protest-ar: (intr.) to protest (publicly); (tr., com.) to protest (payment on a bill). Def.: Asertar forte, solene, publike. Ex.: Protestar kontre abrogo. Il protestas ke omno esis facata kontre lua volo. Protestar pago. — DEFIRS
protestant-a, -(ul)o: protestant; -eso, -ismo: protestantism. — DEFIRS
protez-o: (surg.) prosthesis. Def.: Adjunto di artificala parto por remplas-igar parte o tote korpala defekto (ex.: artificala gambo). — DEFI
protist-o: (biol.) protist. — DEFIS
protogin-a: (bot.) protogynous; -eso: protogyny. — DEFIS
protokol-o: (parl.) written minutes (of proceedings); (diplom.) protocol; «proces verbal», official report (by functionary, as of a crime). — DeFIRS
protoplasm-o: protoplasm. — DEFIRS
protoplast-o: (biol.) — DEFIS
prototip-o: prototype. — DEFIS
protozo-o: (zool.) protozoan. — DEFIS
protuberanc-a: protuberant, prominent (cf. sali-anta); -o: (anat., astron. and gen.) protuberance, prominence: projecting part. — DEFIRS
proverb-o: proverb, adage (cf. sentenco); -a, -atra: proverbial; -eskar: to become a proverb; become proverbial; -o-komedio: short dramatic composition. Def.: Kurta, populara precepto o dicajo. — DEFIS
providenc-o: providence (of God); -ala: providential. — EFIRS
provinc-o: province; (fig.) shire, country district or region outside of a capital city; -ala: provincial; -atra: countrylike; -ano: a provincial, a country person; -estro: (rel.) a monastic superior; -al-ajo: a provincialism; a provincial idiom; -al-ismo: provincialism (system). — DEFIRS
proviz-ar: (tr.) to provide, supply, furnish (ulu, per ulo); to victual; -o, -uro: providing, supply, stock, store; -anto, -ero, -isto: provider, supplier, caterer, purveyor; (milit.) sutler, canteen-worker. Ex.: Provizar armeo per municioni. Provizar ulu per omna necesaji. V exp.: vid. furnisar. — DEFIRS
provizor-a: provisional, temporary, transitory; -e: provisionally, temporarily; -ajo: provisional measure, arangement. — DEFIRS
provok-ar: (tr.) to provoke: call forth; incite, incense; -anta, -iva, -ema: provoking, provocative; -ar a kombato: to call forth to combat. Def.: Agar segun maniero por produktar reprezalo. — DEFIRS
proxenet-o: panderer, pimp, go-between; -ino: procuress; -eso: business, position of being a pimp. Def.: Persono qua agas kom mediacero en shaminda afero. — FIS
proxim: (prep.) near, by, close to, nigh to; (of time and space; for quantities cf. cirkum; cf. apud); li esis proxim la urbo: they were near the city; proxim la instanto decidiganta: near the decisive moment; -e: (adv.) near, nigh, close; il lojas proxime: he lives close by; -a: near, next, bordering upon; ka vu akompanos me a la proxima strado? will you accompany me to the next street? printempo esas proxima: spring is near; la maxim proxima urbo: the nearest city; ta urbo esas plu proxima: that city is nearer; -eso: proximity, nearness; -igar: to bring, draw (ulo, ulu) near; il proxim-igas la hundo: he made the dog come near him; -eskar: to draw nigh, approach, to approximate; la hundo proximeskas: the dog came near; la tempo proximeskas; the time draws nigh; to esas nur proxime justa: that is only approximately right; proxim-igo ad la vereso: approximation to the truth. — EFIRS
proz-o: prose; -altra: prosaic, dull, matter of fact; -atr-eso: prosiness; -ajo: piece of prose. — DEFIRS
prozelit-o: proselyte. — DEFIRS
prozodi-o: (gram.) prosody. — DEFIRS
prozopope-o: (rhet.) prosopopœia, personification. — DEFIS
pru-o: (nav.) bow, prow. Def.: L’avana parto di navo o batelo. — eFIS
prud-a: prudish; -ino: a prude; -eso: (quality, characteristic prudishness); -ajo: a prudish act. Def.: Afektacante pudoroza. — DEF
prudent-a: prudent, cautious, politic, discreet, wary; -(ul)o: a prudent person; -eso: prudence; -e: with prudence, discreetly; ne- -a: imprudent, rash. Def.: Saja e cirkonspekta en agado e konduto. V. exp.: vid. cirkonspekta. ? EFIS
pruin-ar, -as: (impers.) there is (or, we are having) a hoar frost (or, white frost); -o: hoar-frost, rime; -oza, -iz-ita: white with frost, rimy, frost-covered. — L
prun-o: plum: prune; -iero: plum-, prune-tree (genus: Prunus); -ier-eyo: plum-orchard; sika -o: (dried) prune. — eFI
prunel-o: (bot.) sloe: fruit of the blackthorn; -iero: sloe-tree, blackthorn-tree (Prunus spinosa). — FI
prunt-ar: (tr.) to borrow (ulo, de ulu); (cf. prestar); -ajo: that which is borrowed, a loan. — F
prurit-ar: (intr.) to itch; -(ad)o: itching; (med.) pruritis. Ex.: La skalpajo pruritas. — eFIS
pruv-ar: (tr.) to prove, demonstrate by experiment or argument (ulo, per ulu); -o: proving, proof, evidence; -anta, -iva: convincing, decisive, conclusive (arguments); (cf. konkluziva). — DEFIS
psalm-o: psalm; -isto: psalmist; -libro, -aro: book of psalms; psalter; psalms (collect.); -o penitenc-ala: penitential psalm. — DEFIRS
psalmodi-ar: (intr.) to psalmodize, to sing psalms; (tr.) to drone out, recite (ulo) in a sing-song manner; -o: psalmody, psalm-singing. (fig.) sing-song. Def.: Psalmodio: maniero kantar la psalmi (aplikebla ad altro kam psalmi); IV-515. — DEFIS
psalteri-o: psaltery, a stringed musical instrument. — DEFIRS
pseudo-*: a prefix signifying false, counterfeit.
pseudonim-a: pseudonymous; -o: pseudonym, nom de plume, alias. Def.: Aganta o skribanta kun falsa nomo. — DEFIRS
pseudo-sfer-o: (geom.) pseudosphere.