pole (“field”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“light (color), gray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??lis]

Noun

polis m (2nd declension, feminine form: poliete)

1. a Pole, a Polish man, a man born in Poland

2. (genitive plural) Polish; pertaining to Poland and its people

Declension

Related terms

• Polija
• polisks
• po?u valoda

References

Malay

Etymology

From English police, from Middle French police, from Latin politia (“state, government”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (politeía).

Noun

polis (plural polis-polis, informal 1st possessive polisku, impolite 2nd possessive polismu, 3rd possessive polisnya)

1. police, a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.

Alternative forms

• polisi (Indonesia)

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen in Indonesian polis.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish policía and Portuguese polícia and Dutch politie.

Noun

polis

1. police
2. policeman

Pijin

Noun

polis

1. police
2. willy wagtail

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pol?s/

Etymology 1

From the French police.

Noun

polis (countable and uncountable, plural polises)

1. (uncountable) police
   • 1987, Robbie Kydd, ...Auld Zimmery, Mariscat Press 1987:

     'Listen then. Yer name's Andy MacPhail. That's whit us three has jist tellt the polis in wir statements. Okay?'

   • 1991, Dr James Begg, Dipper: 20 – Cops and Robbers, Luath Press 1991:

     ‘Aye, Andra,' cam back the reply. 'We micht as weel caa it a day doun here. The hale bluidy place is hotchin wi polis! Come doun an get us at the Auld Raw.'

   • 2007, Sheena Blackhall, The Quarry, Lochlands 2007:

     Brian hid contactit his granfaither, Pat, tae see gin the polis computers could raik up onythin ava tae makk eese o in persuadin Bappy Anderson tae pairt wi a kidney.

   • 2013, Donal McLaughlin, translating Pedro Lenz, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books 2013, p. 51:

     Coont yirsel lucky ahm naw cawin the polis. Noo fuck off.

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

polis

1. Polish

Verb

polis

1. polish
2. adorn, beautify

References

• http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ - Dictionary of the Scots Language

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?polis/, [?po.lis]

Etymology 1

Noun

polis m pl or f pl

1. plural of poli

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (pólis, “city-state”).

Noun

polis f (plural polis)

1. polis

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

polis c

1. police (as an organization or as an individual)

Declension

Synonyms

• byling
• farbror blå
• snut

Derived terms

References

• polis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English police.

Noun

polis

1. police

Etymology 2

From English polish.

Noun

polis

1. polish

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French police.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?lis/
• Hyphenation: po?lis

Noun

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polisler)

1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)
2. police officer

Usage notes

• This term is gender-neutral.

Declension

Synonyms

• aynas?z