puya

From Hindi [script needed] (puya)

puya (plural puyas)

1. A Hindu scripture

From Spanish puya, from Mapudungun puüya.

puya (plural puyas)

1. (botany) A member of the genus Puya of bromeliad plants. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide 2000, p. 45:

     The puya is a strange form of bromeliad, and the giant species grows ever so slowly for between 30 and 100 years and then sends a flower spike covered in 8000 florets about 9 metres (30 feet) up into the air, like a floral telegraph pole.

• ay up, ayup, yaup

puya f (plural puyes)

1. auction (public sales event)
2. bid

• puyar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɟ͡ʝa/, [ˈpuʝa]

From Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pugiō.

puya f (plural puyas)

1. (bullfighting) Sharp point on the tip of the vara (bullfighter's lance)
2. jibe; taunt

• puyazo

puya

1. (El Salvador, euphemistic) fudge (euphemism of the interjection puta "fuck!")

   ¡Puya mano, nos dejó el bus! - Oh fudge, we missed the bus!

   ¡Puya! ¡Qué me arde la herida! - Oh fudge, this wound really hurts!

• púchica