pu

pu

1. (electrical engineering) per unit

pu

1. to go
2. to walk

pu

1. (of abscesses) to swell

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

pu

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to do
2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to throw

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 187

pu

1. betel nut

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pue, puent, pues, pus, put, pût

pu (intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of pouvoir

pu (feminine pue, masculine plural pus, feminine plural pues)

1. (falconry) past participle of paître

pu

1. (Quebec, colloquial) Alternative form of plus

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu (plural pukuéra)

1. sound

pu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぷ
2. Rōmaji transcription of プ

pu

1. water

   Kanu pu imiyo lili.

   The canoe floats on the water.

• Gerstner-Link, Claudia. A Grammar of Kilmeri. (2018). Page 94.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Indonesian pohon.

pu

1. tree

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “pu”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 82

pu (pu⁵／pu⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄆㄨ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of pū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pù.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: pu

pu m (plural pus)

1. (childish) Synonym of pum (“fart”)

Onomatopoeic.

pu

1. imits the cry of a hoopoe

• polo, pouo, povo – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
• puo, pulo, puwo – obsolete

From earlier puo / puwo, with elision of /l/ from pulo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puluq, from Proto-Austronesian *puluq. Compare Ilocano pulo, Pangasinan polo, Kapampangan apulu, Asi puyo, Bikol Central pulo, Aklanon napueo, Cebuano napulo, Maranao polo', Maguindanao pulu, and Malay puluh.

• Hyphenation: pu
• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʔ/, [ˈpuʔ]

pû (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓ)

1. (mathematics) ten (set of ten)

   Synonym: desena

• “pu”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
• Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish & Tagalog), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
• Fr. Pedro de San Buena Ventura (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 253: “Diez) Povo [(pp)] |. polo, llegando [a diez] contando”

From Chinese 阜 (OC *buʔ). Cognate with Thai ภู (puu), Lao ພູ (phū).

• IPA^(key): /puː⁵⁵/

pu

1. mountain, hill

From Proto-Finnic *puu, from Proto-Uralic *puwe.

pu

1. tree
2. wood

• puine
• birbincpu
• jablon'pu
• kananpu
• tugipu
• vinpu
• voipu
• öpu
• pujaugad
• pukujo
• pusep

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “дерево, древесина”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu

1. mountain

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): /pu/

pu

1. hand

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages

• IPA^(key): /pu˧/

pu

1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45