Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧ga

Verb

• puga

1. To escape.

Etymology 2

Compare Tagalog piga.

Verb

puga

1. To squeeze.
2. To wring.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pouga. Cognates include Ancient Greek πυγή ‎(pugḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паѹга ‎(pauga), пѫга ‎(pǫga).

Noun

puga f ‎(genitive pugae); first declension

1. (anatomy) buttock

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• clunis
• culus
• natis
• podex

References

• puga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PUGA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Veps

Noun

puga

1. rump, bottom thick part

Inflection

References

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