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Purus

Purus is the plural of Puru.

Meaning of Puru

Noun

Puru (plural Purus)

  1. A member of an Indo-Aryan tribal alliance or confederation between c. 1700–1400 BCE.

Proper noun

the Purus

  1. A tributary of the Amazon river in South America, rising in Peru.

Questions about Purus

What does Purus mean?
Purus means a tributary of the Amazon river in South America, rising in Peru.
What is Purus the plural of?
Purus is the plural of Puru.
What part of speech is Purus?
Purus is a proper noun.

Words near Purus in the dictionary

  1. Purulia
  2. puruloid
  3. purulosanguineous
  4. purulosanguinous
  5. purum
  6. Purus
  7. purusa
  8. purusartha
  9. purusarthas
  10. purusas
  11. purusha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Purus (page history and authors); Puru (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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