postal

See also: postał and poștal

English

Etymology

From post +‎ -al, modelled on French postal.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈpoʊstl̩]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈpəʊstl̩]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊstəl
• Hyphenation US: post‧al, UK: pos‧tal

Adjective

postal (not comparable)

1. Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

   postal worker

   for all your postal needs

   work in the postal industry

2. (US, slang) Crazy, insane.
   • 1999, "Daria Dance Party" (Daria, season 3 episode 4)

     SANDI: Maybe I should just have my own party, since you obviously think I'm postal.

Derived terms

• postal address
• postal authority
• postal ballot
• postal box
• postal carrier
• postal code
• postal forgery
• postal history
• postally
• postal money-order
• postal money order
• postal note
• postal order
• postal rule
• postal village
• postal vote
• postal worker
• semi-postal stamp

 

Related terms

• post
• post office
• postally used
• go postal

Translations

relating to mail

• Arabic: بَرِيدِيّ (barīdiyy)
• Armenian: փոստային (hy) (pʻostayin)
• Belarusian: пашто́вы (paštóvy)
• Bulgarian: по́щенски (póštenski)
• Catalan: postal
• Czech: poštovní (cs)
• Esperanto: poŝta
• Finnish: posti-
• French: postal (fr)
• German: Post- (de), postalisch (de)
• Greek: ταχυδρομικός (el) (tachydromikós)
• Hungarian: postai (hu)
• Italian: postale (it)
• Macedonian: поштенски (poštenski)
• Persian: پستی (fa) (posti)
• Polish: pocztowy (pl)
• Portuguese: postal (pt)
• Romanian: poștal (ro)
• Russian: почто́вый (ru) (počtóvyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: uses genitive case of noun
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏штанскӣ

  Roman: pȍštanskī (sh)

• Slovak: poštový
• Slovene: poštni
• Spanish: postal (es)
• Ukrainian: пошто́вий (poštóvyj)

Anagrams

• A plots, plasto-, ploats

Catalan

Etymology

From posta +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pusˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [posˈtal]

Adjective

postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postals)

1. postal

Noun

postal f (plural postals)

1. Clipping of _targeta postal.

Further reading

• “postal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔs.tal/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

postal (feminine postale, masculine plural postaux, feminine plural postales)

1. postal

Derived terms

• boîte postale
• carte postale
• code postal

 

Further reading

• “postal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /posˈtaw/ [posˈtaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /posˈtaw/ [posˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /poʃˈtaw/ [poʃˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puʃˈtal/ [puʃˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puʃˈtal/ [puʃˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /puʃˈta.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: pos‧tal

Adjective

postal m or f (plural postais)

1. postal (relating to mail)

Noun

postal m (plural postais)

1. postcard

   Synonyms: cartão-postal, bilhete-postal

Romanian

Adjective

postal m or n (feminine singular postală, masculine plural postali, feminine and neuter plural postale)

1. Obsolete form of poștal.

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	postal		postală		postali	postale
	definite	postalul		postala		postalii	postalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	postal		postale		postali	postale
	definite	postalului		postalei		postalilor	postalelor

References

• postal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

From posta +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /posˈtal/ [posˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pos‧tal

Adjective

postal m or f (masculine and feminine plural postales)

1. postal

Derived terms

• código postal
• correo postal
• sello postal
• tarjeta postal

 

Noun

postal f (plural postales)

1. postcard

Further reading

• “postal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10