pus

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pus"

Translingual

Symbol

pus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Pashto terms

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌs

Noun

pus (uncountable)

2. (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

   Pus was seeping out of the wound.

Derived terms

• pus-gutted
• pussy, pusy
• puss (alternative spelling)

Related terms

• puriform
• purulent
• pustulent
• suppure, suppurate, suppurative, suppurant

Translations

fluid found in regions of infection

• Abkhaz: а-ҭәа́ (a-tʷá)
• Aklanon: nana'
• Albanian: qelb (sq) m
• Aleut: susux̂
• Arabic: قَيْح m (qayḥ), صَدِيد m (ṣadīd), مِدَة f (mida)

  Egyptian Arabic: مدة f (meda), صديد m (ṣadīd)

• Armenian: թարախ (hy) (tʻarax)
• Aromanian: pronjiu m, pronju, proanji, proanje
• Assamese: পূঁজ (pũz)
• Avar: хьверд (x̂ʷerd), рецӏцӏ (reccʼ)
• Azerbaijani: irin (az)
• Bashkir: эрен (eren)
• Basque: zorne
• Bats: ნოტყ (noṭq̇)
• Belarusian: гной m (hnoj)
• Bengali: পূঁয (pũj)
• Borôro: adudu
• Bulgarian: гной (bg) m (gnoj)
• Burmese: ပြည် (my) (prany)
• Cappadocian Greek: ταράχι (taráchi)
• Catalan: pus (ca) m
• Central Melanau: nanak
• Chamicuro: kajshali
• Chechen: ноткъа (notqʼa)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎦ (uga)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膿 / 脓 (nung⁴)

  Mandarin: 膿 / 脓 (zh) (nóng)

• Czech: hnis (cs) m
• Danish: pus n, materie c
• Dutch: etter (nl) m, pus (nl) n
• Esperanto: puso
• Faroese: vágur m
• Fijian: nana (fj)
• Finnish: mätä (fi), märkä (fi), visva (fi)
• French: pus (fr) m
• Galician: pus (gl) m, brume (gl) m, veleno (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩირქი (čirki)
• German: Eiter (de) m
• Greek: πύον (el) n (pýon)

  Ancient: πύον n (púon)

• Hebrew: מֻגְלָה (he) f (muglá)
• Hindi: पीब (pīb), मवाद (hi) (mavād), पस (hi) m (pas), पीप (hi) m (pīp), पूय (hi) m (pūy)
• Hopi: peekye
• Hungarian: genny (hu)
• Icelandic: gröftur (is) m
• Ido: puso (io)
• Indonesian: nanah (id)
• Ingush: наткъа (natqʼa)
• Interlingua: pus, pure
• Irish: angadh m, braon m
• Isnag: nana
• Italian: pus (it) m
• Japanese: 膿 (ja) (うみ, umi), 膿 (ja) (のう, nō)
• Kazakh: ірің (ırıñ)
• Khmer: ខ្ទុះ (km) (khtuh), ទឹករងៃ (tɨk rɔngɨy)
• Konkani: पू (pū)
• Korean: 고름 (ko) (goreum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nêm (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ириң (ky) (iriŋ)
• Ladin: mercia f
• Lao: ໜອງ (lo) (nǭng), ບຸບໂພ (bup phō)
• Latin: pūs n
• Latvian: strutas (lv) f pl
• Laz: თხომური (txomuri)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Low German: Etter m
• Luxembourgish: Eeter m
• Macedonian: гној m (gnoj)
• Malay: nanah
• Malayalam: ചലം (ml) (calaṁ), പഴുപ്പ് (ml) (paḻuppŭ)
• Maltese: materja
• Mansaka: nana
• Maori: ero, tarawai
• Maranao: nana'
• Mingrelian: თხომური (txomuri)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: идээ (mn) (idee), идээ бээр (idee beer)

  Mongolian: ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ (idege), ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ
  ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠷᠢ (idege begeri)

• Navajo: his
• Nepali: पीप (pīp)
• Norman: pouôrrituthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: puss (no) m or n, verk (no) m

