FromManipuriꯄꯨꯌꯥ(pooyaa).
puya (pluralpuyas)
- Any of a group ofbooks written in theOld Manipuri language, mostly sacred toSanamahism.
FromSpanishpuya, fromMapudungunpuüya.
puya (pluralpuyas)
- (botany) A member of thegenusPuya ofbromeliadplants.[from 19th c.]
2000, Michael Bright,Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published2000, page45:Thepuya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.
Translations
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:普亞鳳梨 /普亚凤梨(pǔyà fènglí)
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- IPA(key): /ˈpuʝa/[ˈpu.ʝa]
- Rhymes:-uʝa
- Hyphenation:pu‧ya
puya f (pluralpuyes)
- auction(public sales event)
- bid
puya
- child
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)/ˈpuʝa/[ˈpu.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs)/ˈpuʃa/[ˈpu.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)/ˈpuʒa/[ˈpu.ʒa]
- Rhymes:-uʝa
- Syllabification:pu‧ya
Inherited fromVulgar Latin*pūgia, fromLatinpūgiō(“dagger”).
puya f (pluralpuyas)
- (bullfighting) sharp point on the tip of thevara (bullfighter's lance)
- jibe;taunt
puya
- (El Salvador, euphemistic)fudge (euphemism of the interjectionputa(“fuck!”))
- Synonym:púchica
¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!- Oh fudge, we missed the bus!
¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!- Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
puya
- inflection ofpuyar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
