pupuk

Inherited from Malay pupuk.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpupuʔ/ [ˈpu.pʊʔ]
• Rhymes: -upuʔ
• Syllabification: pu‧puk

pupuk (plural pupuk-pupuk)

1. (agriculture) fertilizer, fertiliser:

   Synonym: baja (Standard Malay)

   1. a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants
   2. a chemical compound created to have the same effect
2. medicine from plants (leaves and so on) that are ground into a paste, attached to the upper forehead, close to the crown

• “pupuk”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈpupok/ [ˈpu.poʔ]
  • Rhymes: -oʔ

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈpupuk/ [ˈpu.puʔ]
  • Rhymes: -uʔ
• Hyphenation: pu‧puk

pupuk (Jawi spelling ڤوڤوق, plural pupuk-pupuk)

1. (agriculture) Fertilizer:

   Synonyms: baja, gemuk

   1. A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
   2. A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
2. Medicine from plants (leaves and so on) that are ground into a paste, attached to the upper forehead, close to the crown.

• > Indonesian: pupuk (inherited)

• “pupuk”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Reduplication of puk.

• IPA^(key): [puˈpuk]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Hyphenation: pu‧puk

pupuk (noun form pupuka)

1. holey (being full of holes)

   Synonym: kûar

   • 1622, anonymous author, “Bexigozo ser do rosto”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 55; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Xerobapupuc

     [Xe robapupuk.]

     I'm poxy.

     (literally, “My face is holey.”)

2. self-polluting
3. ejaculated

   ra'ypupuka ― ejaculated semen

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “pupuk”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 411, columns 1–2