пук

• IPA^(key): [puk]

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic поукъ (pukŭ), from Proto-Slavic *pǫkъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pank-. Compare Ukrainian пук (puk), Czech puk, Polish pęk.

Further cognates, per Vasmer, are Persian پنگ (pang, “date palm cluster”) and Latin pānus (“millet ear”).

пук • (puk) m inan (genitive пу́ка, nominative plural пуки́, genitive plural пуко́в)

1. wisp, bunch, bundle, tuft

• вы́пуклый (výpuklyj)
• пучо́к (pučók)

пук • (puk) m inan (genitive пу́ка, nominative plural пу́ки, genitive plural пу́ков)

1. poot, fart

• пу́кать (púkatʹ), пу́кнуть (púknutʹ)
• пукалка (pukalka), пу́кало (púkalo), пу́кля (púklja)

From earlier *puok, from older плк, from Proto-Slavic *pъlkъ, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *fulkaz.

• IPA^(key): /pûːk/

пу̑к m (Latin spelling pȗk)

1. folk, people
2. (military, Serbia) regiment

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