# 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

* UKIP, kipu

## Asi
### Noun

pukî
* (anatomy, euphemistic) vagina

## 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

* kipu

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the onomatopoeic stem of the verb pukkan (“to pop, burst”) (compare also pukkad (“to burst”)), possibly influenced by the onomatopoeic stem of púzik (“to fart”, childish); with the diminutive -i.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpuki]
* Hyphenation: pu‧ki
* Rhymes: -ki

### Noun

puki (plural pukik)
* (informal, childish, humorous) fart (flatulence)
    Synonyms: szellentés, púzás

#### Derived terms

* pukizik
* 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

* kipu, kupi

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay puki, from Proto-Malayic *puki, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.ki/
* Hyphenation: pu‧ki

### Noun

puki
* (slang, vulgar, anatomy) vagina
    Synonyms: memek, tempik, meki

### 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: /puki/
* Rhymes: -uki, -ki, -i

### Noun

puki (Jawi spelling ڤوکي, plural puki-puki, informal 1st possessive pukiku, 2nd possessive pukimu, 3rd possessive pukinya)
* (vulgar, anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)
    Synonym: faraj

#### Derived terms

* pukimak

### Further reading

* “puki” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Pangutaran Sama
### Noun

puki
* (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

## Sakizaya
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *puki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.ˈki/, [pu.ˈki]

### Noun

puki
* (anatomy) vulva (collectively the external female sexual organs)

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpuki/ [ˈpuː.xɪ], /ˈpukiʔ/ [ˈpuː.xɪʔ]
* Rhymes: -uki, -ukiʔ
* Syllabification: pu‧ki

### Noun

puki or pukì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒ)
* Alternative form of puke

### Anagrams

* kupi