puya

From Manipuri ꯄꯨꯌꯥ (puyā).

puya (plural puyas)

1. Any of a group of books written in the Old Manipuri language, mostly sacred to Sanamahism.

From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.

puya (plural puyas)

1. (botany) A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45:

     The puya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.

• ay up, ayup, yaup

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʝa/ [ˈpu.ʝa]
• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: pu‧ya

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

• puyar

• “puya” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

puya

1. child

• Rhymes: -uʝa
• Syllabification: pu‧ya

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pūgia, from Latin pūgiō (“dagger”).

puya f (plural puyas)

1. (bullfighting) sharp point on the tip of the vara (bullfighter's lance)
2. jibe; taunt

• pulla

puya

1. (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta (“fuck!”))

   Synonym: púchica

   ¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus!

   Oh fudge, we missed the bus!

   ¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida!

   Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

puya

1. inflection of puyar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “puya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024