pu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pu"

Translingual

Symbol

pu

1. (electrical engineering) per unit

Aiwoo

Etymology 1

Verb

pu

1. to go
2. to walk

Etymology 2

Verb

pu

1. (of abscesses) to swell

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Anguthimri

Verb

pu

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

References

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

Chuukese

Noun

pu

1. betel nut

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pue, puent, pues, pus, put, pût

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

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu/

Noun

pu (plural pukuéra)

1. sound

Alternative forms

• tyapu

Japanese

Romanization

pu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぷ
2. Rōmaji transcription of プ

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.

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

• mpu
• ĕmpu
• ampu

Derived terms

• ampu
• mpu
• mpuṅku
• paṅampwan
• paṅĕmpwan
• pinakampu
• ĕmpon
• ĕmpu
• ḍapu
• ḍapunta
• ḍapuṅku

 

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.

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpu/

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: pu

Noun

pu m (plural pus)

1. (childish) 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: kapu, ikapu, saikapu, kasampu, sangkasampu, ikasampu, saikasampu
Tagalog Wikipedia article on 10

Alternative forms

• polo, pouo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• puo, pulo, puwo — obsolete

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

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

Numeral

pû (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

1. (mathematics) ten (set of ten)

   Synonym: desena

Derived terms

• animnapu
• apatnapu
• dalawampu
• ikaanimnapu
• ikaapatnapu
• ikadalawampu
• ikalimampu
• ikapitumpu
• ikapu
• ikasampu
• ikasiyamnapu
• ikatatlumpu
• ikawalumpu
• kapu
• limampu
• makapu
• pitumpu
• sa ikapu
• sampu
• sangkapu
• siyamnapu
• tatlumpu
• tigpupu
• walumpu

 

See also

• labi
• pinulo
• polo
• turo

 

Further reading

• “pu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1104.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 253: “Diez) Povo [(pp)] |. polo, llegando [a diez] contando”

Tai Do

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puː⁵⁵/

Noun

pu

1. mountain, hill

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

pu

1. tree
2. wood

Inflection

Inflection of pu (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing.	pu
genitive sing.	pun
partitive sing.	pud
partitive plur.	puid
	singular	plural
nominative	pu	pud
accusative	pun	pud
genitive	pun	puiden
partitive	pud	puid
essive-instructive	pun	puin
translative	puks	puikš
inessive	pus	puiš
elative	puspäi	puišpäi
illative	puhu	puihe
adessive	pul	puil
ablative	pulpäi	puilpäi
allative	pule	puile
abessive	puta	puita
comitative	punke	puidenke
prolative	pudme	puidme
approximative I	punno	puidenno
approximative II	punnoks	puidennoks
egressive	punnopäi	puidennopäi
terminative I	puhusai	puihesai
terminative II	pulesai	puilesai
terminative III	pussai	—
additive I	puhupäi	puihepäi
additive II	pulepäi	puilepäi

Derived terms

• puine
• birbincpu
• jablon'pu
• kananpu
• tugipu
• vinpu
• voipu
• öpu
• pujaugad
• pukujo
• pusep

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “дерево, древесина”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu/

Noun

pu

1. mountain

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[5], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k͡pū/

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

• IPA^(key): /pu/

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

• IPA^(key): /pu˧/

Noun

pu

1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)

References

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