different between puku vs pudu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu?ku?/
• Hyphenation: pu?ku

Etymology 1

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

1. A small antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii)

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori puku.

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

1. (New Zealand) The belly.
   • 2011, Anahera Gildea, Anita Tipene, Ann French, Huia Short Stories 9: Contemporary Maori Fiction (volume 9)

     He groaned loud with his mouth open. Then he wet himself. And then he rolled over on to his puku.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puku/, [?puku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: pu?ku

Etymology 1

puk- +? -u

Noun

puku

1. suit, dress
2. attire, outfit
3. (in compounds) changing (of clothes), e.g. in pukukoppi (“changing cubicle”) or pukuhuone (“changing room, locker room”).

Declension

Synonyms

• asu

Derived terms

• pukuilla
• -pukuinen
• puvustaa

Compounds

Related terms

• pukea
• pukeutua

Etymology 2

From Zulu mpuku.

Noun

puku

1. puku (antelope Kobus vardonii)

Declension

Anagrams

• kupu

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pouco. Cognate with Kabuverdianu poku.

Pronoun

puku

1. few

Ingrian

Noun

puku

1. dress

Italian

Noun

puku m (invariable)

1. puku (Kobus vardonii)

Further reading

• puku in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Maori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k?/

Noun

puku

1. (anatomy) stomach, belly

Northern Sotho

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.

Noun

puku

1. book

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?ku/

Adjective

puku

1. long, elongate

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Tsou

Noun

puku

1. owl

English

Alternative forms

• pudú

Etymology

From South American Spanish pudú, from Mapudungun pudu (“small deer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pu?du?/, /pu??du?/

Noun

pudu (plural pudus or pudu)

1. A very small South American deer of the genus Pudu, native to the Andes.
   • 1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, p. 120:

     Whereas the southern pudu is more uniformly dark chestnut-brown, the northern form is light but has a very dark (aggressive) face in both sexes.

   • 2002, Chris Moss, The Guardian, 30 Nov 2002:

     In the undergrowth, native pudú deer scutter, lower than knee-height and wary of visitors; even shyer are the tall, elegant huemul deer, threatened almost to extinction and now only to be found high up the mountainsides.

   • 2008, Sharon R Chester, A Wildlife Guide to Chile, p. 309:

     Although protected by law, pudus are hunted locally for their hide and meat.

Translations

Italian

Noun

pudu m (invariable)

1. pudú