puya

See also: Puya and PuYa

English

Etymology 1

From Manipuri ꯄꯨꯌꯥ (pooyaa).

Noun

puya (plural puyas)

1. A group of books written in Ancient Meitei language, mostly sacred to Sanamahism.

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, published 2000, page 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

Asturian

Noun

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

Related terms

• puyar

Capiznon

Noun

puya

1. child

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

Inherited 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

Etymology 2

Interjection

puya

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

   Synonym: púchica

   ¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!

   Oh fudge, we missed the bus!

   ¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!

   Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!

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