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pu-erh

pu-erh is the alternative form of pu'er.

Meaning of pu'er

Noun

pu'er (uncountable)

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

See all 2 meanings of pu'er

Proper noun capitalized: Pu-erh

Pu-erh

  1. (alternative, historical) Alternative form of Pu'er in Yunnan, China.
    • In reporting to the Empress of China the occurrence of a violent earthquake at the town of Pu-erh on November 14 last year, the Viceroy of Yunnan observes with humility that this awful visitation is to be regarded as a penalty of Heaven for his own inefficiency and incompetency and that of his...1885 May 14, “NOTES”, in Nature, page 37
    • The rarest and most expensive type of tea in the world is the mysterious Pu-Erh (poo-AIR) tea from the Pu-Erh region of China.[2009, Mark Ukra, Sharyn Kolberg, The Ultimate Tea Diet: Burn Fat and Lose Pounds Fast and Forever, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20

Noun capitalized: Pu-erh

Pu-erh (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Alternative letter-case form of pu-erh, a kind of tea from Pu'er.

Origin of pu-erh

Shortened from pu-erh tea, from the Wade–Giles romanization (properly p‘u-êrh) of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěrchá).

Questions about pu-erh

What is pu-erh the alternative form of?
Pu-erh is the alternative form of pu'er.
What part of speech is pu-erh?
Pu-erh can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near pu-erh in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pu-erh (page history and authors); Pu-erh (page history and authors); pu'er (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.

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