puga

From Spanish fuga, from Latin fuga, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡa/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ga

puga (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. to escape from prison

Compare Tagalog piga.

pugâ (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. to squeeze
2. to wring

• púa

Unknown; perhaps related to Latin pungō (“I prick”) and pūgiō (“dagger”).^[1] Cognate with Portuguese pua and Spanish púa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɣa̝/

puga f (plural pugas)

1. one of many large nails used to fasten a metal tyre to each one of the wheels of the traditional Galician cart

   Synonym: raigada

2. scion, graft

   Synonyms: esgallo, tano

3. prong; sharp end

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “puga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

pugá

1. eggs of crabs or fish

From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паoуга (paouga), пѫга (pǫga).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/,

pūga f (genitive pūgae); first declension

1. (anatomy) buttock

   Synonyms: clūnis, natis

   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Saturae 1.2.133:

     nē nummī pereant aut pūga aut dēniqua fāma.

First-declension noun.

• dēpūgis

• cūlus
• pōdex

• “puga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• puga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈɡa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pu‧ga

pugá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. eggs of crabs or fish

• pugahan

Borrowed from Spanish fuga (“escape”), from Latin fuga.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: pu‧ga

puga (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. escape from prison

   Synonyms: pagtakas, pagtanan

2. escaped prisoner

   Synonym: takas

• “puga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

puga

1. to squeeze out fluid

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puga

1. rump, bottom thick part

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