puya

From Manipuri ꯄꯨꯌꯥ (pooyaa).

puya (plural puyas)

1. A group of books written in Ancient Meitei language, mostly sacred to Sanamahism.

From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.

puya (plural puyas)

1. (botany) A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:

     The puya 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.

• ay up, ayup, yaup

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

• puyar

puya

1. child

• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: pu‧ya

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pūgia, from Latin pūgiō (“dagger”).

puya f (plural puyas)

1. (bullfighting) sharp point on the tip of the vara (bullfighter's lance)
2. jibe; taunt

• pulla

puya

1. (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“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 corresponding lemma form.

puya

1. inflection of puyar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “puya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014