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Puma
Borrowed from Spanish puma, borrowed from Quechua puma, from Proto-Quechuan *puma.
puma (plural pumas)
- A mountain lion or cougar (Puma concolor).
- (by extension) Any feline belonging to the genus Puma.
- (slang) A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar.
- 2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, →ISBN:
“Younger can be good. How much younger?” Regina asked, inspecting the appetizer plates for any lingering bites. “I don't know,” Alexa said frowning. “Why does that matter?” “Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,” Regina said wisely, grinning as Lauren nodded excitedly in agreement.
- 2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, →ISBN:
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Classical Quechua puma.
puma m (plural pumes)
- “puma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- poma (Hispanic spelling)
From Proto-Quechuan *puma. Cognate with Quechua puma.
puma
Possibly via German Puma, ultimately from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma. First attested in the 19th century.
puma f (relational adjective pumí)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) First attested in the 19th century.
puma f (relational adjective pumový)
- “puma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “puma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma c (singular definite pumaen, plural indefinite pumaer)
- puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor)
Synonym: (rare) bjergløve
- “puma” in Den Danske Ordbog
puma
Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma f (genitive singular pumu, plural pumur)
puma on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia fo
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.
puma m (plural pumas)
- puma (mammal)
- → Romanian: puma
- “puma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
puma on Hungarian Wikipedia
puma
Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.
puma (plural pumák)
puma m (invariable)
Borrowed from English puma, from Quechuan puma.
puma (Jawi spelling ڤوما, plural puma-puma)
- puma (mountain lion); cougar (Puma concolor)
From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer, definite plural pumaene)
From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer or pumaar, definite plural pumaene or pumaane)
- “puma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Borrowed from Spanish puma.[1][2][3]
puma f
^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “puma”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “puma”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “puma”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- “puma”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “puma”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[3] (in Polish)
puma
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.[1][2]
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- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/
Rhymes: -umɐ
Hyphenation: pu‧ma
puma m or (nonstandard) f (plural pumas)
- puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:puma
- caracal
- chita, guepardo
- gato
- gato-maracajá
- jaguar, onça
- jaguatirica
- leão
- leão-baio, onça-parda, puma, suçuarana
- leopardo
- lince
- serval
- tigre
- ^ “puma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- ^ “puma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “puma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “puma”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
- “puma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Proto-Quechuan *puma; compare Classical Quechua puma.
puma
- puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)
- Pumachaka
- Pumak'uchu
- Pumakancha
- Pumakurku
- Pumamarka
- Pumaorqo
- Pumaphaqcha
- Pumaqchupan
- Pumaqhawa
- pumasqa
- Pumawasi
Descendants
→ Spanish: puma
- → Bulgarian: пума (puma)
- → Catalan: puma
- → Danish: puma
- → English: puma
* → Malay: puma
* → Swedish: puma - → Estonian: puuma
- → French: puma
* → Romanian: puma - → German: Puma
* →? Czech: puma
* → Faroese: puma
* → Finnish: puuma
* → Hungarian: puma
* →? Swedish: puma - → Greek: πούμα (poúma)
- → Icelandic: púma
- → Irish: púma
- → Italian: puma
- → Macedonian: пума (puma)
- → Norwegian: puma
- → Polish: puma
- → Portuguese: puma
- → Russian: пу́ма (púma)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pȕma / пу̏ма
- → Sicilian: puma
- → Slovak: puma
- → Slovene: púma
- → Swedish: puma
- → Translingual: Puma (see there for further descendants)
Translingual: Puma
Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2005), “puma”, in Diccionario quechua-español-quechua/Qheswa-español-qheswa simi taqe[4], Cuzco: Regional Government of Cuzco
puma f (uncountable)
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
pȕma f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ма)
From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).
puma m
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma m
- cougar, mountain lion, puma (Puma concolor)
puma
Borrowed from Quechua puma, poma, which came into European languages through Spanish puma. First attested in the 20th century.[1]
puma f
Inherited from Old Slovak puma, Borrowed from Germanic.
