puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, borrowed from Quechua puma, from Proto-Quechuan *puma.

• IPA^(key): /puːmə/, /pjuːmə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːmə
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

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.
   • 2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, →ISBN:

     “Younger can be good. How much younger?” Regina asked, inspecting the appetizer plates for any lingering bites. “I don't know,” Alexa said frowning. “Why does that matter?” “Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,” Regina said wisely, grinning as Lauren nodded excitedly in agreement.

• → Malay: puma
• → Swedish: puma

• paum, upma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Classical Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpu.ma]

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puma m (plural pumes)

1. puma

• “puma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• poma (Hispanic spelling)

From Proto-Quechuan *puma. Cognate with Quechua puma.

puma

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

• → Spanish: puma (see there for further descendants)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuma]

Possibly via German Puma, ultimately from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma. First attested in the 19th century.

puma f (relational adjective pumí)

1. cougar, puma

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) First attested in the 19th century.

puma f (relational adjective pumový)

1. bomb

• “puma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “puma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma c (singular definite pumaen, plural indefinite pumaer)

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

   Synonym: (rare) bjergløve

• “puma” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

puma f (genitive singular pumu, plural pumur)

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

• puma on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fo

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.

• IPA^(key): /py.ma/

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puma m (plural pumas)

1. puma (mammal)

• → Romanian: puma

• “puma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

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

puma (plural pumák)

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

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

puma m (invariable)

1. puma

• ڤوما

Borrowed from English puma, from Quechuan puma.

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

puma (Jawi spelling ڤوما, plural puma-puma)

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

• kugar / کوݢر

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

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

1. a puma, Puma concolor

• “puma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “puma” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

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

1. a puma, Puma concolor

• “puma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Spanish puma.^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: pu‧ma

puma f

1. puma, cougar

   Synonym: kuguar

• “puma”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “puma”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

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

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -umɐ
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

puma m or (nonstandard) f (plural pumas)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:puma

• “puma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “puma”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “puma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Proto-Quechuan *puma; compare Classical Quechua puma.

puma

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

• Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2005), “puma”, in Diccionario quechua-español-quechua/Qheswa-español-qheswa simi taqe‎^[4], Cuzco: Regional Government of Cuzco

Borrowed from French puma.

puma f (uncountable)

1. puma

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

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

pȕma f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ма)

1. puma

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

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

puma m

1. plural of pumu

• Sicilian: Puma (Sicilian surname)
  • → Italian: Puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma m

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

• IPA^(key): /puma/, [ˈpuma]
• Rhymes: -uma
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

Borrowed from Quechua puma, poma, which came into European languages through Spanish puma. First attested in the 20th century.^[1]

puma f

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

Inherited from Old Slovak puma, Borrowed from Germanic.

puma f (relational adjective pumový)

1. bomb

• “puma”, 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): /pùːma/

púma f

1. puma, mountain lion (Puma concolor)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

Borrowed from Quechua puma.

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

puma m (plural pumas)

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

• “puma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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-puma (infinitive kupuma)

1. to exhale
2. to throb, pulsate

Conjugation of -puma
Positive present -napuma Subjunctive -pume Negative -pumi Imperative singular puma
Infinitives
Positive kupuma Negative kutopuma
Imperatives
Singular puma Plural pumeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hupuma Positive past positive subject concord + -lipuma Negative past negative subject concord + -kupuma
Positive present (positive subject concord + -napuma) Singular Plural 1st person ninapuma/napuma tunapuma 2nd person unapuma mnapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapuma wanapuma other classes positive subject concord + -napuma
Negative present (negative subject concord + -pumi) Singular Plural 1st person sipumi hatupumi 2nd person hupumi hampumi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapumi hawapumi other classes negative subject concord + -pumi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tapuma Negative future negative subject concord + -tapuma
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pume) Singular Plural 1st person nipume tupume 2nd person upume mpume 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apume wapume other classes positive subject concord + -pume
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipume Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepuma Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepuma Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipuma Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipuma
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apuma) Singular Plural 1st person napuma twapuma 2nd person wapuma mwapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apuma wapuma m-mi(III/IV) wapuma yapuma ji-ma(V/VI) lapuma yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapuma vyapuma n(IX/X) yapuma zapuma u(XI) wapuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwapuma pa(XVI) papuma mu(XVIII) mwapuma
Perfect positive subject concord + -mepuma "Already" positive subject concord + -meshapuma "Not yet" negative subject concord + -japuma "If/When" positive subject concord + -kipuma "If not" positive subject concord + -sipopuma Consecutive kapuma / positive subject concord + -kapuma Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapume
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nipuma -tupuma 2nd person -kupuma -wapuma/-kupumeni/-wapumeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpuma -wapuma m-mi(III/IV) -upuma -ipuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lipuma -yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipuma -vipuma n(IX/X) -ipuma -zipuma u(XI) -upuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kupuma pa(XVI) -papuma mu(XVIII) -mupuma Reflexive -jipuma
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -puma- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -pumaye -pumao m-mi(III/IV) -pumao -pumayo ji-ma(V/VI) -pumalo -pumayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -pumacho -pumavyo n(IX/X) -pumayo -pumazo u(XI) -pumao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -pumako pa(XVI) -pumapo mu(XVIII) -pumamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -puma) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yepuma -opuma m-mi(III/IV) -opuma -yopuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lopuma -yopuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopuma -vyopuma n(IX/X) -yopuma -zopuma u(XI) -opuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kopuma pa(XVI) -popuma mu(XVIII) -mopuma
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Conversive: -pumua (“to breathe; to rest”)

-puma

1. to burst

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Spanish puma. At least since the 1990s in (sense 2).

puma c

2. cougar, mountain lion, puma, Puma concolor
4. (slang) a fox (very sexy woman)

   Wow, vilken puma!

   Wow, what a fox!

   en riktig puma

   a real fox

Cougar is sometimes used as a loanword in the English sense.

• “puma”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “puma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “puma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Fula Ordboken
• Slangopedia

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /puˈma/

puma (definite accusative pumayı, plural pumalar)

1. cougar, puma, mountain lion, any wild felid of the species Puma concolor, native to the Americas

   Synonym: dağ aslanı

• “puma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “puma”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “puma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3905
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “puma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük