pua

pua (plural puas)

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

• APU, AUP, Pau, UAP, UPA, pau

Uncertain. Cognate to Spanish púa, Galician puga.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.a/
• Rhymes: -ua

pua f (plural pues)

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

• “pua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

pua m (plural puam)

1. boy

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

pua

1. edible bamboo shoots

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pua

1. third-person singular past historic of puer

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

pua

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pu.a/, [pʉ.ɐ]

pua

1. (botany) flower

   Synonym: putiputi

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

pua m

1. boy

• “pua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

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.

• Hyphenation: pu‧a

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

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Cognate with Chichewa mphuno and Shona mhuno.

pua (ma class, plural mapua)

1. nose

• tundu la pua

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

pua (n class, no plural)

1. steel

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.

• IPA^(key): /pu̯ə˧/

pua

1. hundred