puki

See also: púki, puķi, pūķi, pūķī, and пуки

English

Noun

puki (plural pukis)

1. 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.

2. 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..

Anagrams

• UKIP, kipu

Asi

Noun

pukî

1. (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina

Cebuano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

Noun

puki

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
2. the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
3. the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)

Finnish

Verb

puki

1. third-person singular past indicative of pukea

Anagrams

• kipu

Hungarian

Etymology

From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”) (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)

1. (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

 

Anagrams

• kipu, kupi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay puki, from Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ki/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

Noun

puki (first-person possessive pukiku, second-person possessive pukimu, third-person possessive pukinya)

1. (vulgar, anatomy) vagina

   Synonyms: memek, tempik, meki

Further reading

• “puki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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)

1. (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

1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

Sakizaya

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *puki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.ˈki/, [pu.ˈki]

Noun

puki

1. (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuki/, [ˈpu.xɪ]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpukiʔ/, [ˈpu.xɪʔ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ki

Noun

puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)

1. Alternative form of puke