pacu

From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.

pacu (plural pacus)

1. Any of certain freshwater fish of the family Serrasalmidae, endemic to South America; they are characterised by squarish, human-like teeth and a mainly herbivorous diet.

   Coordinate terms: piranha, silver dollar

• Pacus form a paraphyletic group.

• black pacu (Colossoma macropomum, Myleus schomburgkii, or Piaractus brachypomus)
• red-bellied pacu (Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum)

• A cup, A-cup, Cupa, Puac, caup

pacu

1. imperative of paci

Inherited from Malay pacu (“spur”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡ʃu/ [ˈpa.t͡ʃu]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃu
• Syllabification: pa‧cu

pacu (plural pacu-pacu)

1. spur, toothed or spiked wheel fixed to one's boot for prodding a horse rode on

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

• IPA^(key): /pa.t͡ʃu/
• Rhymes: -acu, -cu, -u

pacu (Jawi spelling ڤاچو, plural pacu-pacu)

1. spur, toothed or spiked wheel fixed to one's boot for prodding a horse rode on.

pacu (Jawi spelling ڤاچو)

1. to drive
2. to spur
3. to urge

• Indonesian: pacu

• "pacu" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “pacu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

pacu

1. third-person plural imperfect active of pacati (“to cook”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡su/
• Rhymes: -at͡su
• Syllabification: pa‧cu

pacu m

1. locative/vocative singular of pac

• pacú (1931-prescribed spelling)

Borrowed from Old Tupi paku.

• Rhymes: -u

pacu m (plural pacus)

1. pacu (any of several species of South American fishes)

• pacuzinho (diminutive)
• pacuzão (augmentative)