puff

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pʌf/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /pɐf/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Northern-England: /pʊf/
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• rhymes with -ʌf
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• CMU ARPABET: P AH1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English puff, puf, from Old English pyf (“a blast of wind, puff”), from Proto-West Germanic *puf(f)- (“to blow, puff”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch puf (“puff, wind, fart”), Middle Low German puf, pof (“puff”).

From Middle English puffen, from Old English pyffan (“to breathe out, blow with the mouth”). Compare Dutch puffen, German Low German puffen, German puffen, Danish puffe, Swedish puffa.

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: пухтене (puhtene) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Esperanto: pufo — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Finnish: puhallus — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Finnish: puhahdus — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• French: souffle — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• German: Hauch — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• German: Atemstoß — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• German: Windstoß — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Greek: φυσηξιά (fysixiá) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Greek: φύσημα (fýsima) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Hindi: फूंक (phūṅk) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Hindi: दम (dam) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Hindi: कश (kaś) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Hindi: फूँक (phū̃k) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Italian: sbuffo — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Central Kurdish: پف (pif) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Occitan: buf — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Persian: فوت (fut) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Persian: پف (pof) — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Portuguese: sopro — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Spanish: bocanada — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Spanish: vaharada — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Swedish: pust — sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
• Finnish: henki — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• French: souffle — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• German: Puste — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• German: Atem — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Hindi: फूंक (phūṅk) — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Hindi: दम (dam) — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Hindi: कश (kaś) — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Italian: fiato — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Italian: respiro — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Portuguese: fôlego — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Russian: дыхалка (dyxalka) — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Spanish: resuello — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Swedish: flås — ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself
• Bulgarian: кълбо дим (kǎlbo dim) — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Czech: obláček — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Finnish: haiku — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Finnish: vire — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Finnish: tuprahdus — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• French: bouffée — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• German: Sprühstoß — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• German: Hub — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Indonesian: kepulan — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Italian: soffio — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Italian: sbuffo — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Italian: refolo — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Italian: spiffero — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Italian: boccata — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Māori: pūrekereke — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Portuguese: baforada — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Spanish: bocanada — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Sundanese: peledug — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Swedish: puff — small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
• Bulgarian: дърпане (dǎrpane) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Czech: potáhnutí — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Czech: šluk — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Dutch: pof — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Dutch: shoetoe — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Finnish: savut — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• French: bouffée — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• French: taffe — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• French: latte — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• German: Zug — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Greek: ρουφηξιά (roufixiá) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Greek: τζούρα (tzoúra) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Italian: boccata — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Italian: tirata — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Japanese: 一服 (ippuku) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Norwegian Bokmål: drag — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Persian: پک (pok) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Portuguese: pitada — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Romanian: puf — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Russian: затя́жка (zatjážka) — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Spanish: calada — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Swedish: bloss — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Swedish: puff — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Tagalog: hithit — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Urdu: کش — informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe
• Dutch: wiet — slang: cannabis
• Finnish: hasa — slang: cannabis
• Finnish: pilvi — slang: cannabis
• Galician: herba — slang: cannabis
• German: Gras — slang: cannabis
• Greek: μπάφος (báfos) — slang: cannabis
• Italian: spinello — slang: cannabis
• Portuguese: erva — slang: cannabis
• Portuguese: maconha — slang: cannabis
• Russian: травка (travka) — slang: cannabis
• Russian: анаша (anaša) — slang: cannabis
• Bulgarian: еклер (ekler) — type of cake
• Chinese Cantonese: 泡芙 (pou5 fu4) — type of cake
• Chinese Mandarin: 泡芙 (pàofú) — type of cake
• Finnish: pusu — type of cake
• German: Windbeutel — type of cake
• Ancient Greek: φυστή (phustḗ) — type of cake
• Italian: bombolone — type of cake
• Italian: bignè — type of cake
• Italian: pasta sfoglia — type of cake
• Japanese: シュー (shū) — type of cake
• Japanese: パフ (pafu) — type of cake
• Portuguese: profiterole — type of cake
• Russian: профитроль (profitrolʹ) — type of cake
• Assamese: ফুলোৱা (phulüa) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Bulgarian: пуша (puša) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Bulgarian: димя (dimja) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Esperanto: pufi — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Finnish: tupruttaa — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Finnish: tupruta — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• German: puffen — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• German: verpuffen — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• German: paffen — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• German: blasen — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• German: pusten — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Greek: αγκομαχάω (agkomacháo) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Hindi: फूँकना (phū̃knā) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Hungarian: pöfékel — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Italian: uscire a sbuffi — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Italian: sbuffare — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Central Kurdish: پف کردن (pif kirdin) — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Latin: anhēlō — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Māori: puhipuhi — to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs
• Finnish: puffata — to advertise
• German: werben — to advertise
• German: anpreisen — to advertise
• Italian: decantare — to advertise
• Italian: incensare — to advertise