pus

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• pŭs
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pʌs/
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• Northern-England: /pʊs/
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• rhymes with -ʌs
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• homophone: puss (without the foot-strut split)
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• CMU ARPABET: P AH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.

168 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: а-ҭәа́ (a-twá) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aklanon: nana' — fluid found in regions of infection
• Albanian: qelb — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aleut: susux̂ — fluid found in regions of infection
• Arabic: قَيْح (qayḥ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Arabic: صَدِيد (ṣadīd) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Arabic: مِدَة (mida) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Arabic: مدة (meda) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Arabic: صديد (ṣadīd) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Armenian: թարախ (tʻarax) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aromanian: pronjiu — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aromanian: pronju — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aromanian: proanji — fluid found in regions of infection
• Aromanian: proanje — fluid found in regions of infection
• Assamese: পূঁজ (pũz) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Avar: хьверд (x̂werd) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Avar: рецӏцӏ (reccʼ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Azerbaijani: irin — fluid found in regions of infection
• Bashkir: эрен (eren) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Basque: zorne — fluid found in regions of infection
• Bats: ნოტყ (noṭq̇) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Belarusian: гной (hnoj) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Bengali: পূঁয (pũj) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Borôro: adudu — fluid found in regions of infection
• Bulgarian: гной (gnoj) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Burmese: ပြည် (prany) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Catalan: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Chamicuro: kajshali — fluid found in regions of infection
• Chechen: ноткъа (notqʼa) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Cherokee: ᎤᎦ (uga) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Chinese Cantonese: 膿 /脓 (nung4) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Chinese Mandarin: 膿 /脓 (nóng) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Czech: hnis — fluid found in regions of infection
• Danish: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Danish: materie — fluid found in regions of infection
• Dutch: etter — fluid found in regions of infection
• Dutch: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Esperanto: puso — fluid found in regions of infection
• Faroese: vágur — fluid found in regions of infection
• Fijian: nana — fluid found in regions of infection
• Finnish: mätä — fluid found in regions of infection
• Finnish: märkä — fluid found in regions of infection
• Finnish: visva — fluid found in regions of infection
• French: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Galician: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Galician: brume — fluid found in regions of infection
• Galician: veleno — fluid found in regions of infection
• Georgian: ჩირქი (čirki) — fluid found in regions of infection
• German: Eiter — fluid found in regions of infection
• Greek: πύον (pýon) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ancient Greek: πύον (púon) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Cappadocian Greek: ταράχι (taráchi) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hebrew: מֻגְלָה (muglá) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hindi: पीब (pīb) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hindi: मवाद (mavād) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hindi: पस (pas) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hindi: पीप (pīp) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hindi: पूय (pūy) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hopi: peekye — fluid found in regions of infection
• Hungarian: genny — fluid found in regions of infection
• Icelandic: gröftur — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ido: puso — fluid found in regions of infection
• Indonesian: nanah — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ingush: наткъа (natqʼa) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Interlingua: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Interlingua: pure — fluid found in regions of infection
• Irish: angadh — fluid found in regions of infection
• Irish: braon — fluid found in regions of infection
• Isnag: nana — fluid found in regions of infection
• Italian: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Japanese: 膿 (umi) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Japanese: 膿 (nō) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Old Javanese: nanah — fluid found in regions of infection
• Kazakh: ірің (ırıñ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Khmer: ខ្ទុះ (khtuh) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Khmer: ទឹករងៃ (tɨk rɔɔrɔngɨy) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Konkani: पू (pū) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Korean: 고름 (goreum) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Northern Kurdish: nêm — fluid found in regions of infection
