puas

See also: PUAs and púas

English

Noun

puas

  1. plural of pua

Anagrams

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin passus.

Noun

puas m

  1. step

French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

puas

  1. second-person singular past historic of puer

Anagrams

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Adjective

puas

  1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay puas, from Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpuas/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧as
  • Rhymes: -as, -s

Adjective

puas

  1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Derived terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puas/
  • Rhymes: -uas, -was, -as

Adjective

puas (Jawi spelling ڤواس)

  1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Derived terms

Further reading

Tagalog

Noun

puás (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏᜐ᜔)

  1. Obsolete spelling of puwas

West Makian

Etymology

From East Makian poas (paddle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.as̪/

Noun

puas

  1. paddle

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puə̯˩/

Particle

puas

  1. 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 (MC bjuX, “to spoil, rot”).[1][2]

Adjective

puas

  1. to destroy, to spoil, to make or become useless
    puas lawmspoiled, useless

Etymology 3

Tone change from pua.

Numeral

puas

  1. Alternative form of pua (hundred)

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 238.
  1. Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 281.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
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