# puga
## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

From Spanish fuga, from Latin fuga, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuɡa/ [ˈpu.ɡɐ]
* Hyphenation: pu‧ga

#### Verb

puga (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)
* to escape from prison

### Etymology 2

Compare Tagalog piga.

#### Verb

pugâ (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)
* to squeeze
* to wring

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* púa

### Etymology

Unknown; perhaps related to Latin pungō (“I prick”) and pūgiō (“dagger”). Cognate with Portuguese pua and Spanish púa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuɣa̝/

### Noun

puga f (plural pugas)
* one of many large nails used to fasten a metal tyre to each one of the wheels of the traditional Galician cart
    Synonym: raigada
* scion, graft
    Synonyms: esgallo, tano
* prong; sharp end

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “puga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “púa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Kapampangan
### Noun

pugá
* eggs of crabs or fish

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паoуга (paouga), пѫга (pǫga).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpʊɡä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpuːɡä]

### Noun

pūga f (genitive pūgae); first declension
* (anatomy) buttock
    Synonyms: clūnis, natis
** 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Saturae 1.2.133:nē nummī pereant aut pūga aut dēniqua fāma.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* dēpūgis

#### Related terms

* cūlus
* pōdex

### References

* “puga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* puga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* puga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /puˈɡa/ [pʊˈɣa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: pu‧ga

#### Noun

pugá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)
* eggs of crabs or fish

##### Derived terms

* pugahan

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish fuga (“escape”), from Latin fuga.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpuɡa/ [ˈpuː.ɣɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɡa
* Syllabification: pu‧ga

#### Noun

puga (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)
* escape from prison
    Synonyms: pagtakas, pagtanan
* escaped prisoner
    Synonym: takas

##### Derived terms

* ipuga
* pugahan
* pumuga

##### Related terms

* pugante
* repuhiyo

### Further reading

* “puga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

## Tausug
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

### Verb

puga
* to squeeze out fluid

## Veps
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

puga
* rump, bottom thick part

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гузка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika