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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Translingual

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pu

  1. (electrical engineering) per unit

Äiwoo

Etymology 1

Verb

pu

  1. to go
  2. to walk

Etymology 2

Verb

pu

  1. (of abscesses) to swell

References

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Anguthimri

Verb

pu

  1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to do
  2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to throw

References

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

Champenois

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old French puis, from Latin puteus.

Pronunciation

Noun

pu m (plural pus)

  1. (Troyen, Langrois, Rémois) a well

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes
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Chuukese

Noun

pu

  1. betel nut

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Participle

pu (intransitive, hence invariable)

  1. past participle of pouvoir

Etymology 2

Participle

pu (feminine pue, masculine plural pus, feminine plural pues)

  1. (falconry) past participle of paître

Etymology 3

Adverb

pu

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) alternative form of plus
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Guaraní

Pronunciation

Noun

pu (plural pukuéra)

  1. sound

Alternative forms

  • tyapu

Japanese

Romanization

pu

  1. The hiragana syllable ぷ (pu) or the katakana syllable プ (pu) in Hepburn romanization.

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puəq. Compare Malay empu, Indonesian empu, Old Javanese mpu Tagalog po. Also possibly from clipping of impu / apu (“grandmother”) or clipping of apung ginu (“god”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuʔ/ [ˈpuʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pu

Particle

pu

  1. marks respect toward the person the speaker is addressing
    Malawus kayu pu. ― Come on in, Sir/Ma'am.
    Munta ku pu pisamban, Ma. ― I am going to church, Mother.
    Po? ― Pardon?

Usage notes

  • The word does not appear at a beginning of a sentence unless used alone.
  • The word pu changes to po if it is an exclamation or a question.
  • The word pu usually replaces opu when in the middle of a sentence.

Derived terms

Kilmeri

Noun

pu

  1. water
    Kanu pu imiyo lili.
    The canoe floats on the water.

References

  • Gerstner-Link, Claudia. A Grammar of Kilmeri. (2018). Page 94.

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Indonesian pohon.

Noun

pu

  1. tree

References

  • Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “pu”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 82

Mandarin

Romanization

pu (pu5 / pu0, Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄨ)

  1. nonstandard spelling of pū
  2. nonstandard spelling of pú
  3. nonstandard spelling of pǔ
  4. nonstandard spelling of pù

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mbyá Guaraní

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpu]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: pu

Etymology 1

Cognate with Guaraní and Old Tupi pu.

Noun

pu

  1. noise

Etymology 2

Cognate with Old Tupi puk.

Verb

pu

  1. (intransitive) to be perforated
    Xekamixa opu.
    My shirt is perforated.
Conjugation
    Conjugation of pu
More information singular, plural ...

References

  • Robert A. Dooley (August 2016), “pu”, in Léxico guarani, dialeto mbyá: guarani-português (overall work in Portuguese), Anápolis: SIL Brasil, page 158

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *empu (“grandparent/grandchild; ancestor; lord, master, owner”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pu/
  • Rhymes: -pu
  • Hyphenation: pu

Noun

pu

  1. distinguished person,
  2. master
  3. lord

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦥꦸ (pu)

Further reading

  • "pu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

Pronunciation

Preposition

pu

  1. (Kuyavia, Near Masovian) alternative form of ku

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1867), “pu”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 275
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1892), “pu”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 15

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: pu

Noun

pu m (plural pus)

  1. (childish, regional) synonym of pum (“fart”)

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pu

  1. imits the cry of a hoopoe

Tagalog

Tagalog numbers (edit)
100
10
    Cardinal: sampu
    Spanish cardinal: diyes
    Ordinal: ikapu, ikasampu, pansampu
    Ordinal abbreviation: ika-10, pang-10
    Adverbial: makasampu
    Multiplier: sampung ibayo
    Distributive: tigsampu, sampuan, sampu-sampu
    Collective: pu, desena
    Restrictive: sasampu
    Fractional:
kapulo, ikapulo, saikapulo, kapu, ikapu, saikapu,
kasampu, sangkasampu, ikasampu, saikasampu
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 10

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier puo, from puwo, with elision of /l/ from pulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq, from Proto-Austronesian *puluq. Compare Ilocano pullo, Pangasinan polo, Kapampangan apulu, Asi puyo, Bikol Central pulo, Aklanon napueo, Cebuano napulo, Maranao polo', Maguindanao pulu, and Malay puluh.

Pronunciation

Numeral

pû (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ) (mathematics)

  1. ten (set of ten)
    Synonym: desena

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Tai Do

Etymology

From Chinese 阜 (OC *buʔ). Cognate with Thai ภู (puu), Lao ພູ (phū).

Pronunciation

Noun

pu

  1. mountain, hill

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *puu, from Proto-Uralic *puwe.

Noun

pu

  1. tree
  2. wood

Inflection

More information Inflection of (inflection type 13/ma), nominative sing. ...

Derived terms

  • birbincpu
  • jablonʹpu
  • kananpu
  • puine
  • pujaugad
  • pukujo
  • pusep
  • tugipu
  • vinpu
  • voipu
  • öpu

References

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

West Makian

Pronunciation

Noun

pu

  1. mountain

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *kpa, possibly a Doublet of kú. Compare with Yoruba pa, Àhàn pu.

Pronunciation

Verb

pu

  1. (Ijebu, transitive) to kill
    1. (Ijebu, transitive) to murder
      Ó pu ìyàwó ẹ̀.
      He murdered his wife.
    2. (Ijebu, transitive) to execute
    3. (Ijebu, transitive) to switch off, to turn off
      Pu iná yẹn
      Turn off the lights.

Yupiltepeque

Pronunciation

Noun

pu

  1. hand

References

  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
  • Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

Zou

Pronunciation

Noun

pu

  1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45

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