puku

See also: puķu, pūķu, and -puku

English

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

Etymology 1

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

  1. A small antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii)
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori puku.

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

  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.

Finnish

Etymology

puk- +‎ -u

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpuku]
  • Rhymes: -uku
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ku

Noun

puku

  1. suit, dress
  2. attire, outfit
  3. As modifier in compound terms may also denote changing (of clothes), e.g. in pukukoppi (“changing cubicle”) or pukuhuone (“changing room, locker room”).

Declension
Inflection of puku (Kotus type 1/valo, k-v gradation)
nominative puku puvut
genitive puvun pukujen
partitive pukua pukuja
illative pukuun pukuihin
singular plural
nominative puku puvut
accusative nom. puku puvut
gen. puvun
genitive puvun pukujen
partitive pukua pukuja
inessive puvussa puvuissa
elative puvusta puvuista
illative pukuun pukuihin
adessive puvulla puvuilla
ablative puvulta puvuilta
allative puvulle puvuille
essive pukuna pukuina
translative puvuksi puvuiksi
instructive — puvuin
abessive puvutta puvuitta
comitative — pukuineen

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pouco. Cognates with Kabuverdianu poku.

Pronoun

puku

  1. few

Ingrian

Noun

puku

  1. dress

Italian

Noun

puku (invariable)

  1. puku (Kobus vardonii)

Maori

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpʉːkʉː/

Noun

puku

  1. (anatomy) stomach, belly

Old Tupi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /puˈku/

Adjective

puku

  1. long, elongate

References

Tsou

Noun

puku

  1. owl
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