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.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate 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

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