puki
English
Noun
puki (plural pukis)
- 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.
- 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
Asi
Noun
pukî
Cebuano
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧ki
Noun
puki
- the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina
- the tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)
- the boatlily (Tradescantia spathacea)
Finnish
Verb
puki
- third-person singular past indicative of pukea
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”)[1] (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)
- (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)
- Synonyms: szellentés, púzás
Declension
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 |
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
---|---|---|
1st person sing. | pukim | pukijaim (or pukiim) |
2nd person sing. | pukid | pukijaid (or pukiid) |
3rd person sing. | pukija | pukijai (or pukii) |
1st person plural | pukink | pukijaink (or pukiink) |
2nd person plural | pukitok | pukijaitok (or pukiitok) |
3rd person plural | pukijuk | pukijaik (or pukiik) |
Derived terms
- pukizik
Compound words
- pukipárna
References
- ^ puki in Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (“A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian”). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition →ISBN. Online searchable version (under development)
Anagrams
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
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 of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki. Compare Asi puki, Sakizaya puki and Tagalog puke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puki/
- Rhymes: -uki, -ki, -i
Noun
puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “puki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Pangutaran Sama
Noun
puki
Sakizaya
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *puki.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pu.ˈki/, [pu.ˈki]
Noun
puki
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpuki/ [ˈpuː.xɪ], /ˈpukiʔ/ [ˈpuː.xɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -uki, -ukiʔ
- Syllabification: pu‧ki
Noun
puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)
- alternative form of puke