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pu'er

Syllables: Pu·er/ˈpʊəɹ/

pu'er noun: a kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).

Noun (1)

pu'er (uncountable)

  1. A kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).
    Synonyms:
    bo lei

Proper noun capitalized: Pu'er

Pu'er

  1. A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
    • An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, early last Sunday.2007 June 8, “Earthquake kills three”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3
    • In order to improve the quality of Pu'er Tea, Pu'er City strengthened the construction of ecological tea orchards bases.2011, Xiaoxi Li, Jiancheng Pan, editors, China Green Development Index Report 2011, →ISBN, page 200
    Synonyms:
    Pu'er City

Noun (2) capitalized: Pu'er

Pu'er (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of pu'er: a kind of tea.

pu'er meaning in Thai

pu'er in Thai

a variety of tea
ชาผู่เอ๋อร์

Synonyms of pu'er

Forms of pu'er

Noun
alternative formPu-erh
alternative formpu-erh
alternative formPu'er
alternative formpuer
alternative formbo lei
Proper noun
alternative alsoPuer
alternative formP'u-erh
alternative formP'u-êrh
alternative formPuerh

Origin of pu'er

Shortened from pu'er tea, from the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr). As the tea, shortened from Pu'er tea.

Phrases with pu'er

Questions about pu'er

What does pu'er mean?
Pu'er means a kind of fermented dark Assam green tea (C. sinensis var. assamica).
What is pu'er in Thai?
Pu'er in Thai is ชาผู่เอ๋อร์. See Pu'er meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is pu'er?
Pu'er can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pu'er?
Pu'er is pronounced /ˈpʊəɹ/.

Words near pu'er in the dictionary

  1. PTZ
  2. PTZs
  3. PU
  4. pu pu
  5. Pu'an
  6. pu'er
  7. Pu'er City
  8. pu-erh
  9. Pu-Xian Min
  10. pu.
  11. pua

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