puya
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
puya (plural puyas)
Etymology 2 edit
From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.
Noun edit
puya (plural puyas)
- (botany) A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants. [from 19th c.]
- 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:
- The puya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.
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Asturian edit
Noun edit
puya f (plural puyes)
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Capiznon edit
Noun edit
puya
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -uʝa
- Syllabification: pu‧ya
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pūgia, from Latin pūgiō (“dagger”).
Noun edit
puya f (plural puyas)
- (bullfighting) sharp point on the tip of the vara (bullfighter's lance)
- jibe; taunt
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Etymology 2 edit
Interjection edit
puya
- (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“fuck!”))
- Synonym: púchica
- ¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!
- Oh fudge, we missed the bus!
- ¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!
- Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
puya
- inflection of puyar:
Further reading edit
- “puya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014