Word.ws English Dictionary

pood

/puːd/

pood noun: an obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).

Noun

pood (plural poods)

  1. An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
    • About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.1869, Great Britain. Parliament, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 295
  2. A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).

pood meaning in Vietnamese

pood in Vietnamese

Russian unit of mass
pút

Forms of pood

pluralpoods
alternative formpoud

Origin of pood

From Russian пуд (pud). Doublet of funt, pfund, pound, and punt.

Words that rhyme with pood

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pood

What does pood mean?
Pood means an obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
What is pood in Vietnamese?
Pood in Vietnamese is pút. See Pood meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is pood?
Pood is a noun.
How do you pronounce pood?
Pood is pronounced /puːd/.
What is the plural of pood?
The plural of pood is poods.

Words near pood in the dictionary

  1. poochie
  2. Poochie-fication
  3. poochies
  4. pooching
  5. poochy
  6. pood
  7. poodied
  8. poodies
  9. poodle
  10. poodle cloth
  11. poodle shooter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pood.wav.

Cite this entry: “pood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.