puga

From Spanish fuga, from Latin fuga, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡa/ [ˈpu.ɡɐ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ga

puga (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. to escape from prison

Compare Tagalog piga.

pugâ (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. to squeeze
2. to wring

• púa

Unknown; perhaps related to Latin pungō (“I prick”) and pūgiō (“dagger”).^[1] Cognate with Portuguese pua and Spanish púa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɣa̝/

puga f (plural pugas)

1. one of many large nails used to fasten a metal tyre to each one of the wheels of the traditional Galician cart

   Synonym: raigada

2. scion, graft

   Synonyms: esgallo, tano

3. prong; sharp end

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puga”, 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), “puga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

pugá

1. eggs of crabs or fish

From Proto-Indo-European *spugeh₂. Cognates include Ancient Greek πῡγή (pūgḗ), Old High German fochen, and Old Church Slavonic паoуга (paouga), пѫга (pǫga).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpʊɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ɡa/, [ˈpuːɡä]

pūga f (genitive pūgae); first declension

1. (anatomy) buttock

   Synonyms: clūnis, natis

   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Saturae 1.2.133:

     nē nummī pereant aut pūga aut dēniqua fāma.

First-declension noun.

• dēpūgis

• cūlus
• pōdex

• “puga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• puga 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)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /puˈɡa/ [pʊˈɣa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pu‧ga

pugá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. eggs of crabs or fish

• pugahan

Borrowed from Spanish fuga (“escape”), from Latin fuga.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɡa/ [ˈpuː.ɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: pu‧ga

puga (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜄ)

1. escape from prison

   Synonyms: pagtakas, pagtanan

2. escaped prisoner

   Synonym: takas

• “puga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

puga

1. to squeeze out fluid

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

puga

1. rump, bottom thick part

Inflection of puga (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	puga
genitive sing.	pugan
partitive sing.	pugad
partitive plur.	pugid
	singular	plural
nominative	puga	pugad
accusative	pugan	pugad
genitive	pugan	pugiden
partitive	pugad	pugid
essive-instructive	pugan	pugin
translative	pugaks	pugikš
inessive	pugas	pugiš
elative	pugaspäi	pugišpäi
illative	pugaha	pugihe
adessive	pugal	pugil
ablative	pugalpäi	pugilpäi
allative	pugale	pugile
abessive	pugata	pugita
comitative	puganke	pugidenke
prolative	pugadme	pugidme
approximative I	puganno	pugidenno
approximative II	pugannoks	pugidennoks
egressive	pugannopäi	pugidennopäi
terminative I	pugahasai	pugihesai
terminative II	pugalesai	pugilesai
terminative III	pugassai	—
additive I	pugahapäi	pugihepäi
additive II	pugalepäi	pugilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гузка”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika