puha

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See also: Puha, püha, and pühä

English

Etymology

From Maori .

Noun

puha (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) thistle of the genus Sonchus

Hungarian

Etymology

From an otherwise unattested stem (an onomatopoeia) + -a (obsolete participle-forming suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

puha (comparative puhább, superlative legpuhább)

  1. soft (easily giving way under pressure)
    Synonyms: lágy, süppedős
    Antonym: kemény
    puha ágy ― soft bed
  2. (of cloth or similar material) soft (smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh)
  3. (of a person) soft, impressible, weak (in character)
    Synonyms: gyönge, befolyásolható
  4. (of a person) soft, pampered
    Synonyms: elpuhult, elkényeztetett, puhány

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative puha puhák
accusative puhát puhákat
dative puhának puháknak
instrumental puhával puhákkal
causal-final puháért puhákért
translative puhává puhákká
terminative puháig puhákig
essive-formal puhaként puhákként
essive-modal — —
inessive puhában puhákban
superessive puhán puhákon
adessive puhánál puháknál
illative puhába puhákba
sublative puhára puhákra
allative puhához puhákhoz
elative puhából puhákból
delative puháról puhákról
ablative puhától puháktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		puháé puháké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		puháéi puhákéi

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ puha in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • puha in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Kankanaey) IPA(key): /ˈpuha/
  • Rhymes: -uha
  • Syllabification: pu‧ha

Noun

púha

  1. Pronunciation variant of pusa.

Maori

Noun

puha

  1. gill (of fish)
  2. the sow thistle, also called rareke, or raraki

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

puha (Cyrillic spelling пуха)

  1. genitive/accusative singular of puh
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