puma f (relational adjective pumový)
^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “puma”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 484
- “puma”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
- IPA(key): /pùːma/
púma f
- puma, mountain lion (Puma concolor)
| Feminine, a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | púma | ||
| gen. sing. | púme | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative(imenovȃlnik) | púma | púmi | púme |
| genitive(rodȋlnik) | púme | púm | púm |
| dative(dajȃlnik) | púmi | púmama | púmam |
| accusative(tožȋlnik) | púmo | púmi | púme |
| locative(mẹ̑stnik) | púmi | púmah | púmah |
| instrumental(orọ̑dnik) | púmo | púmama | púmami |
puma
puma m (plural pumas)
Descendants
→ Bulgarian: пума (puma)
→ Catalan: puma
→ Danish: puma
→ English: puma
→ Estonian: puuma
→ French: puma
- → Romanian: puma
→ German: Puma
→ Greek: πούμα (poúma)
→ Icelandic: púma
→ Irish: púma
→ Italian: puma
→ Macedonian: пума (puma)
→ Norwegian: puma
→ Polish: puma
→ Portuguese: puma
→ Russian: пу́ма (púma)
→ Sicilian: puma
→ Slovak: puma
→ Slovene: púma
→ Swedish: puma
→ Translingual: Puma (see there for further descendants)
“puma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
From Proto-Bantu [Term?].
-puma (infinitive kupuma)
| Conjugation of -puma |
|---|
| Positive present -napuma Subjunctive -pume Negative -pumi Imperative singular puma |
| Infinitives |
| Positive kupuma Negative kutopuma |
| Imperatives |
| Singular puma Plural pumeni |
| Tensed forms |
| Habitual hupuma Positive past positive subject concord + -lipuma Negative past negative subject concord + -kupuma |
| Positive present (positive subject concord + -napuma) Singular Plural 1st person ninapuma/napuma tunapuma 2nd person unapuma mnapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapuma wanapuma other classes positive subject concord + -napuma |
| Negative present (negative subject concord + -pumi) Singular Plural 1st person sipumi hatupumi 2nd person hupumi hampumi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapumi hawapumi other classes negative subject concord + -pumi |
| Positive future positive subject concord + -tapuma Negative future negative subject concord + -tapuma |
| Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pume) Singular Plural 1st person nipume tupume 2nd person upume mpume 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apume wapume other classes positive subject concord + -pume |
| Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipume Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepuma Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepuma Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipuma Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipuma |
| Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apuma) Singular Plural 1st person napuma twapuma 2nd person wapuma mwapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apuma wapuma m-mi(III/IV) wapuma yapuma ji-ma(V/VI) lapuma yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapuma vyapuma n(IX/X) yapuma zapuma u(XI) wapuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwapuma pa(XVI) papuma mu(XVIII) mwapuma |
| Perfect positive subject concord + -mepuma "Already" positive subject concord + -meshapuma "Not yet" negative subject concord + -japuma "If/When" positive subject concord + -kipuma "If not" positive subject concord + -sipopuma Consecutive kapuma / positive subject concord + -kapuma Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapume |
| Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nipuma -tupuma 2nd person -kupuma -wapuma/-kupumeni/-wapumeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpuma -wapuma m-mi(III/IV) -upuma -ipuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lipuma -yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipuma -vipuma n(IX/X) -ipuma -zipuma u(XI) -upuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kupuma pa(XVI) -papuma mu(XVIII) -mupuma Reflexive -jipuma |
| Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -puma- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -pumaye -pumao m-mi(III/IV) -pumao -pumayo ji-ma(V/VI) -pumalo -pumayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -pumacho -pumavyo n(IX/X) -pumayo -pumazo u(XI) -pumao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -pumako pa(XVI) -pumapo mu(XVIII) -pumamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -puma) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yepuma -opuma m-mi(III/IV) -opuma -yopuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lopuma -yopuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopuma -vyopuma n(IX/X) -yopuma -zopuma u(XI) -opuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kopuma pa(XVI) -popuma mu(XVIII) -mopuma |
| Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. |
- Verbal derivations:
- Conversive: -pumua (“to breathe; to rest”)
-puma
- to burst
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
en puma (sense 1)
en puma (sense 2)
From Spanish puma. At least since the 1990s in (sense 2).
puma c
- cougar, mountain lion, puma, Puma concolor
- (slang) a fox (very sexy woman)
Wow, vilken puma!
Wow, what a fox!
Cougar is sometimes used as a loanword in the English sense.
- “puma”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “puma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “puma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- Fula Ordboken
- Slangopedia
Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.
puma (definite accusative pumayı, plural pumalar)
- cougar, puma, mountain lion, any wild felid of the species Puma concolor, native to the Americas
Synonym: dağ aslanı
- “puma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “puma”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “puma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3905
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “puma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük