puga

From Spanish fuga, from Latin fuga, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂.

• Hyphenation: pu‧ga

puga

1. To escape.

Compare Tagalog piga.

puga

1. To squeeze.
2. To wring.

• púa

Unknown; perhaps related to Latin pungō (“I prick”) and pūgiō (“dagger”).[1] Cognate with Portuguese pua and Spanish púa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɣa̝/

puga f (plural pugas)

1. one of many large nails used to fasten a metal tyre to each one of the wheels of the traditional Galician cart

   Synonym: raigada

2. scion, graft

   Synonyms: esgallo, tano

3. prong; sharp end

• “puga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “puga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “puga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Indo-European *pouga. Cognates include Ancient Greek πυγή (pugḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паѹга (pauga), пѫга (pǫga).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpʊ.ɡa]

puga f (genitive pugae); first declension

1. (anatomy) buttock

First declension.

• clūnis
• cūlus
• natis
• pōdex

• puga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

pugá

1. eggs of crabs or fish

• pugahan

Borrowed from Spanish fuga (“escape”), from Latin fuga.

puga

1. flight; escape

• pugahan
• pumuga

• pagtakas
• pagtanan

puga

1. rump, bottom thick part

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “гузка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika