pus

pus

See also: -pus, PUS, Puś, puss, and puś

Translingual

Symbol

pus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto.

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌs

Noun

pus (uncountable)

1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Derived terms

• pussy, pusy
• puss (alternate spelling)

Translations

fluid found in regions of infection

Abkhaz: а-ҭәа́ (a-tʷá) Aklanon: nana' Albanian: qelb (sq) m Arabic: قَيْح‎ m (qayḥ), صَدِيد‎ m (ṣadīd), مِدَة‎ f (mida) Egyptian Arabic: مدة‎ f (meda), صديد‎ m (ṣadīd) Armenian: թարախ (hy) (tʿarax) Aromanian: pronjiu m, pronju, proanji, proanje Assamese: পূঁজ (pũz) Avar: хьверд (x̂ʷerd), рецӏцӏ (reccʼ) Azerbaijani: irin (az) Bashkir: эрен (eren) Basque: please add this translation if you can Bats: ნოტყ (noṭq̇) Belarusian: гной m (hnoj) Bengali: পূঁয (pū̃ĵ) Borôro: adudu Bulgarian: гной (bg) m (gnoj) Burmese: ပြည် (my) (prany) Cappadocian Greek: ταράχι (taráchi) Catalan: pus (ca) m Central Melanau: nanak Chamicuro: kajshali Chechen: ноткъа (notqʼa) Cherokee: ᎤᎦ (uga) Chinese: Cantonese: 膿／脓, 脓 (nung4) Mandarin: 膿／脓 (zh) (nóng) Czech: hnis (cs) m Danish: pus n, materie c Dutch: etter (nl) m, pus (nl) n Esperanto: puso Faroese: vágur m Fijian: nana (fj) Finnish: mätä (fi), märkä (fi), visva (fi) French: pus (fr) m Galician: pus (gl) m, brume (gl) m, veleno m Georgian: ჩირქი (čirki) German: Eiter (de) m Greek: πύον (el) n (pýon) Ancient: πύον n (púon) Hebrew: מֻגְלָה‎ (he) f (muglá) Hindi: पीब (pīb), मवाद (hi) (mavād), पस (hi) m (pas), पीप (hi) m (pīp), पूय (hi) m (pūy) Hungarian: genny (hu) Icelandic: gröftur (is) m Ido: puso (io) Indonesian: nanah (id) Ingush: наткъа (natqʼa) Interlingua: pus, pure Irish: angadh m, braon m Isnag: nana Italian: pus (it) m Japanese: 膿 (ja) (うみ, umi) Kazakh: ірің (ırıñ) Khmer: ខ្ទុះ (km) (khtuh), ទឹករងៃ (tɨk rɔngɨy) Konkani: पू Korean: 고름 (ko) (goreum) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nêm (ku) Kyrgyz: ириң (ky) (iriŋ) Ladin: mercia f Lao: ໜອງ (lo) (nǭng), ບຸບໂພ (bup phō) Latin: pūs n Latvian: strutas (lv) f pl Laz: თხომური (txomuri) Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Low German: Etter m Luxembourgish: Eeter m Macedonian: гној m (gnoj) Malay: nanah Malayalam: ചലം (ml) (calaṃ), പഴുപ്പ് (ml) (paḻuppŭ) Maltese: materja Mansaka: nana Maori: ero, tarawai Maranao: nana' Mingrelian: თხომური (txomuri) Mongolian: идээ бээр (idee beer) Navajo: his Nepali: पीप (pīp) Norman: pouôrrituthe f (Jersey) Norwegian: Bokmål: puss (no) m or n, verk (no) m Nynorsk: puss m or n, verk m Ojibwe: mini Old Javanese: nanah Old Norse: vágr m Oriya: ପୂଯ (or) (pujô) Ossetian: хӕф (xæf) Persian: چرک‎ (fa) (čerk), استیم‎ (fa) (estim) Plautdietsch: Padikj m Polish: ropa (pl) f Portuguese: pus (pt) m Quechua: giya, isgoi, pogro Romanian: puroi (ro) n Russian: гной (ru) m (gnoj) Sanskrit: पूय (sa) m or n (pūya) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гно̑ј m Roman: gnȏj (sh) m Slovak: hnis (sk) m Slovene: gnoj (sl) m Somali: malax Spanish: pus (es) m Svan: ფაქა̈რ (pakär), შალა̈̄რ (šalǟr), თა̈̄რ (tǟr) Swahili: usaha (sw) Swedish: var (sv) n Tajik: чирк (tg) (čirk) Tatar: эрен (tt) (eren) Tausug: nana Telugu: చీము (te) (cīmu), పూయము (te) (pūyamu) Thai: หนอง (th) (nɔ̌ɔng) Tibetan: རྣག (rnag) Tocharian B: sekwe Turkish: cerahat (tr), iltihap (tr), irin (tr) Turkmen: iriň, çylpyk Ukrainian: гній m (hnij) Uyghur: يىرىڭ‎ (yiring) Uzbek: yiring (uz) Vietnamese: mủ (vi) Walloon: matire (wa) f, pus (wa) m Welsh: madredd m, crawn m Westrobothnian: wog m, reodvätn n Yiddish: אייטער‎ m (eyter)

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, UPs, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

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Albanian

Etymology

Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m (indefinite plural puse, definite singular pusi, definite plural puset)

1. well (source of water)

Declension

Declension of pus

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)			definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)		singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	(një) pus	(disa) puse		pusi	puset
accusative (kallëzore)	(një) pus	(disa) puse		pusin	puset
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	(një) pusi	(disa) puseve		pusit	pusevet
dative (dhanore)	(një) pusi	(disa) puseve		pusit	pusevet
ablative (rrjedhore) (prej)	(një) pusi	(disa) pusesh		pusit	pusevet

Synonyms

• ubël

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Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

Noun

pus

1. cat

   Synonym: tusa

   Lebe bai beta kasi makang pus dar mau kas makang orang pamalas.

