pupa

See also: Pupa, púpa, pupă, and pupą

Translingual

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa

1. Used as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

Derived terms

• Braniella pupa
• Cerithiopsis pupa
• Cochlodinium pupa
• Echinorhynchus pupa
• Ehrenbergina pupa
• Gigantopora pupa
• hirtipupa
• Horologica pupa
• Leptopilos pupa
• Lernanthropus pupa
• Megalospora pupa
• Meganthribus pupa
• Micrathena pupa
• Palaina pupa
• pictipupa
• Pseudomyrmex pupa
• Puperita pupa
• Thomisops pupa
• Travisia pupa

Related terms

• Pupa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːpə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːpə
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

Noun

pupa (plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

2. (entomology) An insect in the development stage between larva and adult.

   Synonym: pupe

   • 1959 April 21, Walt Kelly, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Seattle, Wash.: Fantagraphics Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 34:

     The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]

Hyponyms

• chrysalis
• tumbler

Related terms

• puparium
• pupate

Translations

insect

Albanian: krizalidë f Arabic: خَادِرَة f (ḵādira), شَرْنَقَة (ar) f (šarnaqa) Armenian: հարսնյակ (hy) (harsnyak) Belarusian: ку́калка f (kúkalka), ля́лечка f (ljálječka) Bengali: পিউপা (piupa) Bulgarian: какавида f (kakavida) Chinese: Mandarin: 蛹 (zh) (yǒng) Crimean Tatar: qozalaq Czech: kukla (cs) f Danish: puppe c Dutch: pop (nl) f Esperanto: pupo (eo) Estonian: nukk Finnish: kotelo (fi) French: chrysalide (fr) f, nymphe (fr) f Georgian: ჭუპრი (č̣uṗri) German: Puppe (de) f Greek: χρυσαλλίδα (el) f (chrysallída) Hebrew: גֹּלֶם / גולם (he) m (gólem) Hindi: प्यूपा m (pyūpā) Hungarian: báb (hu) Icelandic: púpa (is) f Indonesian: kepompong (id) Italian: pupa (it) f Japanese: 蛹 (ja) (さなぎ, sanagi) Korean: 번데기 (beondegi) Kyrgyz: куурчакча (kuurcakca) Latvian: kūniņa f Lithuanian: lėliukė f Malay: pupa Maori: tūngoungou Mongolian: авгалдай (mn) (avgaldaj) Norwegian: Bokmål: puppe Persian: شفیره (fa) (šafire) Polish: poczwarka (pl) f Portuguese: pupa (pt) f Romanian: pupă (ro) f Russian: ку́колка (ru) f (kúkolka), хризали́да (ru) f (xrizalída) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: куку̀љица f, лу̏тка f Roman: kukùljica (sh) f, lȕtka (sh) f Slovak: kukla f Slovene: buba (sl) f Spanish: crisálida (es) f Swedish: puppa (sv) c Tagalog: tilas Thai: ดักแด้ (th) (dàk-dɛ̂ɛ) Turkish: krizalit (tr), pupa (tr), kavırçak (tr) Ukrainian: ля́лечка f (ljálečka) Uzbek: gʻumbak (uz) Vietnamese: nhộng (vi) (蛹 (vi))

See also

• caterpillar

References

• pupa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish popa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupa/ [ˈpu.pɐ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

Noun

púpa (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜉ)

1. (nautical) the stern; the rear part of a ship or vessel

   Synonym: ulin

   Antonyms: dulong, prowa

Related terms

• apupa

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

pupa

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūpa. Doublet of pop and popi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpu.pa]
• Hyphenation: pu‧pa

Noun

pupa (plural pupa-pupa)

1. pupa

Further reading

• “pupa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

pupa (plural pupas)

1. girl

   Synonym: puera

2. doll
3. pupa (of an insect)

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa.

Noun

pupa m (genitive singular pupa, nominative plural pupaí)

1. (zoology) pupa

   Synonym: criosalaid

Declension

Declension of pupa (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative pupa pupaí vocative a phupa a phupaí genitive pupa pupaí dative pupa pupaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an pupa na pupaí genitive an phupa na bpupaí dative leis an bpupa don phupa leis na pupaí

Derived terms

• pupach (“pupal”, adjective)
• pupaigh (“pupate”, intransitive verb)
• pupalann f (“puparium”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pupa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pupa	phupa	bpupa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pupa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “pupa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “pupa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pūpa. Doublet of poppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pa/
• Rhymes: -upa
• Hyphenation: pù‧pa

Noun

pupa f (plural pupe)

1. doll (child's toy)
2. pupa