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pulya

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Hungarian

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Romanian pui (chicken, young of an animal, a child), from Latin pullus (young of an animal).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpujɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧lya
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Adjective

pulya (comparative pulyább, superlative legpulyább)

  1. faint, chicken-hearted, cowardly

Synonyms

Noun

pulya (plural pulyák)

  1. (dialectal) child, kid
    Synonym: gyerek

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

See also

Further reading

  • (child): pulya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • ([regional] effeminate): pulya in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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