puas
French
Pronunciation
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Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay puas, from Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpuas/
- Hyphenation: pu‧as
- Rhymes: -as, -s
Derived terms
- berpuas
- dipuaskan
- kepuasan
- ketidakpuasan
- memuaskan
- pemuas
- pemuasan
- sepuas-puasnya
- terpuaskan
Further reading
- “puas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puas/
- Rhymes: -uas, -was, -as
Derived terms
- kepuasan
- memuaskan
Further reading
- “puas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puə̯˩/
Particle
puas
- interrogative particle, inserted in front of a verb to turn a declarative sentence into a question
- Koj puas xav noj? ― Do you want to eat?
Etymology 2
From Proto-Hmong *bu̯aᴮ (“bad, spoiled”), likely borrowed from Middle Chinese 腐 (MC bjuX, “to spoil, rot”).[1][2]
Etymology 3
Tone change from pua.
References
- Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 281.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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