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Translingual
Symbol
pus
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto .
See also
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus (uncountable )
( medicine , pathology ) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria , normally found in regions of bacterial infection .
Pus was seeping out of the wound.
Derived terms
Translations
fluid found in regions of infection
Abkhaz: а-ҭәа́ ( a-tʷá )
Aklanon: nana'
Albanian: qelb (sq) m
Aleut: susux̂
Arabic: قَيْح m ( qayḥ ) , صَدِيد m ( ṣadīd ) , مِدَة f ( mida )
Egyptian Arabic: مدة f ( meda ) , صديد m ( ṣadīd )
Armenian: թարախ (hy) ( tʻarax )
Aromanian: pronjiu m , pronju , proanji , proanje
Assamese: পূঁজ ( pũz )
Avar: хьверд ( x̂ʷerd ) , рецӏцӏ ( reccʼ )
Azerbaijani: irin (az)
Bashkir: эрен ( eren )
Basque: zorne
Bats: ნოტყ ( noṭq̇ )
Belarusian: гной m ( hnoj )
Bengali: পূঁয ( pũj )
Borôro: adudu
Bulgarian: гной (bg) m ( gnoj )
Burmese: ပြည် (my) ( prany )
Cappadocian Greek: ταράχι ( taráchi )
Catalan: pus (ca) m
Central Melanau: nanak
Chamicuro: kajshali
Chechen: ноткъа ( notqʼa )
Cherokee: ᎤᎦ ( uga )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 膿 / 脓 ( nung4 )
Mandarin: 膿 / 脓 (zh) ( nóng )
Czech: hnis (cs) m
Danish: pus n , materie c
Dutch: etter (nl) m , pus (nl) n
Esperanto: puso
Faroese: vágur m
Fijian: nana (fj)
Finnish: mätä (fi) , märkä (fi) , visva (fi)
French: pus (fr) m
Galician: pus (gl) m , brume (gl) m , veleno (gl) m
Georgian: ჩირქი ( čirki )
German: Eiter (de) m
Greek: πύον (el) n ( pýon )
Ancient: πύον n ( púon )
Hebrew: מֻגְלָה (he) f ( muglá )
Hindi: पीब ( pīb ) , मवाद (hi) ( mavād ) , पस (hi) m ( pas ) , पीप (hi) m ( pīp ) , पूय (hi) m ( pūy )
Hopi: peekye
Hungarian: genny (hu)
Icelandic: gröftur (is) m
Ido: puso (io)
Indonesian: nanah (id)
Ingush: наткъа ( natqʼa )
Interlingua: pus , pure
Irish: angadh m , braon m
Isnag: nana
Italian: pus (it) m
Japanese: 膿 (ja) ( うみ, umi ) , 膿 (ja) ( のう, nō )
Kazakh: ірің ( ırıñ )
Khmer: ខ្ទុះ (km) ( khtuh ) , ទឹករងៃ ( tɨk rɔngɨy )
Konkani: पू ( pū )
Korean: 고름 (ko) ( goreum )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: nêm (ku)
Kyrgyz: ириң (ky) ( iriŋ )
Ladin: mercia f
Lao: ໜອງ (lo) ( nǭng ) , ບຸບໂພ ( bup phō )
Latin: pūs n
Latvian: strutas (lv) f pl
Laz: თხომური ( txomuri )
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Low German: Etter m
Luxembourgish: Eeter m
Macedonian: гној m ( gnoj )
Malay: nanah
Malayalam: ചലം (ml) ( calaṁ ) , പഴുപ്പ് (ml) ( paḻuppŭ )
Maltese: materja
Mansaka: nana
Maori: ero , tarawai
Maranao: nana'
Mingrelian: თხომური ( txomuri )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: идээ (mn) ( idee ) , идээ бээр ( idee beer )
Mongolian: ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ ( idege ) , ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠷᠢ ( idege begeri )
Navajo: his
Nepali: पीप ( pīp )
Norman: pouôrrituthe f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: puss (no) m or n , verk (no) m
Nynorsk: puss m or n , verk m
Odia: ପୂଯ (or) ( puja )
Ojibwe: mini
Old Javanese: nanah
Old Norse: vágr m
Ossetian: хӕф ( xæf )
Ottoman Turkish: ایرك ( iriñ ) , چرك ( çirk )
Persian: چرک (fa) ( čerk ) , استیم (fa) ( estim )
Plautdietsch: Padikj m
Polish: ropa (pl) f
Portuguese: pus (pt) m
Quechua: giya , isgoi , pogro
Romanian: puroi (ro) n
Russian: гной (ru) m ( gnoj )
Sanskrit: पूय (sa) m or n ( pūya )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гно̑ј m
Roman: gnȏj (sh) m
Slovak: hnis (sk) m
Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
Somali: malax
Spanish: pus (es) m , podre (es) f
Svan: ფაქა̈რ ( pakär ) , შალა̈̄რ ( šalǟr ) , თა̈̄რ ( tǟr )
Swahili: usaha (sw)
Swedish: var (sv) n
Tagalog: nanà (tl)
Tajik: чирк (tg) ( čirk )
Tarifit: řgiḥ
Tatar: эрен (tt) ( eren )
Tausug: nana
Telugu: చీము (te) ( cīmu ) , పూయము (te) ( pūyamu )
Thai: หนอง (th) ( nɔ̌ɔng )
Tibetan: རྣག ( rnag )
Tocharian B: sekwe
Turkish: cerahat (tr) , iltihap (tr) , irin (tr)
Turkmen: iriň , çylpyk
Ukrainian: гній m ( hnij )
Uyghur: يىرىڭ ( yiring )
Uzbek: yiring (uz)
Vietnamese: mủ (vi)
Walloon: matire (wa) f , pus (wa) m
Welsh: madredd m , crawn m
Yakut: ириҥэ ( iriñe )
Yiddish: אייטער m ( eyter )
Zhuang: nong
Verb
pus (third-person singular simple present pusses , present participle pussing , simple past and past participle pussed )
( rare ) To emit pus.
