puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

• IPA^(key): /puːmə/, /pjuːmə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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.

• → Malay: puma
• → Swedish: puma

• paum, upma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Classical Quechua puma.

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

puma m (plural pumes)

1. puma

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

• poma (Hispanic spelling)

From Proto-Quechuan *puma. Cognate with Quechua puma.

puma

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

• → Spanish: puma (see there for further descendants)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuma]

Possibly via German Puma, ultimately from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma f (related adjective pumí)

1. cougar, puma

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

puma f (related adjective pumový)

1. bomb

• “puma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “puma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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)

Declension of puma
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	puma	puman	pumur	pumurnar
accusative	pumu	pumuna	pumur	pumurnar
dative	pumu	pumuni	pumum	pumunum
genitive	pumu	pumunnar	puma	pumanna

• puma on the Faroese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fo

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.

• IPA^(key): /py.ma/

• Audio:

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puma m (plural pumas)

1. puma (mammal)

• → Romanian: puma

• “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)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	puma	pumák
accusative	pumát	pumákat
dative	pumának	pumáknak
instrumental	pumával	pumákkal
causal-final	pumáért	pumákért
translative	pumává	pumákká
terminative	pumáig	pumákig
essive-formal	pumaként	pumákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pumában	pumákban
superessive	pumán	pumákon
adessive	pumánál	pumáknál
illative	pumába	pumákba
sublative	pumára	pumákra
allative	pumához	pumákhoz
elative	pumából	pumákból
delative	pumáról	pumákról
ablative	pumától	pumáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	pumáé	pumáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pumáéi	pumákéi

Possessive forms of puma
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pumám	pumáim
2nd person sing.	pumád	pumáid
3rd person sing.	pumája	pumái
1st person plural	pumánk	pumáink
2nd person plural	pumátok	pumáitok
3rd person plural	pumájuk	pumáik

• 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.^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/

• Audio:

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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]

• Rhymes: -umɐ
• 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

Proto-Quechuan *puma; compare Classical Quechua puma.

puma

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

• Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (2005) Diccionario quechua-español-quechua/Qheswa-español-qheswa simi taqe‎^[2], Cuzco: Regional Government of Cuzco

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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ma/

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma.

puma f

1. puma, cougar (Puma concolor)

Inherited from Old Slovak puma. Borrowed from Germanic.

puma f (related adjective pumový)

1. bomb

• 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, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /pùːma/

púma f

1. puma, mountain lion (Puma concolor)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	púma
gen. sing.	púme
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	púma	púmi	púme
genitive (rodȋlnik)	púme	púm	púm
dative (dajȃlnik)	púmi	púmama	púmam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	púmo	púmi	púme
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	púmi	púmah	púmah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	púmo	púmama	púmami

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• Audio (Kenya):

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-puma (infinitive kupuma)

1. to exhale
2. to throb, pulsate

Conjugation of -puma
Positive present -napuma Subjunctive -pume Negative -pumi Imperative singular puma
Infinitives
Positive kupuma Negative kutopuma
Imperatives
Singular puma Plural pumeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hupuma Positive past positive subject concord + -lipuma Negative past negative subject concord + -kupuma
Positive present (positive subject concord + -napuma) Singular Plural 1st person ninapuma/napuma tunapuma 2nd person unapuma mnapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapuma wanapuma other classes positive subject concord + -napuma
Negative present (negative subject concord + -pumi) Singular Plural 1st person sipumi hatupumi 2nd person hupumi hampumi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapumi hawapumi other classes negative subject concord + -pumi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tapuma Negative future negative subject concord + -tapuma
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pume) Singular Plural 1st person nipume tupume 2nd person upume mpume 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apume wapume other classes positive subject concord + -pume
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipume Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepuma Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepuma Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipuma Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipuma
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apuma) Singular Plural 1st person napuma twapuma 2nd person wapuma mwapuma 3rd person m-wa(I/II) apuma wapuma m-mi(III/IV) wapuma yapuma ji-ma(V/VI) lapuma yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapuma vyapuma n(IX/X) yapuma zapuma u(XI) wapuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwapuma pa(XVI) papuma mu(XVIII) mwapuma
Perfect positive subject concord + -mepuma "Already" positive subject concord + -meshapuma "Not yet" negative subject concord + -japuma "If/When" positive subject concord + -kipuma "If not" positive subject concord + -sipopuma Consecutive kapuma / positive subject concord + -kapuma Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapume
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nipuma -tupuma 2nd person -kupuma -wapuma/-kupumeni/-wapumeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpuma -wapuma m-mi(III/IV) -upuma -ipuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lipuma -yapuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipuma -vipuma n(IX/X) -ipuma -zipuma u(XI) -upuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kupuma pa(XVI) -papuma mu(XVIII) -mupuma Reflexive -jipuma
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -puma- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -pumaye -pumao m-mi(III/IV) -pumao -pumayo ji-ma(V/VI) -pumalo -pumayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -pumacho -pumavyo n(IX/X) -pumayo -pumazo u(XI) -pumao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -pumako pa(XVI) -pumapo mu(XVIII) -pumamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -puma) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yepuma -opuma m-mi(III/IV) -opuma -yopuma ji-ma(V/VI) -lopuma -yopuma ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopuma -vyopuma n(IX/X) -yopuma -zopuma u(XI) -opuma see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kopuma pa(XVI) -popuma mu(XVIII) -mopuma
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Conversive: -pumua (“to breathe; to rest”)

-puma

1. to burst

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English puma. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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)