puk

Clipping of English Pu Ko.

puk

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Pu Ko.

From Latin publica^[1]. Cf. Serbo-Croatian puk.

puk m (plural puka, definite puki, definite plural pukat)

1. fool
2. idiot

Borrowed from English book.

puk

1. book

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuk]

From the root of pukat (“to burst”) and related pučet (“to sprout”).

puk m inan

1. fissure, crack

   Synonyms: puklina, trhlina

2. (poetic, obsolete) bud

From dialectal/archaic German Bug (“curve”, also “crease”), deverbal from biegen.

puk m inan

1. (chiefly in the plural) pleat, fold

Onomatopoeic.

puk

1. sound imitating a puff, smoke (typically from a pipe)

puk m inan

1. (dialectal, obsolete) puff of smoke

From English puck, either a byform of poke or from Irish poc.

puk m inan

1. (ice hockey) puck

   Synonyms: kotouč, touš

From English puck, from Old English pūca.

puk m anim

1. (rare, folklore) puck (mischievous spirit)

• “puk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “puk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “puk”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from English book, from Middle English bok, book, from Old English bōc, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks

puk

1. book

• Harrison, Sheldon P.; Albert, Salich Y. (1977), Mokilese-English Dictionary‎^[2], Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 203

Inherited from Assamese পোক (pük).

puk

1. insect

   Synonym: kira

• pouque (Jersey)

From Old Northern French poque, puque (compare Old French puche, modern French poche), from Old Norse poki. Compare also English pocket, poke (noun) from the same source through Anglo-Norman.

puk f (plural puks)

1. (Sark) bag

Historical spellings
Anchieta (1555)	puc
VLB (1622)	puc / pûc

Cognate with Mbya Guarani pu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Hyphenation: puk

puk (first-person singular active indicative apuk, first-person singular negative active indicative n'apuki, noun puka) (intransitive)

1. to be perforated^[1]

   Synonym: kûar

2. to break (to end up in two or more pieces)^[2]

   Synonyms: bok, îeká

3. to be forced (to be forcibly open)^[3]

   Synonym: îeká

4. to be deflorated
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter XXIV, in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], page 25v, lines 13–16; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 60:

     Cig uepe oeterama Tupã tarî / ypuc eimenhe oa oupa / yande poreauçuboca, yãde çupa / pitãgamõ gatu cecopotari.

     [Sygépe o eterama Tupã tari / i puke'ỹme nhẽ o'a oúpa / îandé poreaûsuboka, îandé supa / pitangamongatu sekopotari.]

     In her womb, God received His own future body. He was indeed being born without her deflorating, to pity and visit us, determining him as a good child.

5. to have pollution (to ejaculate outside of sexual intercourse)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Polução ter”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 80; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Apuapuc […]

     [Apuapuk […] ]

     I keep having pollutions.

6. (of stormy weather) to clear up^[4]

   Synonyms: îepirok, pukaíb

• Nheengatu: puka

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “puk”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 409, columns 1–2

• puk-puk

Deverbal from pukać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuk/

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: puk
• Homophone: Puk

puk

1. knock knock (used in lieu of knocking (e.g. on the door), when it is not possible to knock)

puk m inan

1. (rare) knock (abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood)

   Synonyms: pukanie, stukanie

• “puk”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

From Proto-Aslian *puk (“chicken”).

puk^[1]

1. chicken

• manuk

From earlier *puok, from older plk, from Proto-Slavic *pъlkъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *fulkaz.

• IPA^(key): /pûːk/

pȗk m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̑к)

1. folk, people

• “puk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “puk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /puk/, [ˈpuk]
• Rhymes: -uk

From the root of pučať (“to sprout”).

puk m inan (diminutive púčik or púčok)

1. bud

   Synonym: pupeň

From archaic/dialectal German Bug (“curve”, also “crease”), deverbal from biegen.

puk m inan

1. (colloquial) crease (on clothes)

   Synonym: priehyb

Borrowed from English puck.

puk m inan (relational adjective pukový)

1. (ice hockey) puck

• Králik, Ľubor (2016), “puk”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 483

• “puk”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

• IPA^(key): /puk/

puk

1. banana

• Bohuai
• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)