• Kyrgyz: ириң (iriŋ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ladin: mercia — fluid found in regions of infection
• Lao: ຫນອງ (nǭng) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Lao: ບຸບໂພ (bup phō) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Latin: pūs — fluid found in regions of infection
• Latvian: strutas — fluid found in regions of infection
• Laz: თხომური (txomuri) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Lingala: mayina — fluid found in regions of infection
• Low German: Etter — fluid found in regions of infection
• Luxembourgish: Eeter — fluid found in regions of infection
• Macedonian: гној (gnoj) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Malay: nanah — fluid found in regions of infection
• Malayalam: ചലം (calaṁ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Malayalam: പഴുപ്പ് (paḻuppŭ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Maltese: materja — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mansaka: nana — fluid found in regions of infection
• Māori: ero — fluid found in regions of infection
• Māori: tarawai — fluid found in regions of infection
• Maranao: nana' — fluid found in regions of infection
• Central Melanau: nanak — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mingrelian: თხომური (txomuri) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mongolian: идээ (idee) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mongolian: идээ бээр — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mongolian: ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ (idege) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Mongolian: ᠢᠳᠡᠭᠡ ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠷᠢ (idege begeri) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Navajo: his — fluid found in regions of infection
• Nepali: पीप (pīp) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Norman: pouôrrituthe — fluid found in regions of infection
• Norwegian Bokmål: puss — fluid found in regions of infection
• Norwegian Bokmål: verk — fluid found in regions of infection
• Norwegian Nynorsk: puss — fluid found in regions of infection
• Norwegian Nynorsk: verk — fluid found in regions of infection
• Odia: ପୂଯ (puja) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ojibwe: mini — fluid found in regions of infection
• Old Norse: vágr — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ossetian: хӕф (xæf) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Persian: چرک (čerk) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Persian: استیم (estim) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Plautdietsch: Padikj — fluid found in regions of infection
• Polish: ropa — fluid found in regions of infection
• Portuguese: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Quechua: giya — fluid found in regions of infection
• Quechua: isgoi — fluid found in regions of infection
• Quechua: pogro — fluid found in regions of infection
• Romanian: puroi — fluid found in regions of infection
• Russian: гной (gnoj) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Sanskrit: पूय (pūya) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Serbo-Croatian: гно̑ј — fluid found in regions of infection
• Serbo-Croatian: gnȏj — fluid found in regions of infection
• Slovak: hnis — fluid found in regions of infection
• Slovene: gnoj — fluid found in regions of infection
• Somali: malax — fluid found in regions of infection
• Southern Altai: ириҥ (iriŋ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Spanish: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Spanish: podre — fluid found in regions of infection
• Svan: ფაქა̈რ (pakär) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Svan: შალა̈̄რ (šalǟr) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Svan: თა̈̄რ (tǟr) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Swahili: usaha — fluid found in regions of infection
• Swedish: var — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tagalog: nanà — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tajik: чирк (čirk) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tamil: சீழ் (cīḻ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tarifit: řgiḥ — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tatar: эрен (eren) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tausug: nana — fluid found in regions of infection
• Telugu: చీము (cīmu) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Telugu: పూయము (pūyamu) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Thai: หนอง (nɔ̌ɔng) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tibetan: རྣག (rnag) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Tocharian B: sekwe — fluid found in regions of infection
• Turkish: cerahat — fluid found in regions of infection
• Turkish: iltihap — fluid found in regions of infection
• Turkish: irin — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ottoman Turkish: ایرك (iriñ) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ottoman Turkish: چرك (çirk) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Turkmen: iriň — fluid found in regions of infection
• Turkmen: çylpyk — fluid found in regions of infection
• Ukrainian: гній (hnij) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Uyghur: يىرىڭ (yiring) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Uzbek: yiring — fluid found in regions of infection
• Vietnamese: mủ — fluid found in regions of infection
• Walloon: matire — fluid found in regions of infection
• Walloon: pus — fluid found in regions of infection
• Welsh: madredd — fluid found in regions of infection
• Welsh: crawn — fluid found in regions of infection
• Yakut: ириҥэ (iriŋe) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Yiddish: אייטער (eyter) — fluid found in regions of infection
• Zhuang: nong — fluid found in regions of infection