puru

From Latin pūrus.

puru m sg (feminine singular pura, neuter singular puro, masculine plural puros, feminine plural pures)

1. pure

• impuru
• pureza
• purificar

From Proto-Finnic *puru. Equivalent to purra (“to bite”) +‎ -u. Compare Estonian puru (“dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuru/,
• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation^(key): pu‧ru

puru

1. (rare outside compounds) Synonym of pureminen (“biting, chewing”)

   purukumi ― chewing gum

2. A quantity of finely chewn food, such as a bird may give to its young.
3. chaw, chew (plug or wad of chewing tobacco)

   Pelaajat istuivat penkillä katsellen sadetta, jauhaen juroina puruaan.

   The players sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.

4. (pathology) ache, pain (gnawing, persistent pain, especially in stomach)

   mahanpuru ― stomachache

5. dust, powder, swarf (waste chips, shavings and dust from working a solid material)

   sahanpuru ― sawdust

   kutterinpuru ― cutter swarf

• (finely chewed food): purus, puretus
• (chaw): mälli
• (pain): kipu

• “puru”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Urpu, urpu

puru

1. to use

From Proto-Finnic *puru, equivalent to purra (“to bite”) +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish puru and Estonian puru.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpuru/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpuru/,
• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation: pu‧ru

puru

1. gravel (small fragments of stone)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 443

puru m

1. (dialectal) accusative singular of purs
2. (dialectal) instrumental singular of purs
3. (dialectal) genitive plural of purs

From Proto-Oceanic *pulu (“coconut husk”) (compare with Fijian bulu and Hawaiian pulu "coconut husk")^[1][2] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulut.^[3] Sense of "plug" is a semantic extension from the lack of coconuts found naturally in New Zealand.^[2]

puru

1. plug
2. caulk
3. (archaic, obsolete) coconut husk

puru

1. to plug, to fill or stuff in, to cram

puru

1. absolutely, extremely, stuffed

• pupuru
• purupuru

• “puru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Compare Wiradjuri buurruu

puru

1. (anatomy) testicles

puru

1. Alternative spelling of p'uru
2. Alternative spelling of phuru

Not to be confused with purun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾu/
• Hyphenation: pù‧ru

From Latin pūrus.

puru (feminine singular pura, masculine and feminine plural puri)

1. pure

• purità
• purificari

From Latin pūre, adverbial form of pūrus.

puru

1. also, too
2. even

• macari

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

puru

1. steam, vapour

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