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Abbreviation of English Purepecha and Purepecha P'urhépecha.

pua

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Purepecha.

Borrowed from Hindi पुआ (puā).

pua (countable and uncountable, plural puas)

  1. A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.

sweet Indian cake

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pua (plural puas)

  1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

Uncertain. Cognate to Spanish púa, Galician puga.

pua f (plural pues)

  1. sharp point, prong, spike
  2. tooth (of a comb)
  3. tine (of a fork)
    Synonym: pollegó
  4. thorn
  5. quill
  6. (music) plectrum
  7. (figurative) a crafty person

pua m (plural puam) (Luserna, Timau)

  1. boy

pua

  1. edible bamboo shoots

pua

  1. third-person singular past historic of puer

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; blossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

pua

  1. (botany) flower
  2. progeny, child
  3. young (of fish, etc)
  4. arrow, dart

pua

  1. (intransitive) to blossom
  2. (intransitive) to emerge, issue

pua

  1. blanket
  2. a fabric woven using cotton or silk thread that is always involved ceremonially in festivals and celebrations, in association with traditional customs and beliefs.

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

pua

  1. (botany) flower
    Synonym: putiputi

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *pua.

pua (stem II puak)

  1. to carry on one's back
  2. to be exposed to (e.g. the elements)

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bō-, a stem meaning “father; brother; male relative”. Compare Pennsylvania German Buh, English boy.

pua m

  1. boy

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to sting”). Cognate with Galician puga, púa and Spanish púa. The sense "womanizer", "player" is influenced by English PUA.

pua f (plural puas)

  1. sharp end; point
  2. drill; bit (rotary cutting tool)
    Synonyms: broca, verruma
  3. sting
  4. (Brazil, Northeast Region, colloquial) womanizer, player

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

pua

  1. (botany) flower

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mpʊ̀dà (“nose”). Cognate with Chichewa mphuno and Shona mhuno.

pua class V (plural mapua class VI)

  1. nose

A very old borrowing, ultimately from Persian پولاد (pulâd).

pua class IX (no plural)

  1. steel
    Synonym: feleji

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

pua

  1. (botany) flower

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *pæk (“hundred”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 百 (MC paek, “hundred”).[1]

pua

  1. hundred

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 布 (MC puH, “to spread out; cloth”).[2]

pua

  1. to lay out, to lay on a surface
  2. to prepare a flat surface, to prepare a level place on the ground
  3. to spread on a flat surface
    pua pob zeb ― to pave with stone
    pua chaw pw ― to prepare a sleeping place
  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 31; 216; 281.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25