puki
English edit
Noun edit
puki (plural pukis)
- A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
- 2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:
- First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.
- 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:
- She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.
- Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
- 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:
- Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
- 2008, Deborah Morgenthal, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:
- I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..
Anagrams edit
Asi edit
Noun edit
pukî
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pu‧ki
Noun edit
puki
- the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
- the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
- the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)
Finnish edit
Verb edit
puki
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”)[1] (compare also pukkad (“to burst”)), possibly influenced by the onomatopoeic stem of púzik (“to fart”, childish); with the diminutive -i.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
puki (plural pukik)
- (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)
- Synonyms: szellentés, púzás
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | puki | pukik |
accusative | pukit | pukikat |
dative | pukinak | pukiknak |
instrumental | pukival | pukikkal |
causal-final | pukiért | pukikért |
translative | pukivá | pukikká |
terminative | pukiig | pukikig |
essive-formal | pukiként | pukikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | pukiban | pukikban |
superessive | pukin | pukikon |
adessive | pukinál | pukiknál |
illative | pukiba | pukikba |
sublative | pukira | pukikra |
allative | pukihoz | pukikhoz |
elative | pukiból | pukikból |
delative | pukiról | pukikról |
ablative | pukitól | pukiktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
pukié | pukiké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
pukiéi | pukikéi |
Possessive forms of puki | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | pukim | pukijaim |
2nd person sing. | pukid | pukijaid |
3rd person sing. | pukija | pukijai |
1st person plural | pukink | pukijaink |
2nd person plural | pukitok | pukijaitok |
3rd person plural | pukijuk | pukijaik |
Derived terms edit
Compound words
References edit
Anagrams edit
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki, informal 1st possessive pukiku, 2nd possessive pukimu, 3rd possessive pukinya)
Further reading edit
- “puki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Pangutaran Sama edit
Noun edit
puki
Sakizaya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Noun edit
puki
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)
- Alternative form of puke