Puma - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 Translingual
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Proper noun
    * 1.2.1 Hypernyms
    * 1.2.2 Hyponyms
  • 1.3 References
• 2 English
  • 2.1 Etymology 1
    * 2.1.1 Proper noun
  • 2.2 Etymology 2
    * 2.2.1 Noun
    * 2.2.2 Further reading
  • 2.3 References
  • 2.4 Anagrams
• 3 German
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Pronunciation
  • 3.3 Noun
    * 3.3.1 Declension
    * 3.3.2 Descendants
  • 3.4 Further reading

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Puma concolor (mountain lion)

From Quechua puma.

Puma f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Felidae – mountain lion, puma, or cougar.

• (species): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Feliformia – suborder; Felidae – family; Felinae – subfamily
• (genus): Puma concolor – sole extant species

Puma

1. A village in the Solomon Islands.
2. An administrative ward in the Singida Rural district of Tanzania.
3. A Kiranti language spoken in Nepal.

A pair of Puma lifestyle shoes

See puma; the name was chosen to highlight ideas of strength, agility, and grace often associated with the large cat.[1]

Puma (plural Pumas)

1. An athletic shoe or other piece of athletic gear of a German-based brand of that name.
   • 1989, Daniel Lynch, chapter 5, in Bad Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Windsor Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 42:
     Joe Fortune shook his head, swung his legs over the edge of the bunk, and put on his Pumas.

• Puma (brand) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

1. ^ Stephen Peate, “Puma logo history and meaning”, in Fabrik Brands‎[1], archived from the original on 9 April 2022.

• paum, upma

18th century, from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA(key): /ˈpuːma/

Puma m (strong, genitive Pumas, plural Pumas)

1. cougar, puma
   Synonyms: Berglöwe, Silberlöwe, (very rare) Kuguar

• →? Czech: puma
• → Faroese: puma
• → Finnish: puuma
• → Hungarian: puma
• →? Swedish: puma
• “Puma”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[3] (in German)
• “Puma” in Duden online

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• Translingual terms derived from Quechua
• Translingual lemmas
• Translingual proper nouns
• mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
• English lemmas
• English proper nouns
• English uncountable nouns
• en:Villages in the Solomon Islands
• en:Places in the Solomon Islands
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• English terms with quotations
• en:Tanzania
• English trademarks
• German terms borrowed from Spanish
• German terms derived from Spanish
• German terms derived from Quechua
• German 2-syllable words
• German terms with IPA pronunciation
• German terms with audio pronunciation
• German lemmas
• German nouns
• German masculine nouns
• de:Felids