  Nynorsk: puss m or n, verk m

• Odia: ପୂଯ (or) (puja)
• Ojibwe: mini
• Old Javanese: nanah
• Old Norse: vágr m
• Ossetian: хӕф (xæf)
• Ottoman Turkish: ایرك (iriñ), چرك (çirk)
• Persian: چرک (fa) (čerk), استیم (fa) (estim)
• Plautdietsch: Padikj m
• Polish: ropa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pus (pt) m
• Quechua: giya, isgoi, pogro
• Romanian: puroi (ro) n
• Russian: гной (ru) m (gnoj)
• Sanskrit: पूय (sa) m or n (pūya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гно̑ј m

  Roman: gnȏj (sh) m

• Slovak: hnis (sk) m
• Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
• Somali: malax
• Spanish: pus (es) m, podre (es) f
• Svan: ფაქა̈რ (pakär), შალა̈̄რ (šalǟr), თა̈̄რ (tǟr)
• Swahili: usaha (sw)
• Swedish: var (sv) n
• Tagalog: nanà (tl)
• Tajik: чирк (tg) (čirk)
• Tarifit: řgiḥ
• Tatar: эрен (tt) (eren)
• Tausug: nana
• Telugu: చీము (te) (cīmu), పూయము (te) (pūyamu)
• Thai: หนอง (th) (nɔ̌ɔng)
• Tibetan: རྣག (rnag)
• Tocharian B: sekwe
• Turkish: cerahat (tr), iltihap (tr), irin (tr)
• Turkmen: iriň, çylpyk
• Ukrainian: гній m (hnij)
• Uyghur: يىرىڭ (yiring)
• Uzbek: yiring (uz)
• Vietnamese: mủ (vi)
• Walloon: matire (wa) f, pus (wa) m
• Welsh: madredd m, crawn m
• Yakut: ириҥэ (iriñe)
• Yiddish: אייטער m (eyter)
• Zhuang: nong

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, UPs, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

Albanian

Etymology

Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m (plural puse, definite pusi, definite plural puset)

1. well (source of water)

Declension

Declension of pus

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pus	pusi	puse	puset
accusative		pusin
dative	pusi	pusit	puseve	puseve
ablative			pusesh

Synonyms

• ubël

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

Noun

pus

1. cat

   Synonym: tusa

   Lebe bai beta kasi makang pus dar mau kas makang orang pamalas.

   I would rather give food to the cat than to give food to the lazy.

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpus]

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Related terms

• purulent

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Compare Occitan pus, French plus.

Adverb

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   Synonym: més

   no en vull pus

   I don't want (any) more of it

Usage notes

• Found in expressions like despús-ahir o despús-demà

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

Conjunction

pus

1. after

Further reading

• “pus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

• sup

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʏs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

Noun

pus n or m (uncountable)

1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)

   Synonym: etter

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: pus

Finnish

Etymology

See pusu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/, [ˈpus̠]
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation^(key): pus

Interjection

pus (informal)

1. mwah, smooch

See also

• pus kii

Further reading

• “pus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus, meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

Related terms

• purulent

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

pus m pl

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural of pu

Further reading

• “pus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

Noun

pus f (invariable)

1. pus

   Synonyms: materia, apostema

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese pos, pus, from Latin post.

Alternative forms

• pos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

Preposition

pus

1. (archaic) after, behind

Etymology 3

Verb

pus

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pus”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pus”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʊs]

Noun

pus

1. puss: a term to address or call a cat

   Synonym: meong

References

• “pus” 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.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /pˠʌsˠ/

Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. snout

   Synonyms: cab, glomhar, gulba, smaois, smuilc, smúrlach, smut, soc, srubh

Declension

Declension of pus (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative pus pusa vocative a phuis a phusa genitive puis pus dative pus pusa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an pus na pusa genitive an phuis na bpus dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusa

Alternative declension

Declension of pus (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative pus pusanna vocative a phuis a phusanna genitive puis pusanna dative pus pusanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an pus na pusanna genitive an phuis na bpusanna dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusanna

Derived terms

• puisín m (“lip”)
• pusach (“pouting”, adjective)
• pusaí m (“sulky person”)
• pusaíoch m (“sulky person”)
• pusaire m (“sulky person”)
• puslach m (“muzzle”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of pus

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pus	phus	bpus

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation: pùs

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Related terms

• mucopus
• pio-
• purulento
• purulenza
• pustola

 