Anagrams
'sup , PSU , SUP , Sup. , UPS , UPs , USP , psu , sup , sup. , ups
Albanian
Etymology
Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum . Compare Romanian puț , Italian pozzo .
Noun
pus m (plural puse , definite pusi , definite plural puset )
well (source of water)
Declension
Synonyms
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch poes .
Noun
pus
cat
Synonym: tusa
Lebe bai beta kasi makang pus dar mau kas makang orang pamalas. I would rather give food to the cat than to give food to the lazy.
References
D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998 ) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia , Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same.[ 1]
Noun
pus m (uncountable )
pus
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Catalan pus , from Latin plūs , from Old Latin *plous , from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- , *pelh₁u- ( “ many ” ) . Compare Occitan pus , French plus .
Adverb
pus
( archaic ) more
( Mallorca ) more ( in negative sentences )
Synonym: més
no en vull pus
I don't want (any) more of it
Usage notes
Etymology 3
Inherited from Old Catalan pus , from Latin post .
Conjunction
pus
after
References
Further reading
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
pus
genitive plural of pusa
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus n or m (uncountable )
pus ( whitish-yellow bodily substance )
Synonym: etter
Descendants
Finnish
Etymology
See pusu .
Pronunciation
Interjection
pus ( informal )
mwah , smooch
See also
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus , meaning the same.
Noun
pus m (plural pus )
pus
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pus
first / second-person singular past historic of pouvoir
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
pus m pl
( extremely rare ) masculine plural of pu
Further reading
Galician
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus f (invariable )
pus
Synonyms: materia , apostema
Etymology 2
From Old Galician-Portuguese pos, pus , from Latin post .
Pronunciation
Preposition
pus
( archaic ) after , behind
Etymology 3
Verb
pus
( reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “pus ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “pus ”, 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 ), “pus ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “pus ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch poes .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus
puss : a term to address or call a cat
Synonym: meong
References
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish bus ( “ lip ” ) .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
pus m (genitive singular puis , nominative plural pusa or pusanna )
(protruding) mouth ; sulky expression, pout
snout
Synonyms: cab , glomhar , gulba , smaois , smuilc , smúrlach , smut , soc , srubh
Declension
Alternative declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “4 bus ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931 ) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry ] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 166 , page 85
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 ) A Dialect of Donegal , Cambridge University Press, § 360 , page 123
Further reading
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “pus ”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “pus ”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpus/
Rhymes: -us
Hyphenation: pùs
Noun
pus m (invariable )
pus , matter
Further reading
pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *puos , from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os , from *puH- . Cognate with Sanskrit पुवस् ( púvas ) , Ancient Greek πύον ( púon ) , πύθω ( púthō , “ to rot ” ) , Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 ( fuls , “ foul ” ) , Old English fūl ( “ foul ” ) , English foul .
Pronunciation
Noun
pūs n (genitive pūris ) ; third declension
pus
foul , corrupt matter
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
“pus ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pus ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
pus 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)
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 ) Latin Phrase-Book , London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum ) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia )(ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia )
Lushootseed
Noun
pus
Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus .
Miskito
Noun
pus
cat
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French plus , from Latin .
Adverb
pus
( Jersey ) more , -er ( used to form comparatives of adjectives )
1903 , Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore , page 537 :Sème tes concombres en Mars, Tu n' airas qu' faire de pouque ni de sac; Sème-les en Avril, tu en airas ùn petit; Mé, j' les semerai en Mai; Et j'en airai pûs que té. Sow your cucumbers in March, you will want neither bag nor sack; sow them in April, you will have a few; I will sow mine in May, and I shall have more than you.
Noun
pus m (plural pus )
( Jersey , mathematics ) plus sign
Etymology 2
Verb
pus
first-person singular preterite of pouver
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Onomatopoeic .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus m (definite singular pusen , indefinite plural puser , definite plural pusene )
( informal ) cat
Synonyms: katt , kattepus , pusekatt
Anne har en kjempesøt pus . Anne has an adorable cat .
References
“pus” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
“pus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB ).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Onomatopoeic .
Pronunciation
Noun
pus m (definite singular pusen , indefinite plural pusar , definite plural pusane )
( informal ) cat
Synonyms: katt , kattepus , pusekatt
References
“pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan plus , from Latin plus .
Adverb
pus
more
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Noun
pus m (plural puses )
pus
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
pus
plural of pu
Etymology 3
Latin posuī
Verb
pus
first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
Romanian
Etymology
Past participle of pune . Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse , or from a hypothetical earlier form *post , from Latin postus , syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost , where this was preserved).
Pronunciation
Participle
pus
past participle of pune
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pūs .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈpus/
Rhymes: -us
Syllabification: pus
Noun
pus m or ( also in some parts of Latin America ) f (plural puses )
pus
1915 , Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena , page 302 :Para el cachín (úlcera inveterada), es bueno tomar el polvo de una culebra quemada, y aplica a la úlcera una lagartija, a la cual se ha despojado de las patas y la cola, con el objeto de que ésta chupe el pus . (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bus ( “ steam ” ) . Cognate with
Tuvan бус ( bus , “ steam ” ) ,
Bashkir боҫ ( boś , “ steam ” ) ,
Chuvash пӑс ( păs , “ steam ” ) ,
etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
pus (definite accusative pusu , plural puslar )
haze
Declension
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
Noun
pus
steam bath
References
Walloon
Etymology
From Latin plūs , from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- ( “ many ” ) .
Pronunciation
Adverb
pus
more