puki
See also: púki, puķi, pūķi, pūķī, and пуки
English
Noun
puki (plural pukis)
- A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
- 2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:
- First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.
- 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:
- She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.
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- Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
- 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:
- Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
- 2008, Deborah Morgenthal & Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:
- I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..
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Anagrams
- UKIP, kipu
Asi
Noun
pukî
- (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina
Cebuano
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧ki
Noun
puki
- the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
- the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
- the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)
Finnish
Verb
puki
- third-person singular past indicative of pukea
Anagrams
- kipu
Hungarian
Etymology
From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”)[1] (compare also pukkad (“to burst”)), possibly influenced by the onomatopoeic stem of púzik (“to fart”, childish); with the diminutive -i.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpuki]
- Hyphenation: pu‧ki
- Rhymes: -ki
Noun
puki (plural pukik)
- (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)
- Synonyms: szellentés, púzás
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | puki | pukik |
| accusative | pukit | pukikat |
| dative | pukinak | pukiknak |
| instrumental | pukival | pukikkal |
| causal-final | pukiért | pukikért |
| translative | pukivá | pukikká |
| terminative | pukiig | pukikig |
| essive-formal | pukiként | pukikként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | pukiban | pukikban |
| superessive | pukin | pukikon |
| adessive | pukinál | pukiknál |
| illative | pukiba | pukikba |
| sublative | pukira | pukikra |
| allative | pukihoz | pukikhoz |
| elative | pukiból | pukikból |
| delative | pukiról | pukikról |
| ablative | pukitól | pukiktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | pukié | pukiké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | pukiéi | pukikéi |
| Possessive forms of puki | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | pukim | pukijaim |
| 2nd person sing. | pukid | pukijaid |
| 3rd person sing. | pukija | pukijai |
| 1st person plural | pukink | pukijaink |
| 2nd person plural | pukitok | pukijaitok |
| 3rd person plural | pukijuk | pukijaik |
Derived terms
- pukizik
Compound words
- pukipárna
References
- puki in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN (The online version is available with registration for one 2-hour free trial per month.)
Anagrams
- kipu, kupi
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puki/
- Rhymes: -uki, -ki, -i
Noun
puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki, informal 1st possessive pukiku, 2nd possessive pukimu, 3rd possessive pukinya)
- (vulgar, anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)
- Synonym: faraj
Further reading
- “puki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Pangutaran Sama
Noun
puki
- (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)
Sakizaya
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Noun
puki
- (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧kì
- IPA(key): /ˈpuki/, [ˈpu.xɪ]
- IPA(key): /ˈpukiʔ/, [ˈpu.xɪʔ]
Noun
puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)
- Alternative form of puke