pu

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pu

1. (electrical engineering) per unit

pu

1. to go
2. to walk

pu

1. (of abscesses) to swell

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

pu

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to do
2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to throw

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Inherited from Old French puis, from Latin puteus. Cognate with French puits, Bourguignon pui, Picard puits, Norman pyit, Walloon pousse, Franco-Provençal pouét and Occitan potz.

IPA^(key): /py/

pu m (plural pus)

1. (Troyen) a well

• Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne, 1998
• Baudouin, Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux (Ville-sous-la-Ferté), 1887

pu

1. betel nut

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pue, puent, pues, pus, put, pût

pu (intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of pouvoir

pu (feminine pue, masculine plural pus, feminine plural pues)

1. (falconry) past participle of paître

pu

1. (Quebec, colloquial) Alternative form of plus

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu (plural pukuéra)

1. sound

• tyapu

pu

1. The hiragana syllable ぷ (pu) or the katakana syllable プ (pu) in Hepburn romanization.

pu

1. water

   Kanu pu imiyo lili.

   The canoe floats on the water.

• Gerstner-Link, Claudia. A Grammar of Kilmeri. (2018). Page 94.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Indonesian pohon.

pu

1. tree

• Rina, A. Dj., Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) “pu”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 82

pu (pu⁵／pu⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄨ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of pū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pù.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: pu

Cognate with Guaraní and Old Tupi pu.

pu

1. noise

Cognate with Old Tupi puk.

pu

1. (intransitive) to be perforated

   Xekamixa opu.

   My shirt is perforated.

• Robert A. Dooley (2016 August) “pu”, in Léxico guarani, dialeto mbyá: guarani-português (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 158

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu (“grandparent/grandchild; ancestor; lord, master, owner”).

• IPA^(key): /pu/
• Rhymes: -pu
• Hyphenation: pu

pu

1. distinguished person,
2. master
3. lord

• mpu
• ĕmpu
• ampu

• Javanese: ꦥꦸ (pu)

• "pu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈpu/

pu

1. (Kuyavia) Alternative form of ku

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pu”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 275

Onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: pu

pu m (plural pus)

1. (childish) Synonym of pum (“fart”)

Onomatopoeic.

pu

1. imits the cry of a hoopoe

• polo, poo, pouo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• puo, pulo, puwo — obsolete

From earlier puo, from puwo, with elision of /l/ from pulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq, from Proto-Austronesian *puluq. Compare Ilocano pullo, Pangasinan polo, Kapampangan apulu, Asi puyo, Bikol Central pulo, Aklanon napueo, Cebuano napulo, Maranao polo', Maguindanao pulu, and Malay puluh.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʔ/
• Rhymes: -uʔ
• Syllabification: pu

pû (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ) (mathematics)

1. ten (set of ten)

   Synonym: desena

• “pu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1104.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 253: “Diez) Povo [(pp)] |. polo, llegando [a diez] contando”

From Chinese 阜 (OC *buʔ). Cognate with Thai ภู (puu), Lao ພູ (phū).

• IPA^(key): /puː⁵⁵/

pu

1. mountain, hill

From Proto-Finnic *puu, from Proto-Uralic *puwe.

pu

1. tree
2. wood

• puine
• birbincpu
• jablon'pu
• kananpu
• tugipu
• vinpu
• voipu
• öpu
• pujaugad
• pukujo
• pusep

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “дерево, древесина”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu

1. mountain

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *kpa, possibly a Doublet of kú. Compare with Yoruba pa, Àhàn pu.

• IPA^(key): /k͡pū/

pu

1. (Ijebu, transitive) to kill
   1. (Ijebu, transitive) to murder

      Ó pu ìyàwó ẹ̀.

      He murdered his wife.

   2. (Ijebu, transitive) to execute
   3. (Ijebu, transitive) to switch off, to turn off

      Pu iná yẹn

      Turn off the lights.

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu

1. hand

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

• IPA^(key): /pu˧/

pu

1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45