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English

Noun

pua (plural puas)

1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

Anagrams

• APU, AUP, Pau, UAP, UPA, pau

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pu.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pu.a/
• Rhymes: -ua

Noun

pua f (plural pues)

1. sharp point, prong, spike
2. thorn
3. (music) plectrum

Further reading

• “pua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

pua m (plural puam)

1. boy

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Ese

Noun

pua

1. edible bamboo shoots

French

Verb

pua

1. third-person singular past historic of puer

Hawaiian

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower
2. progeny, child
3. young (of fish, etc)
4. arrow, dart

Verb

pua

1. (intransitive) to blossom
2. (intransitive) to emerge, issue

Mòcheno

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *b?-, a stem meaning “father; brother; male relative”. Compare Pennsylvania German Buh, English boy.

Noun

pua m

1. boy

References

• “pua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pung? (“I prick, puncture, sting”). Cognate with Galician puga, púa and Spanish púa.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pu.?/
• Hyphenation: pu?a

Noun

pua f (plural puas)

1. sharp end; point
2. drill; bit (rotary cutting tool)

   Synonyms: broca, verruma

3. sting
4. (Brazil, Northeast Region, slang) womanizer, player

Rapa Nui

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower

Swahili

Etymology 1

Cognate with Chichewa mphuno.

Noun

pua (ma class, plural mapua)

1. nose

Derived terms

• tundu la pua

Etymology 2

A very old borrowing, ultimately from Persian ?????? (pulâd).

Noun

pua (n class, no plural)

1. steel

Tahitian

Noun

pua

1. (botany) flower

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French puy. Doublet of podium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwi?/

Noun

puy (plural puys)

1. Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos
2. (geology) Any similar conical structure of volcanic material

Further reading

• puy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pyu, YUP, yup

French

Etymology

From Middle French puy, from Old French puy (“hill, height”), pui, from Latin podium. Its current use as a regionalism referring to certain geographic features may be taken at least in part from Franco-Provençal; cf. also Occitan puèg and Catalan puig. In Old French, it had a somewhat different or more varied set of meanings (cf. also the feminine puie, puye, poye (“balustrade”), whence English pew through Anglo-Norman), later coming to be applied to mountains and hills especially in the Auvergne region and Massif Central, the remains of extinct volcanoes. Doublet of the later borrowing podium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i/
• Homophones: puis, puits

Noun

puy m (plural puys)

1. (geology, regional) mountain, hill

   Synonym: montagne

Further reading

• “puy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• puy on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Highland Popoluca

Etymology

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Noun

puy

1. foot

Derived terms

• puycho?goy
• puym?

References

• Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 99