Translingual

Symbol

Pu

1. (chemistry) Symbol for plutonium.

Chuukese

Noun

pu

1. betel nut

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pue, pues, puent, pus, put, pût

Etymology 1

Verb

pu ‎(intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of pouvoir

Etymology 2

Verb

pu

1. (falconry) past participle of paître

Japanese

Romanization

pu

1. rōmaji reading of ぷ
2. rōmaji reading of プ

Lojban

Etymology

From purci.

Cmavo

pu ‎(selma'o PU PU)

1. (subordinating conjunction) before
2. (adverbial particle) past tense tag^[1]

Usage notes

• The elidable terminator for a subordinate clause begun with "pu lenu" is kei.

Antonyms

• ba

Related terms

• pu'o

References

1. ↑ Lojban Reference Grammar, Chapter 2, §17

Mandarin

Romanization

pu (Zhuyin ㄆㄨ˙)

1. Nonstandard spelling of pū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pù.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *puu, from Proto-Uralic *puxe.

Noun

pu

1. tree
2. wood

Inflection

Derived terms

• puine
• birbincpu
• jablon'pu
• kananpu
• tugipu
• vinpu
• voipu
• öpu
• pujaugad
• pukujo
• pusep

References

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

Yupiltepeque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu/

Noun

pu

1. hand

References

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)
• Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages