puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /puːmə/, /pjuːmə/

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• Rhymes: -uːmə
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

puma (plural pumas)

1. A mountain lion or cougar (Puma concolor).
2. (by extension) Any feline belonging to the genus Puma.
3. (slang) A woman in her 20s or 30s who seeks relationships with younger men; a younger cougar.
   • 2011, Donna McDonald, Dating A Cougar, →ISBN:

     “Younger can be good. How much younger?” Regina asked, inspecting the appetizer plates for any lingering bites. “I don't know,” Alexa said frowning. “Why does that matter?” “Less than eight years makes you a Puma. Over eight years makes you a Cougar,” Regina said wisely, grinning as Lauren nodded excitedly in agreement.

• paum, upma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Classical Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpu.ma]

puma m (plural pumes)

1. puma

• “puma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

puma

1. puma, cougar, mountain lion (Felis concolor).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuma]

puma f (related adjective pumí)

1. cougar, puma

puma f (related adjective pumový)

1. bomb

• puma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• puma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma c (singular definite pumaen, plural indefinite pumaer)

1. puma; cougar; mountain lion

• “puma” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰuːma/
• Rhymes: -uːma

puma f (genitive singular pumu, plural pumur)

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

• puma on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fo

From Quechuan.

• IPA^(key): /py.ma/

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puma m (plural pumas)

1. puma (mammal)

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

Borrowed from German Puma, from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpumɒ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

puma (plural pumák)

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/
• Rhymes: -uma
• Hyphenation: pù‧ma

puma m (invariable)

1. puma

• ڤوما

Borrowed from English puma, from Quechuan puma.

• IPA^(key): [pumə], [pumɐ]
• Rhymes: -umə, -mə, -ə

puma (Jawi spelling ڤوما, plural puma-puma)

1. puma (mountain lion); cougar (Puma concolor)

• kugar / کوݢر

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer, definite plural pumaene)

1. a puma, Puma concolor

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

From Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma m (definite singular pumaen, indefinite plural pumaer or pumaar, definite plural pumaene or pumaane)

1. a puma, Puma concolor

• “puma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: pu‧ma

puma f

1. puma, cougar

   Synonym: kuguar

• puma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• puma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Spanish puma,[1] from Quechua puma.[2]

• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

puma m or (nonstandard) f (plural pumas)

1. puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)

   Synonyms: onça-parda, suçuarana, leão-baio, leão-da-montanha

puma

1. puma; cougar; mountain lion (Puma concolor, a large feline of the Americas)

• “puma” in Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2006) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua, 2nd edition, Cusco: Edmundo Pantigozo.

Borrowed from French puma.

puma f (uncountable)

1. puma

• IPA^(key): /pûma/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ma

pȕma f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ма)

1. puma

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/, [ˈpuːmä]
• Hyphenation: pù‧ma

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

puma m

1. plural of pumu

• Sicilian: Puma (Sicilian surname)
  • → Italian: Puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma m

1. cougar, mountain lion, puma (Puma concolor)

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/

puma f (genitive singular pumy, nominative plural pumy, genitive plural púm, declension pattern of žena)

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

• puma on the Slovak Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sk

• “puma”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /pùːma/

púma f

1. puma, mountain lion (Puma concolor)

Borrowed from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuma/ [ˈpu.ma]
• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: pu‧ma

puma m (plural pumas)

1. cougar, mountain lion, puma (Puma concolor)

• “puma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

-puma

1. to burst

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puma c

1. a cougar (Puma concolor)
2. (slang) a cougar; a woman who is attractive despite her age

• MILF

• puma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• puma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• puma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)