# pupo
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pu‧po

### Verb

pupo
* to pick; to harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached
* to pluck; to pull something sharply; to pull something out
* to reap; to obtain or receive as a reward

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pupo.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin pūpa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpupo/
* Hyphenation: pu‧po
* Rhymes: -upo
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pupo (accusative singular pupon, plural pupoj, accusative plural pupojn)
* doll
* hand puppet
* (entomology) pupa

#### Derived terms

* gantpupo (“hand puppet”)
* pupdomo (“doll's house”)
* pupteatro (“puppet show”)

#### See also

* marioneto (“marionette”)

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English poop, French poupe, Italian poppa, Spanish popa. The u was adopted to differentiate the word from popo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpupo/

### Noun

pupo (plural pupi)
* (nautical) poop, stern (of a ship, boat)

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From Latin pūpus.

### Noun

pupo (plural pupos)
* boy
    Synonym: puero
* child

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin pūpus (“boy, child”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few; little”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.po/
* Rhymes: -upo
* Hyphenation: pù‧po

### Noun

pupo m (plural pupi)
* (regional) a small child
    Synonyms: bambino, bimbo
* puppet
    Synonym: marionetta

#### Derived terms

* pupazzo

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpuː.poː/, [ˈpuːpoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.po/, [ˈpuːpo]

### Noun

pūpō
* dative/ablative singular of pūpus

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.pɔ/
* Rhymes: -upɔ
* Syllabification: pu‧po

### Noun

pupo f
* vocative singular of pupa

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua pupu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpupo/ [ˈpu.po]
* Rhymes: -upo
* Syllabification: pu‧po

### Noun

pupo m (plural pupos)
* (Argentina, Ecuador) navel, belly button

### Further reading

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

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* pupu
* popo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

### Etymology 1

Compare sapo.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpupoʔ/ [ˈpuː.poʔ]
* Rhymes: -upoʔ
* Syllabification: pu‧po

#### Noun

pupò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)
* (obsolete) act of cutting a tree at the foot of it
* great advantage
* (childish, slang) Alternative spelling of pupu (“feces; poop”)

#### Adjective

pupò (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)
* broken or chopped off near the base or root

##### Derived terms

* pinupo
* pupoin
* pupokan
* pupupo

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /puˈpoʔ/ [pʊˈpoʔ]
* Rhymes: -oʔ
* Syllabification: pu‧po

#### Noun

pupô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜉᜓ)
* (obsolete) removal of inedible parts of food to separate the edible part (of chicken, fish, crab, shrimp, corn, beans, etc.)
    Synonyms: himay, paghimay
* (obsolete) stringing and cutting into small pieces of beans (in preparation for cooking)
    Synonyms: himay, paghimay

### Further reading

* “pupo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* “pupo”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2025
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot