puas

puas

1. plural of pua

• UAPs, AUPs, Apsu, sapu, SPUA, USAP, Apus, pa'us, APUs, paus, upas

From Latin passus.

puas m

1. step

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puas

1. second-person singular past historic of puer

• supa

From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

puas

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

From Malay puas, from Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuas/
• Hyphenation: pu‧as
• Rhymes: -as, -s

puas

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

• “puas” 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.

From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

• IPA^(key): /puas/
• Rhymes: -uas, -was, -as

puas (Jawi spelling ڤواس)

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

• “puas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas. Sense of 'satisfied in general' as a semantic loan from Indonesian puas

puas

1. satisfied upon other's suffering or misfortune; to feel schadenfreude
2. satisfied (in general); content

   Synonym: sugema

puas

1. word to express anger or irritation; take that!

   Puas tah katangkep! Bongan saha ngebut?

   Thank goodness you got caught! Whose fault was it for speeding?

• "puas" in Maman Sumantri, Atjep Djamaludin, Achmad Patoni, R.H. Moch. Koerdie, M.O. Koesman, Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia
• "POEWAS", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

puás (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏᜐ᜔)

1. obsolete spelling of puwas

• usap, upas, pusa

From East Makian poas (“paddle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.as̪/

puas

1. paddle

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): /puə̯˩/

puas

1. interrogative particle, inserted in front of a verb to turn a declarative sentence into a question

   Koj puas xav noj? ― Do you want to eat?

From Proto-Hmong *bu̯aᴮ (“bad, spoiled”), likely borrowed from Middle Chinese 腐 (MC bjuX, “to spoil, rot”).^[1][2]

puas

1. to destroy, to spoil, to make or become useless

   puas lawm ― spoiled, useless

Tone change from pua.

puas

1. alternative form of pua (“hundred”)

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 238.