pupo

See also: Pupo, pùpó, and pupọ

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧po

Verb

pupo

1. to pick; to harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached
2. to pluck; to pull something sharply; to pull something out
3. to reap; to obtain or receive as a reward

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pupo.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin pūpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupo/
• Hyphenation: pu‧po
• Rhymes: -upo

• Audio

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Noun

pupo (accusative singular pupon, plural pupoj, accusative plural pupojn)

1. doll
2. hand puppet
3. (entomology) pupa

Derived terms

• gantpupo (“hand puppet”)
• pupdomo (“doll's house”)
• pupteatro (“puppet show”)

 

See also

• marioneto (“marionette”)

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English poop, French poupe, Italian poppa, Spanish popa. The u was adopted to differentiate the word from popo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupo/

Noun

pupo (plural pupi)

1. (nautical) poop, stern (of a ship, boat)

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pūpus.

Noun

pupo (plural pupos)

1. boy

   Synonym: puero

2. child

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pūpus (“boy, child”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few; little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.po/
• Rhymes: -upo
• Hyphenation: pù‧po

Noun

pupo m (plural pupi)

1. (regional) a small child

   Synonyms: bambino, bimbo

2. puppet

   Synonym: marionetta

Derived terms

• pupazzo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.poː/, [ˈpuːpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.po/, [ˈpuːpo]

Noun

pūpō

1. dative/ablative singular of pūpus

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.pɔ/
• Rhymes: -upɔ
• Syllabification: pu‧po

Noun

pupo f

1. vocative singular of pupa

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua pupu.

Noun

pupo m (plural pupos)

1. (Argentina, Ecuador) navel, belly button

Further reading

• “pupo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• pupu
• popo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology 1

Compare sapo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpupoʔ/, [ˈpu.poʔ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧po

Noun

pupò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)

1. (obsolete) act of cutting a tree at the foot of it
2. great advantage
3. (childish, slang) Alternative spelling of pupu (“feces; poop”)

Adjective

pupò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)

1. broken or chopped off near the base or root

Derived terms

• pinupo
• pupoin
• pupokan
• pupupo

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puˈpoʔ/, [pʊˈpoʔ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧po

Noun

pupô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)

1. (obsolete) removal of inedible parts of food to separate the edible part (of chicken, fish, crab, shrimp, corn, beans, etc.)

   Synonyms: himay, paghimay

2. (obsolete) stringing and cutting into small pieces of beans (in preparation for cooking)

   Synonyms: himay, paghimay

Further reading

• “pupo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “pupo”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
• 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