pus

See also puss

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin pus, meaning the same.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs, IPA: /pʌs/, X-SAMPA: /pVs/
• 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

Translations

fluid found in regions of infection

• Albanian: qelb (sq)
• Arabic: قيح (ar) (qayḥ) m, صديد (ar) (ṣadīd) m, مدة (ar) (mida) f

  Egyptian Arabic: مدة (meda) f, صديد (ṣadīd) m

• Armenian: թարախ (hy) (t’arax) 
• Belarusian: гной (be) (hnoj) m 
• Bulgarian: гной (bg) (gnoj) m 
• Chamicuro: kajshali
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膿 (cmn), 脓 (cmn) (nóng)

• Czech: hnis (cs) m
• Danish: pus (da) n, materie (da) c
• Dutch: etter (nl) m, pus (nl) n
• Esperanto: puso (eo)
• Finnish: mätä (fi), märkä (fi), visva (fi)
• French: pus (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩირქი (ka) (č'irk'i) 
• German: Eiter (de) m
• Greek: πύον (el) (pýon) n 

  Ancient: πύον (pyon) n

• Hindi: पीब (hi) (pīb), मवाद (hi) (mavād)
• Hungarian: genny (hu)
• Icelandic: gröftur (is) m
• Ido: puso
• Irish: braon (ga) m
• Italian: pus m, materia purulenta f
• Japanese: 膿 (ja) (うみ, umi)
• Jèrriais: pouôrrituthe f

• Korean: 고름 (ko) (goreum)
• Kurdish: nêm (ku)
• Lojban: bi'arlitki (bilma litki)
• Macedonian: гној (mk) m
• Malay: nanah (ms)
• Maltese: materja
• Maori: ero (mi)
• Navajo: his
• Persian: چرک (fa) (čerk)
• Polish: ropa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pus (pt) m
• Romanian: puroi (ro) n
• Russian: гной (ru) (gnoj) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гно̑ј (sh) m

  Roman: gnȏj (sh) m

• Slovak: hnis (sk) m
• Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
• Spanish: pus (es) m
• Swedish: var (sv) n
• Tajik: чирк (tg) (čirk) 
• Telugu: చీము (te) (cīmu)
• Thai: หนอง (th) (nŏng)
• Turkish: irin (tr), cerahat (tr), iltihap (tr)
• Ukrainian: гній (uk) (hnij) m 
• Vietnamese: mủ (vi)

Anagrams

• PSU; sup, 'sup, Sup., SUP; ups, UPS; USP

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Albanian

Etymology

Probably from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m

1. well

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French

Etymology 1

From Latin pus, meaning the same.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /py/, X-SAMPA: /py/

• Audio

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

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

Etymology 2

See pouvoir

Verb

pus

1. First-person singular past historic of pouvoir
2. First-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See paître

Verb

pus

1. (extremely rare) Masculine plural past participle of paître

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Old French plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

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

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [pˠʊsˠ]

Noun

pus m (genitive puis, nominative plural pusa)

1. pout
2. snout

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

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.

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Italian

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Synonyms

• materia purulenta
• pus dell'asino

Related terms

• mucopus
• purulento
• purulenza
• pustola
• pio-

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Jèrriais

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

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

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. (mathematics) plus sign

Etymology 2

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

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Latin

Noun

pus n (genitive puris)

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Derived terms

• purulentus, putris

Descendants

English: pus French: pus Italian: pus, purino

Portuguese: pus Romanian: puroi Spanish: pus

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Lojban

Rafsi

pus

1. rafsi of pu'i.

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Miskito

Noun

pus

1. cat

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

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

Verb

pus

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of pôr.
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, 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 form *post, from Latin postus, from positus. (cf. also adăpost, where this was preserved)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [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

See also nepus

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bus, from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Declension

declension of pus

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	pus	puslar
definite accusative (belirtme)	pusu	pusları
dative (yönelme)	pusa	puslara
locative (bulunma)	pusta	puslarda
ablative (çıkma)	pustan	puslardan
genitive (tamlayan)	pusun	pusların

    possessive forms of pus

	singular	plural
benim (my)	pusum	puslarım
senin (your)	pusun	pusların
onun (his/her/its)	pusu	pusları
bizim (our)	pusumuz	puslarımız
sizin (your)	pusunuz	puslarınız
onların (their)	pusu/pusları	pusları

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Walloon

Etymology

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

Adverb

pus

1. more