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See also: Pua, PUA, púa, puã, and pu'a

English

Noun

pua (plural puas)

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

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Catalan

Etymology

Uncertain. Cognate to Spanish púa, Galician puga.

Pronunciation

Noun

pua f (plural pues)

  1. sharp point, prong, spike
  2. tooth (of a comb)
  3. tine (of a fork)
    Synonym: pollegó
  4. thorn
  5. quill
  6. (music) plectrum
  7. (figurative) a crafty person

Derived terms

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

pua

  1. third-person singular past historic of puer

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; blossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

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

Iban

Pronunciation

Noun

pua

  1. blanket
  2. a fabric woven using cotton or silk thread that is always involved ceremonially in festivals and celebrations, in association with traditional customs and beliefs.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pua

  1. (botany) flower
    Synonym: putiputi

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

Noun

pua m

  1. boy

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to sting”). Cognate with Galician puga, púa and Spanish púa. The sense "womanizer", "player" is influenced by English PUA.

Pronunciation

  • 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, colloquial) womanizer, player

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

Noun

pua

  1. (botany) flower

Swahili

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Cognate with Chichewa mphuno and Shona mhuno.

Noun

pua (ma class, plural mapua)

  2. nose
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pua (n class, no plural)

  2. steel
    Synonym: feleji

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

Noun

pua

  1. (botany) flower

White Hmong

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *pæk (“hundred”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 百 (MC paek, “hundred”).

Numeral

pua

  1. hundred

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 布 (MC puH, “to spread out; cloth”).

Verb

pua

  1. to lay out, to lay on a surface
  2. to prepare a flat surface, to prepare a level place on the ground
  3. to spread on a flat surface
    pua pob zeb ― to pave with stone
    pua chaw pw ― to prepare a sleeping place

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 235-6.
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 31; 216; 281.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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