| Official Name: | Ponova Vas |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Lower Carniola |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Central Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Grosuplje |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.37 |
| Population As Of: | 2002 |
| Population Total: | 441 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.9398°N 14.6315°W |
| Elevation M: | 333.4 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Ponova Vas (pronounced as /sl/ or pronounced as /sl/; sl|Ponova vas, de|Pöndorf[2]) is a village southwest of Grosuplje in central Slovenia. The area is part of the historical region of Lower Carniola. The Municipality of Grosuplje is included in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region.[3] The settlement includes the hamlets of Čemetija, Benat, and Kobiljek.[4]
Ponova Vas was attested in written sources in 1436 as Penndorff (and as Ponoua vaſs in 1686, Pondorff in 1688, and Panoua vaſs in 1720).[5] [6] In the past the German name was Pöndorf.[2] In the local dialect, the name is pronounced Panova vas. The morphology of the name indicates that it is a possessive form of a personal name, perhaps Old High German Pono or Bono, thus meaning 'Pono's village' or 'Bono's village'. Derivations from *(Žu)panova vьsь 'mayor's village' and from the Italian personal name Beno have been rejected for accentual reasons.[5]
Notable people that were born or lived in Ponova Vas include: