puwa

• (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Leyte) IPA^(key): /puˈa/ [ˈpwa]
• Hyphenation: pu‧wa

puwá

1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Southern Leyte) alternative form of pula

puwá

1. (Metro Cebu, Bohol, Southern Leyte) alternative form of pula

For quotations using this term, see Citations:puwa.

From Proto-Ngayarda *puka, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *puka.

• IPA^(key): /puwa/

puwa

1. (nominal) rotten

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

• pua — Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Spanish púa (“plectrum; pick”), from Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to sting”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpua/ [ˈpuː.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: pu‧wa

puwa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏ)

1. (music) plectrum; guitar pick

   Synonym: plektro

• “puwa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• upaw