different between puka vs puya

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu?k?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian puka (“hole”).

Noun

puka (plural pukas)

1. A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun

puka (plural pukas)

1. Alternative form of pooka

Anagrams

• Kaup, kapu

Bikol Central

Verb

puka

1. to vigil, particularly, to refrain sleeping in order to offer oneself in prayer.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Maori puta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.ka/, [?puk?]

Noun

puka

1. hole, gate, doorway

2. a snare, a trap

   Synonym: k?puka

Descendants

• ? English: pooka

Verb

puka

1. to pass through and out (intransitive)

   Coordinate term: (transitive) ho?opuka

2. to graduate (intransitive)

   Coordinate term: (transitive) ho?opuka

3. to be said, to be spoken, to be issued

   Coordinate term: (transitive: to say, to speak, to issue) ho?opuka

4. to win, to profit, to gain

Further reading

• Entry at Wehewehe.org

Kanakanabu

Noun

puka

1. owl

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu.ka/

Verb

puka

1. third-person singular present of puka?

Quechua

Adjective

puka

1. red

See also

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German puke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²p???ka/

Noun

puka c

1. (music) kettledrum

Declension

Synonyms

• timpani

Derived terms

• pukslagare

References

• puka in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• kupa

Tagalog

Adjective

pukâ

1. rotten (referring to the end of a post that has been long in the ground)

Synonyms

• bulok

Warlpiri

Adjective

puka

1. rotten

English

Etymology 1

From Manipuri ???? (puya)

Noun

puya (plural puyas)

1. A Meetei scripture

Etymology 2

From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.

Noun

puya (plural puyas)

1. (botany) A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide 2000, p. 45:

     The puya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.

Anagrams

• ay up, ayup, yaup

Asturian

Noun

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

Related terms

• puyar

Capiznon

Noun

puya

1. child

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *p?gia, from Latin p?gi? (“dagger”).

Noun

puya f (plural puyas)

1. (bullfighting) sharp point on the tip of the vara (bullfighter's lance)
2. jibe; taunt

Derived terms

• puyazo

See also

• pulla

Etymology 2

Interjection

puya

1. (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“fuck!”))

   Synonym: púchica