different between puku vs putu

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

Etymology

From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /?pu?t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pu?tu?/

Noun

putu (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 328:

     Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 242:

     Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).

Related terms

• putu pap

Translations

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *putu(-) (“hole through something, to pierce, has a hole”), from Proto-Eskimo *putru(-) (“hole, to pierce”). Compare putuvoq (“is perforated”), and pussorpoq (“has a hole worn in it”).

Noun

putu (plural putut)

1. hole

Further reading

• DAKA

Hopi

Adjective

putu

1. heavy (possessing great weight)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay putu, from Tamil ?????? (pu??u, “puttu”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?putu]
• Hyphenation: pu?tu

Noun

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

Further reading

• “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?putu/

Noun

putu

1. accusative singular of puta
2. instrumental singular of puta

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?tu]

Verb

putu

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

putu m

1. dative/locative singular of put

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of puto

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. accusative singular of puta

Tausug

Noun

putu

1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.