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

polis (plural poleis or polises)

  1. (historical) A Greek city-state.
    • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, page 161:
      By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.

a city or city-state

Borrowed from Scots polis. Doublet of police.

polis (countable and uncountable, plural polises)

  1. (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.
    • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 328:
      Even in his Ma's womb, you would have had to define Spud less as a foetus, more as a set of dormant drug and personality problems. He'd probably draw the polis onto them through knocking a saltcellar out of the Little Chef.
  2. (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polislər)

  1. police (an organisation that enforces the law)
    polis idarəsi ― police department
    polis şöbəsi ― police station, police district
    polis əməkdaşı ― police employee
  2. police (member of the police force)

Borrowed from English police.

polís (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜒᜐ᜔)

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

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

polis f (indeclinable)

  1. polis (ancient Greek city-state)

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

polis f (plural polissen, diminutive polisje n)

  1. insurance policy
  2. insurance plan

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

polis f (plural poleis)

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

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

polis

  1. (historical) polis; Greek city-state
    Hypernym: kaupunkivaltio (“city-state”)
    • 2011, Paavo Castrén, Uusi antiikin historia, Otava, page 117:
      Kreikkalainen polis tuli sekä etruski- että latinalaisten yhteisöjen esikuvaksi – –.
      The Greek polis came to be a role model for Estruscan and Latin communities alike – –

polis

  1. inflection of polir:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second-person singular past historic
    3. second-person singular imperative

polis m pl

  1. masculine plural of poli

polis

  1. masculine plural of poli

From French police.

polis

  1. police officer

From Dutch polis (“insurance policy”), from French police (“policy”), from Italian polizza, from Ancient Greek ἀπόδειξις (apódeixis, “proof”). Compare to Malay polisi (“policy”).

polis (plural **polis-polis)

  1. insurance policy

polis (plural **polis-polis)

  1. nonstandard form of poles

polīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of polus

Ultimately from Polish polak, Russian поля́к (polják) (under the influence of Old High German pōl — 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”).[1]

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

  1. a Pole, a Polish man, a man born in Poland
    pēc Livonijas kara poļi ieguva Vidzemi un Latgali ― after the Livonian War the Poles obtained Vidzeme and Latgale
  2. (genitive plural) Polish; pertaining to Poland and its people
    poļu valoda ― the Polish language
    poļu māksla ― Polish art
  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “polis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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

polis (Jawi spelling ڤوليس, plural **polis-polis)

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, Riau) The police, a civil force granted the legal authority for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
    Synonyms: serdadu (Southern Thailand), polisi (Indonesia)
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore, Riau) A police officer.
    Synonyms: anggota polis, mata-mata, serdadu (Southern Thailand), polisi (Indonesia)

polis (plural **polis-polis)

  1. (Indonesia) alternative spelling of polisi (“policy”); see Indonesian polis (“policy”)

From Spanish policía and Portuguese polícia and Dutch politie.

polis

  1. police
  2. policeman

polis

  1. police
  2. willy wagtail

polis

  1. second-person plural present indicative of polir

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis).

polis n (plural polisuri)

  1. polis

From the French police.

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:
      ‘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.'
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2007, Sheena Blackhall, The Quarry, Lochlands:
      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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2013, Pedro Lenz, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Naw Much of a Talker, Freight Books, page 51:

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polis

  1. Polish

polis

  1. polish
  2. adorn, beautify

polis m pl or f pl

  1. plural of poli

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city-state”).

polis f pl (plural only)

  1. polis

polis c

  1. (often in the definite "polisen") police (organization that enforces the law)
  2. a police officer
    Synonyms: polisman, (dated, now polisassistent) konstapel (“constable”)

polís (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎᜒᜐ᜔) (dated)

  1. alternative form of pulis

From English police.

polis

  1. police

From English polish.

polis

  1. polish

From Ottoman Turkish پولیس (polis), from French police.

polis (definite accusative polisi, plural polisler)

  1. (collectively) police (an organisation that enforces the law)
  2. (specifically) police officer
    Synonyms: aynasız, polis memuru