puma

See also: Puma, pumă, and púma

English

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puːmə/, /pjuːmə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uːmə
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ma

Noun

puma (plural pumas)

  1. A mountain lion or cougar (Puma concolor).
  2. (by extension) Any feline belonging to the genus Puma.
  3. (slang) A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar.

Translations

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish puma, from Classical Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

Noun

puma m (plural pumes)

  1. puma

Further reading


Classical Quechua

Noun

puma

  1. puma, cougar, mountain lion (Felis concolor).

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpuma]

Noun

puma f

  1. cougar, puma
  2. bomb

Derived terms

Further reading

  • puma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • puma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Noun

puma c (singular definite pumaen, plural indefinite pumaer)

  1. puma; cougar; mountain lion

Declension

References


Faroese

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʰuːma/
  • Rhymes: -uːma

Noun

puma f (genitive singular pumu, plural pumur)

  1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

Declension

Declension of puma
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative puma puman pumur pumurnar
accusative pumu pumuna pumur pumurnar
dative pumu pumuni pumum pumunum
genitive pumu pumunnar puma pumanna

See also


French

Etymology

From Quechuan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /py.ma/
  • (file)

Noun

puma m (plural pumas)

  1. puma (mammal)

Further reading


Hungarian

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpumɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ma
  • Rhymes: -mɒ

Noun

puma (plural pumák)

  1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative puma pumák
accusative pumát pumákat
dative pumának pumáknak
instrumental pumával pumákkal
causal-final pumáért pumákért
translative pumává pumákká
terminative pumáig pumákig
essive-formal pumaként pumákként
essive-modal
inessive pumában pumákban
superessive pumán pumákon
adessive pumánál pumáknál
illative pumába pumákba
sublative pumára pumákra
allative pumához pumákhoz
elative pumából pumákból
delative pumáról pumákról
ablative pumától pumáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
pumáé pumáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
pumáéi pumákéi
Possessive forms of puma
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pumám pumáim
2nd person sing. pumád pumáid
3rd person sing. pumája pumái
1st person plural pumánk pumáink
2nd person plural pumátok pumáitok
3rd person plural pumájuk pumáik

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Hyphenation: pù‧ma

Noun

puma m (invariable)

  1. puma

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English puma, from Quechuan puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pumə], [pumɐ]
  • Rhymes: -umə, -mə,

Noun

puma (Jawi spelling ڤوما, plural puma-puma)

  1. puma (mountain lion); cougar (Puma concolor)

Synonyms


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Noun

puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer, definite plural pumaene)

  1. a puma, Puma concolor

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Noun

puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer or pumaar, definite plural pumaene or pumaane)

  1. a puma, Puma concolor

References


Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Syllabification: pu‧ma

Noun

puma f

  1. puma, cougar
    Synonym: kuguar

Declension

Further reading

  • puma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • puma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma,[1] from Quechua puma.[2]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpũ.mɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/

  • Hyphenation: pu‧ma

Noun

puma m or (nonstandard) f (plural pumas)

  1. puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)
    Synonyms: onça-parda, suçuarana, leão-baio, leão-da-montanha

References

  1. puma” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  2. puma” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

Quechua

Noun

puma

  1. puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)

Declension

Derived terms

  • Pumachaka
  • Pumakancha
  • Pumak'uchu
  • Pumakurku
  • Pumamarka
  • Pumaorqo
  • Pumaphaqcha
  • Pumaqchupan
  • Pumaqhawa
  • pumasqa
  • Pumawasi

Descendants

References

  • “puma” in Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2006) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua, 2nd edition, Cusco: Edmundo Pantigozo.

Romanian

Etymology

From French puma.

Noun

puma f (uncountable)

  1. puma

Declension


Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûma/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ma

Noun

pȕma f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ма)

  1. puma

Declension


Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (fruit), interpreted as a feminine singular.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/, [ˈpuːmä]
  • Hyphenation: pù‧ma

Noun

puma f (plural pumi)

  1. (eastern Sicily) Alternative form of pumu (apple)

puma m pl

  1. plural of pumu

Slovak

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.ma/

Noun

puma f (genitive singular pumy, nominative plural pumy, genitive plural púm, declension pattern of žena)

  1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

Declension

See also

Further reading

  • puma in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pùːma/

Noun

púma f

  1. puma, mountain lion (Puma concolor)

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. púma
gen. sing. púme
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
púma púmi púme
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
púme púm púm
dative
(dajȃlnik)
púmi púmama púmam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
púmo púmi púme
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
púmi púmah púmah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
púmo púmama púmami

Spanish

puma

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuma/ [ˈpu.ma]
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Syllabification: pu‧ma

Noun

puma m (plural pumas)

  1. cougar, mountain lion, puma (Puma concolor)

Further reading


Swazi

Verb

-puma

  1. to burst

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.


Swedish

Noun

puma c

  1. a cougar (Puma concolor)
  2. (slang) a cougar; a woman who is attractive despite her age

Declension

Declension of puma 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative puma puman pumor pumorna
Genitive pumas pumans pumors pumornas
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