puka
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpuːkə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːkə
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Hawaiian puka (“hole”).
Noun
[edit]puka (plural pukas)
- A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).
Noun
[edit]puka (plural pukas)
- Alternative form of pooka
- 2012, Nwaocha Ogechukwu, The Devil: What Does He Look Like?, →ISBN, page 45:
- In contrast, the puca (faeries) of Celtic folklore instill a similar psychological fear in those who believe in them just as the devil in Christianity creates fear in Christians
Etymology 3
[edit]From Maori [Term?].
Noun
[edit]puka
- The evergreen tree Meryta sinclairii, endemic to New Zealand.
- Synonym: pukanui
- The epiphytic plant Griselinia lucida, native to New Zealand.
- Synonym: akapuka
Anagrams
[edit]Bikol Central
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]púka (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜃ)
Derived terms
[edit]Guaraní
[edit]Verb
[edit]puka
- to laugh
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of puka
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Maori puta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puka
- hole, gate, doorway
- puka lani, puka o kalani
- gate of heaven, heaven's gate
- a snare, a trap
- Synonym: kīpuka
Descendants
[edit]- → English: pooka
Verb
[edit]puka
- (intransitive) to pass through and out
- Coordinate term: (transitive) hoʻopuka
- (intransitive) to graduate
- Coordinate term: (transitive) hoʻopuka
- to be said, to be spoken, to be issued
- to win, to profit, to gain
Further reading
[edit]Kanakanabu
[edit]Noun
[edit]puka
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *puka (“any littoral Pisonia, Hernandia spp.”) – compare with Tongan puka and Samoan puʻa vai (“Pisonia grandis”), Samoan puʻa (“ibid., Hernandia nymphaeifolia”).[1][2] Modern sense of introduced cabbage from large size of its leaves.[3]
Noun
[edit]puka
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 369
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-70
- ^ “Proto-Polynesian Etymologies: Puka”, in Te Māra Reo[2], Benson Family Trust, 2024
Further reading
[edit]- “puka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]puka
Quechua
[edit]Adjective
[edit]puka
See also
[edit]yuraq | uqi | titi, yana |
puka; panti | killmu, willapi, aruma (see also: q'illu); allqa, ch'umpi |
q'illu |
q'umir, waylla | ||
qhusi | uqi | anqas |
panti | panti; kulli, sañi, |
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German puke.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puka c
Declension
[edit]Declension of puka | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | puka | pukan | pukor | pukorna |
Genitive | pukas | pukans | pukors | pukornas |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
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[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /puˈkaʔ/ [pʊˈxaʔ]
- Rhymes: -aʔ
- Syllabification: pu‧ka
Adjective
[edit]pukâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ)
Anagrams
[edit]Warlpiri
[edit]Adjective
[edit]puka
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