puha

See also: Puha, püha, and pühä

English

Etymology

From Maori pūhā.

Noun

puha (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) Any of various Eurasian sowthistles of the genus Sonchus, used as a vegetable by Māori people; especially the prickly sowthistle, Sonchus asper. [from 19th c.]
   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin 1986, p. 68:

     ‘Come on,’ she says to the entranced child, ‘downstairs and help us collect some puha to go with them.’

Hungarian

Etymology

From an otherwise unattested stem (an onomatopoeia) + -a (obsolete participle-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuɦɒ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ha
• Rhymes: -hɒ

Adjective

puha (comparative puhább, superlative legpuhább)

1. soft (easily giving way under pressure)

   Synonyms: lágy, süppedős

   Antonym: kemény

   puha ágy ― soft bed

2. (of cloth or similar material) soft (smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh)
3. (of a person) soft, impressible, weak (in character)

   Synonyms: gyönge, befolyásolható

4. (of a person) soft, pampered

   Synonyms: elpuhult, elkényeztetett, puhány

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	puha	puhák
accusative	puhát	puhákat
dative	puhának	puháknak
instrumental	puhával	puhákkal
causal-final	puháért	puhákért
translative	puhává	puhákká
terminative	puháig	puhákig
essive-formal	puhaként	puhákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	puhában	puhákban
superessive	puhán	puhákon
adessive	puhánál	puháknál
illative	puhába	puhákba
sublative	puhára	puhákra
allative	puhához	puhákhoz
elative	puhából	puhákból
delative	puháról	puhákról
ablative	puhától	puháktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	puháé	puháké
non-attributive possessive – plural	puháéi	puhákéi

Derived terms

• puhaság
• puhány
• puhít
• puhul

Compound words

• puhafa
• puhatestű

Further reading

• puha in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈpuha/ [ˈpuː.hʌ]
• Rhymes: -uha
• Syllabification: pu‧ha

Noun

púha

1. Pronunciation variant of pusa.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of pusa

Southern / Central
Mt. Province	Tadian	pusa, (Lubon) puha, (Banaao, Cadad-anan, Cagubatan, Dacudac, Lenga, Pandayan) poha
	Bauko	pusa, (Banao, Bila, Otucan) puha
	Sabangan	pusa, (Tambingan, Supang, Data, Lagan, Losad, Poblacion) pusa, (Bun-ayan, Pingad, Bao-angan, Camatagan, Napua, Gayang, Capinitan, Busa, Namatec) puha

Maori

Noun

puha

1. gill (of fish)
2. the sow thistle, also called rareke, or raraki

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

puha (Cyrillic spelling пуха)

1. genitive/accusative singular of puh

Tuamotuan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *pusa (compare with Samoan pusa and Tongan pusa); proposed as a borrowing of Dutch bus from Tongan contact with Jacob Le Maire's and Willem Schouten's ships during exploration for the Dutch East India Company in April 1616. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

puha

1. bucket, barrel
2. box

Further reading

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “puha” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.