puya

puya

See also: Puya and PuYa

English

Etymology 1

From Manipuri ꯄꯨꯌꯥ (puyā).

Noun

puya (plural puyas)

1. A Meetei scripture

Etymology 2

From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.

Noun

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 2000, p. 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.

Anagrams

• ay up, ayup, yaup

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Asturian

Noun

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

Related terms

• puyar

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Capiznon

Noun

puya

1. child

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʝa/ [ˈpu.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpuʝa/ [ˈpu.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈpuʃa/ [ˈpu.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpuʒa/ [ˈpu.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: pu‧ya

Etymology 1

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

Noun

puya f (plural puyas)

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

Derived terms

• puyazo

See also

• pulla

Interjection

puya

1. (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“fuck!”))

   ¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!

   Oh fudge, we missed the bus!

   ¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!

   Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!

   Synonym: púchica

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

puya

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

Further reading

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