puas

See also: PUAs and púas

English

Noun

puas

1. plural of pua

Anagrams

• UAPs, AUPs, Apsu, sapu, SPUA, USAP, Apus, pa'us, APUs, paus, upas

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin passus.

Noun

puas m

1. step

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

puas

1. second-person singular past historic of puer

Anagrams

• supa

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Adjective

puas

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay puas, from Proto-Malayic *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuas/
• Hyphenation: pu‧as
• Rhymes: -as, -s

Adjective

puas

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Derived terms

• berpuas
• dipuaskan
• kepuasan
• ketidakpuasan
• memuaskan
• pemuas
• pemuasan
• sepuas-puasnya
• terpuaskan

 

Further reading

• “puas” 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 *puhas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puas/
• Rhymes: -uas, -was, -as

Adjective

puas (Jawi spelling ڤواس)

1. satisfied (in a state of satisfaction)

Derived terms

• kepuasan
• memuaskan

Further reading

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

Sundanese

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqas. Sense of 'satisfied in general' as a semantic loan from Indonesian puas

Adjective

puas

1. satisfied upon other's suffering or misfortune; to feel schadenfreude
2. satisfied (in general); content

   Synonym: sugema

Interjection

puas

1. word to express anger or irritation; take that!

   Puas tah katangkep! Bongan saha ngebut?

   Thank goodness you got caught! Whose fault was it for speeding?

Further reading

• Maman Sumantri, et al. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

• "POEWAS", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

Tagalog

Noun

puás (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜏᜐ᜔)

1. Obsolete spelling of puwas.

Anagrams

• usap, upas, pusa

West Makian

Etymology

From East Makian poas (“paddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.as̪/

Noun

puas

1. paddle

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puə̯˩/

Etymology 1

Particle

puas

1. interrogative particle, inserted in front of a verb to turn a declarative sentence into a question

   Koj puas xav noj? ― Do you want to eat?

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong *bu̯aᴮ (“bad, spoiled”), likely borrowed from Middle Chinese 腐 (MC bjuX, “to spoil, rot”).

Adjective

puas

1. to destroy, to spoil, to make or become useless

   puas lawm ― spoiled, useless

Etymology 3

Tone change from pua.

Numeral

puas

1. Alternative form of pua (“hundred”)

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 238.