puga

From Spanish fuga, from Latin fuga, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂.

• Hyphenation: pu‧ga

puga

1. To escape.

Compare Tagalog piga.

puga

1. To squeeze.
2. To wring.

• púa

Unknown; perhaps related to Latin pungō (“I prick”) and pūgiō (“dagger”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese pua and Spanish púa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɣa̝/

puga f (plural pugas)

1. one of many large nails used to fasten a metal tyre to each one of the wheels of the traditional Galician cart

   Synonym: raigada

2. scion, graft

   Synonyms: esgallo, tano

3. prong; sharp end

• “puga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “puga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “puga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паoуга (paouga), пѫга (pǫga).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpʊɡä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpuːɡä]

puga f (genitive pugae); first declension

1. (anatomy) buttock

First-declension noun.

• clūnis
• cūlus
• natis
• pōdex

• “puga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

pugá

1. eggs of crabs or fish

• pugahan

Borrowed from Spanish fuga (“escape”), from Latin fuga.

puga

1. flight; escape

• pagtakas
• pagtanan

• pugahan
• pumuga

From Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

puga

1. to squeeze out fluid

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puga

1. rump, bottom thick part

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