# pule
## English
### Etymology 1

From French piauler, a variant of French piailler (“to chirp, cheep”). Compare Italian pigolare (“to cheep as a chicken”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pjuːl/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /pjʉl/
* Rhymes: -uːl

#### Noun

pule (plural pules)
* A plaintive melancholy whine.

#### Verb

pule (third-person singular simple present pules, present participle puling, simple past and past participle puled)
* (intransitive) To whimper or whine.
    Although the elderly man felt mounting pain from his illness, he never complained or puled.
* (intransitive) To pipe or chirp.

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* puler

#### References

* OED 2nd edition 1989

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuːleɪ/

#### Noun

pule (uncountable)
* A Serbian cheese made from donkey milk.

### Anagrams

* Lupe

## Albanian
### Noun

pule
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of pulë

## Danish
### Etymology

From dialectal Swedish pula (“have sex with”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puːlə/, [ˈpʰuːlə]

### Verb

pule (imperative pul, infinitive at pule, present tense puler, past tense pulede, perfect tense har pulet)
* (informal, transitive) to fuck roughly

## Galician
### Verb

pule
* second-person singular imperative of pulir
* inflection of pular:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pule
* inflection of pulen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.le/

### Noun

pule
* prayer, spell, blessing
* church service
* week

### Verb

pule
* (transitive) to pray

#### Derived terms

* hoʻopule
* Lāpule
* pulepule
* pupule
* ʻōpulepule

### References

* pule in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.le/
* Rhymes: -ule
* Hyphenation: pù‧le

### Noun

pule m
* plural of pula

### Anagrams

* lupe

## Middle English
### Noun

pule
* Alternative form of pilwe

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Verb

pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult)
* (slang, vulgar) have sex; fuck

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

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

### Verb

pule (present tense puler, past tense pulte, past participle pult, passive infinitive pulast, present participle pulande, imperative pul)
* (slang, vulgar) fuck; have sex

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpu.li/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpu.li/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpu.le/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpu.lɨ/
* Hyphenation: pu‧le

### Verb

pule
* inflection of pular:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of polir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpu.le]

### Noun

pule
* plural of pulă

#### Usage notes

Although the plural form pule is that which would be found in a dictionary, puli and the other forms based on this plural form are more common.

#### Synonyms

* puli

## Samoan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

### Noun

pule
* shell
* cowrie

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpule/ [ˈpu.le]
* Rhymes: -ule
* Syllabification: pu‧le

### Verb

pule
* inflection of pulir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Tongan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.le/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pule, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buliq.

#### Noun

pule
* cowrie shell

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

pule
* authority
* leader; boss

## Volapük
### Noun

pule
* dative singular of pul