# puka
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuːkə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːkə

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian puka (“hole”).

#### Noun

puka (plural pukas)
* A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).

#### Noun

puka (plural pukas)
* Alternative form of pooka
** 2012, Nwaocha Ogechukwu, The Devil: What Does He Look Like?, →ISBN, page 45:In contrast, the puca (faeries) of Celtic folklore instill a similar psychological fear in those who believe in them just as the devil in Christianity creates fear in Christians

### Etymology 3

From Maori [Term?].

#### Noun

puka
* The evergreen tree Meryta sinclairii, endemic to New Zealand.
    Synonym: pukanui
* The epiphytic plant Griselinia lucida, native to New Zealand.
    Synonym: akapuka

### Anagrams

* Kaup, kapu

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuka/ [ˈpu.ka]
* Hyphenation: pu‧ka

### Noun

púka (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜃ)
* vigil
    Synonyms: lamay, belar

#### Derived terms

* magpuka
* pagpuka
* pukahan

## Guaraní
### Verb

puka
* to laugh

#### Conjugation
## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Maori puta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.ka/, [ˈpu.kə]

### Noun

puka
* hole, gate, doorway
    puka lani, puka o kalanigate of heaven, heaven's gate
* a snare, a trap
    Synonym: kīpuka

#### Derived terms

* pukaball

#### Descendants

* → English: pooka

### Verb

puka
* (intransitive) to pass through and out
    Coordinate term: (transitive) hoʻopuka
* (intransitive) to graduate
    Coordinate term: (transitive) hoʻopuka
* to be said, to be spoken, to be issued
    Coordinate term: (transitive: to say, to speak, to issue) hoʻopuka
* to win, to profit, to gain

### Further reading

* Entry at Wehewehe.org

## Kanakanabu
### Noun

puka
* owl

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puka (“any littoral Pisonia, Hernandia spp.”) – compare with Tongan puka and Samoan puʻa vai (“Pisonia grandis”), Samoan puʻa (“ibid., Hernandia nymphaeifolia”). Modern sense of introduced cabbage from large size of its leaves.

### Noun

puka
* cabbage
* Meryta sinclairii
* Griselinia lucida

#### Derived terms

* pukapuka
* pukatea

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 369
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 3: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 167-70
* ↑ “Proto-Polynesian Etymologies: Puka”, in Te Māra Reo‎, Benson Family Trust, 2024

### Further reading

* “puka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.ka/
* Rhymes: -uka
* Syllabification: pu‧ka

### Verb

puka
* third-person singular present of pukać

## Quechua
### Adjective

puka
* red

#### See also

Colors in Quechua · llimphikuna (layout · text) :
| yuraq | uqi | titi, yana |
| puka; panti | killmu, willapi, aruma (see also: q'illu); allqa, ch'umpi | q'illu |
| | q'umir, waylla | |
| qhusi | uqi | anqas |
| panti | panti; kulli, sañi, | |

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German puke.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²pʉ̟ːka/

### Noun

puka c
* (music) kettledrum

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | puka | pukas |
| singular | definite | pukan | pukans |
| plural | indefinite | pukor | pukors |
| plural | definite | pukorna | pukornas |

#### Synonyms

* timpani

#### Derived terms

* pukslagare

### References

* puka in Svensk ordbok (SO)

### Anagrams

* kupa

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /puˈkaʔ/ [pʊˈxaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: pu‧ka

### Adjective

pukâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃ)
* rotten (referring to the end of a post that has been long in the ground)
    Synonym: bulok

### Anagrams

* upak

## Warlpiri
### Adjective

puka
* rotten