Further reading

• pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• sup

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *puos, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-. Cognate with Sanskrit पुवस् (púvas), Ancient Greek πύον (púon), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːs/, [puːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pus/, [pus]

Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	pūs	pūra
genitive	pūris	pūrum
dative	pūrī	pūribus
accusative	pūs	pūra
ablative	pūre	pūribus
vocative	pūs	pūra

Derived terms

• pūrulentus
• suppūrō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: pronjiu, proanji
• Catalan: pus
• → Dutch: pus (learned)
  • → Papiamentu: pus
• → English: pus
• French: pus
• Galician: pus
• Italian: pus, purino
• Portuguese: pus
• Romanian: puroi
• Spanish: pus

References

• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

Lushootseed

Noun

pus

1. Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

Miskito

Noun

pus

1. cat

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[4], page 537:

     Sème tes concombres en Mars,
     Tu n' airas qu' faire de pouque ni de sac;
     Sème-les en Avril, tu en airas ùn petit;
     Mé, j' les semerai en Mai;
     Et j'en airai pûs que té.

     Sow your cucumbers in March,
     you will want neither bag nor sack;
     sow them in April, you will have a few;
     I will sow mine in May,
     and I shall have more than you.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

Etymology 2

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural puser, definite plural pusene)

1. (informal) cat

   Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

   Anne har en kjempesøt pus.

   Anne has an adorable cat.

References

• “pus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat

   Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

References

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

1. more
   • 19^th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:

     Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !

     But I am happier than a king!

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)ʃ/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/

• Hyphenation: pus

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pus

1. plural of pu

Etymology 3

Latin posuī

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 234:

     Não pus nada no suco!

     I didn't put anything in the juice!

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost, where this was preserved).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pus]

• Audio:

  (file)

Participle

pus

1. past participle of pune

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	pus		pusă		puși	puse
	definite	pusul		pusa		pușii	pusele
genitive- dative	indefinite	pus		puse		puși	puse
	definite	pusului		pusei		pușilor	puselor

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: pus

Noun

pus m or (also in some parts of Latin America) f (plural puses)

1. pus
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 302:

     Para el cachín (úlcera inveterada), es bueno tomar el polvo de una culebra quemada, y aplica a la úlcera una lagartija, a la cual se ha despojado de las patas y la cola, con el objeto de que ésta chupe el pus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “pus”, 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

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bus (“steam”). Cognate with Tuvan бус (bus, “steam”), Bashkir боҫ (boś, “steam”), Chuvash пӑс (păs, “steam”), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	pus
Definite accusative	pusu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pus	puslar
Definite accusative	pusu	pusları
Dative	pusa	puslara
Locative	pusta	puslarda
Ablative	pustan	puslardan
Genitive	pusun	pusların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular pusum puslarım 2nd singular pusun pusların 3rd singular pusu pusları 1st plural pusumuz puslarımız 2nd plural pusunuz puslarınız 3rd plural pusları pusları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumu puslarımı 2nd singular pusunu puslarını 3rd singular pusunu puslarını 1st plural pusumuzu puslarımızı 2nd plural pusunuzu puslarınızı 3rd plural puslarını puslarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular pusuma puslarıma 2nd singular pusuna puslarına 3rd singular pusuna puslarına 1st plural pusumuza puslarımıza 2nd plural pusunuza puslarınıza 3rd plural puslarına puslarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumda puslarımda 2nd singular pusunda puslarında 3rd singular pusunda puslarında 1st plural pusumuzda puslarımızda 2nd plural pusunuzda puslarınızda 3rd plural puslarında puslarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumdan puslarımdan 2nd singular pusundan puslarından 3rd singular pusundan puslarından 1st plural pusumuzdan puslarımızdan 2nd plural pusunuzdan puslarınızdan 3rd plural puslarından puslarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular pusumun puslarımın 2nd singular pusunun puslarının 3rd singular pusunun puslarının 1st plural pusumuzun puslarımızın 2nd plural pusunuzun puslarınızın 3rd plural puslarının puslarının

Tzotzil

FWOTD – 19 January 2017

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

Noun

pus

1. steam bath

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“many”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/

Adverb

pus

1. more