Puma

See also: puma, pumă, and púma

Translingual

Puma concolor (mountain lion)

Etymology

From Quechua puma.

Proper noun

Puma f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Felidae – mountain lion, puma, or cougar.

Hypernyms

• (species): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Feliformia – suborder; Felidae – family; Felinae – subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Puma concolor – sole extant species

References

• Puma (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Puma on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Puma on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Puma in Mammal Species of the World^[2] at Bucknell.
• Puma at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Puma at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• “Puma”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026
• Puma at iNaturalist
• Puma at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
• Puma available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Puma

1. A village in the Solomon Islands.
2. An administrative ward in the Singida Rural district of Tanzania.
3. A Kiranti language spoken in Nepal.

Etymology 2

A pair of Puma lifestyle shoes

See puma; the name was chosen to highlight ideas of strength, agility, and grace often associated with the large cat.

Noun

Puma (plural Pumas)

1. An athletic shoe or other piece of athletic gear of a German-based brand of that name.
   • 1989, Daniel Lynch, chapter 5, in Bad Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books, Windsor Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 42:

     Joe Fortune shook his head, swung his legs over the edge of the bunk, and put on his Pumas.

Further reading

• Puma (brand) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• paum, upma

German

Etymology

18th century, from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːma/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Puma m (strong, genitive Pumas, plural Pumas)

1. cougar, puma

   Synonyms: Berglöwe, Silberlöwe, (very rare) Kuguar

Declension

Declension of Puma [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Puma	die	Pumas
genitive	eines	des	Pumas	der	Pumas
dative	einem	dem	Puma	den	Pumas
accusative	einen	den	Puma	die	Pumas

Descendants

• →? Czech: puma
• → Faroese: puma
• → Finnish: puuma
• → Hungarian: puma
• →? Swedish: puma

Further reading

• “Puma”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)
• “Puma” in Duden online