puku

From Zulu mpuku.

• pookoo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːkuː/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ku

puku (plural pukus)

1. A medium-sized antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii).

Borrowed from Māori puku.

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpʊkʉː/

puku (plural pukus or puku)

1. (New Zealand) The belly.
   • 2011, Anahera Gildea, Anita Tipene, Ann French, Huia Short Stories 9: Contemporary Maori Fiction, volume 9:

     He groaned loud with his mouth open. Then he wet himself. And then he rolled over on to his puku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuku/, [ˈpuku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification^(key): pu‧ku
• Hyphenation^(key): pu‧ku

puk- (“to put on, don; to dress (up)”) +‎ -u

puku

1. suit (set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers)

   Synonyms: asu (in the broad sense), (slang) sprigi

   Nick vuokrasi häihin laivastonsinisen puvun.

   Nick rented a navy-blue suit for the wedding.

2. suit (single garment that is a complete attire for a given task or activity)

   Synonym: asu

   avaruuspuku, suojapuku, uimapuku ― space suit, protective suit, swimsuit

3. dress (item of clothing which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist)

   Synonyms: leninki, mekko

4. dress, apparel, clothing, attire, outfit, costume

   Synonyms: asu, vaatteet

5. (in compounds) changing, dressing (of clothes)

   Synonym: pukeutuminen

   pukuhuone ― changing room / dressing room

• pukea
• pukeutua

• “puku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Zulu mpuku.

puku

1. puku (antelope Kobus vardonii)

• kupu

From Portuguese pouco. Cognate with Kabuverdianu poku.

puku

1. few

• pukua, pakulia

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ku/

puku

1. (intransitive verb) to collect
2. (intransitive verb) to gather

• pūkuʻi

From Zulu mpuku.

puku m (invariable)

1. puku (Kobus vardonii)

• puku in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Bantu *pʊ́kʊ̀.

puku class 9 (plural jipuku)

1. a species of rat

• Assis Junior, Antonio de (1967), “puku”, in Dicionário Kimbundu-Português: Linguístico, Botânico, Histórico e Corográfico [Kimbundu–Portuguese Dictionary: Linguistic, Botanic, Historical and Chorographic] (in Portuguese), Luanda: Argente, Santos & C.^a, L.^da, page 335
• Matta, Joaquim (1893), Ensaio de Diccionario Kimbúndu-Portuguez (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Editora Antonio Maria Pereira, page 129

From Proto-Polynesian *puku₁ (compare with Hawaiian puʻu and Tahitian puʻu),^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *buku from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukuh (compare with Malay buku (“node, lump, loaf”)).^[2][3] Sense of stomach displaced manawa. Also doublet of kupu, see there for more details.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuku/ [ˈpʉkʉ]

puku

1. swelling, lump
2. (anatomy) stomach, belly

   Synonym: manawa

puku

1. very

puku

1. to swell
2. to dilate

• kaipuku
• pukupuku

• → English: puku

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “puku”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[4], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Borrowed from English book.

puku

1. book

• IPA^(key): /puˈku/

puku

1. long, elongate

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

• IPA^(key): /pu.ˈku/
• Rhymes: -u

puku

1. long

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “puku”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 91, column 2

puku

1. owl