   I would rather give food to the cat than to give food to the lazy.

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same[1].

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Related terms

• purulent

Etymology 2

From Old Catalan pus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Compare Occitan pus, French plus.

Adverb

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   no en vull pus

   I don't want (any) more of it

Usage notes

Found in expressions like despús-ahir o despús-demà

Etymology 3

From Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

Conjunction

pus

1. after

References

1. “pus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Further reading

• “pus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

• sup

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Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʏs/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

Noun

pus n or m (uncountable)

1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)

   Synonym: etter

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: pus

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Finnish

Etymology

See pusu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/, [ˈpus̠]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification^(key): pus

Interjection

pus

1. (informal) mwah, smooch

See also

• pus kii

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus, meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

Related terms

• purulent

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

pus m pl

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural of the past participle of paître

Further reading

• “pus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

Noun

pus f (plural pus)

1. pus

   Synonyms: materia, apostema

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pos, pus, from Latin post.

Alternative forms

• pos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

Preposition

pus

1. (archaic) after, behind

References

• “pus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pus” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pus” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pus” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /pˠʌsˠ/

Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. (anatomy) snout

   Synonyms: cab, glomhar, gulba, smaois, smuilc, smúrlach, smut, soc, srubh

Declension

Declension of pus

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative pus pusa Vocative a phuis a phusa Genitive puis pus Dative pus pusa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an pus na pusa Genitive an phuis na bpus Dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusa

Alternative declension

Declension of pus

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative pus pusanna Vocative a phuis a phusanna Genitive puis pusanna Dative pus pusanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an pus na pusanna Genitive an phuis na bpusanna Dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusanna

Derived terms

• pusach (“pouting, in a huff; whimpering, ready to cry”, adjective)
• pusaire m, pusaí m, pusaíoch m (“sulky person; blubberer, whimperer”)
• puslach m (“muzzle”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pus	phus	bpus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 bus (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation: pùs

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Related terms

• mucopus
• pio-
• purulento
• purulenza
• pustola

 

Further reading

• pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• sup

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *puos, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit पुवस् (púvas), Ancient Greek πύον (púon), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puːs/, [puːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pus/, [pus]

Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūs	pūra
Genitive	pūris	pūrum
Dative	pūrī	pūribus
Accusative	pūs	pūra
Ablative	pūre	pūribus
Vocative	pūs	pūra

Derived terms

• pūrulentus
• suppūrō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: pronjiu, proanji
• Catalan: pus
• → Dutch: pus (learned)
  • → Papiamentu: pus
• → English: pus
• French: pus
• Galician: pus
• Italian: pus, purino
• Portuguese: pus
• Romanian: puroi
• Spanish: pus

References

• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

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Lushootseed

Noun

pus

1. Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

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Miskito

Noun

pus

1. cat

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Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat

Synonyms

• katt
• pusekatt, kattepus

References

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

1. more
   • 19^th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:

     Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !

     But I am happier than a king!

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)ʃ/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/

• Hyphenation: pus

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pus

1. plural of pu

Etymology 3

Latin posuī

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 234:

     Não pus nada no suco!

     I didn't put anything in the juice!

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Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost, where this was preserved).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pus]

Participle

pus

1. past participle of pune

Declension

Declension of pus

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	pus		pusă	puși	puse
	definite	pusul		pusa	pușii	pusele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	pus		puse	puși	puse
	definite	pusului		pusei	pușilor	puselor

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Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m or f (plural puses)

1. pus

Further reading

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

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Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bus (“steam”). Cognate withTuvan бус (bus, “steam”),Bashkir боҫ (boθ, “steam”),Chuvash пӑс (păs, “steam”),etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	pus
Definite accusative	pusu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pus	puslar
Definite accusative	pusu	pusları
Dative	pusa	puslara
Locative	pusta	puslarda
Ablative	pustan	puslardan
Genitive	pusun	pusların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular pusum puslarım 2nd singular pusun pusların 3rd singular pusu pusları 1st plural pusumuz puslarımız 2nd plural pusunuz puslarınız 3rd plural pusları pusları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumu puslarımı 2nd singular pusunu puslarını 3rd singular pusunu puslarını 1st plural pusumuzu puslarımızı 2nd plural pusunuzu puslarınızı 3rd plural puslarını puslarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular pusuma puslarıma 2nd singular pusuna puslarına 3rd singular pusuna puslarına 1st plural pusumuza puslarımıza 2nd plural pusunuza puslarınıza 3rd plural puslarına puslarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumda puslarımda 2nd singular pusunda puslarında 3rd singular pusunda puslarında 1st plural pusumuzda puslarımızda 2nd plural pusunuzda puslarınızda 3rd plural puslarında puslarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumdan puslarımdan 2nd singular pusundan puslarından 3rd singular pusundan puslarından 1st plural pusumuzdan puslarımızdan 2nd plural pusunuzdan puslarınızdan 3rd plural puslarından puslarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular pusumun puslarımın 2nd singular pusunun puslarının 3rd singular pusunun puslarının 1st plural pusumuzun puslarımızın 2nd plural pusunuzun puslarınızın 3rd plural puslarının puslarının

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Tzotzil

FWOTD – 19 January 2017

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

Noun

pus

1. steam bath

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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Walloon

Etymology

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“many”).

Adverb

pus

1. more