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pua

pua noun: a type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.

Noun (1)

pua (countable and uncountable, plural puas)

  1. A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.

Noun (2)

pua (plural puas)

  1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

Noun (3) capitalized: PUA

PUA (plural PUAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of pickup artist.
    • Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2019
    • Many also did not know that there is a name for men who often use such cruel tactics in pursuit of women: PUAs, or pickup artists.2019 December 29, Li Yuan, “For China’s Pickup Artists, Sex Is the Goal and Urging Suicide Is a Tactic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2020
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of potentially unwanted application.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).

Proper noun capitalized: Pua

Pua (plural Puas)

  1. (Philippines) A surname from Hokkien.

pua meaning in Hindi

pua in Hindi

sweet Indian cake
पुआ puā

Forms of pua

Noun
pluralpuas
pluralPUAs
Proper noun
pluralPuas

Origin of pua

Borrowed from Hindi पुआ (puā).

Borrowed from Spanish Pua, from Hokkien 潘 (Phoaⁿ).

Questions about pua

What does pua mean?
Pua means a type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.
What is pua in Hindi?
Pua in Hindi is पुआ (puā). See Pua meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pua?
Pua can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pua?
The plural of pua is puas.

Words near pua in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pua (page history and authors); PUA (page history and authors); Pua (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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