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proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Etymology

Three possible origins: * A variant of the English surname Poe. * Borrowed from Cantonese 包 (baau1) and 鮑 /鲍 (baau1); compare Bao, which derives from the standard Chinese pronunciation of these characters. * Borrowed from Hokkien 傅 (pò͘); compare Fu, which derives from the standard Chinese pronunciation of these characters.

Forms

plural
Pows
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).