pulu
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pulu
Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1825–35
Example Sentences
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Cited in 1872, polo is a rendering of a Balti Tibetan word, pulu, or "ball," that target of the sport's swinging mallets.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu.
From Time Magazine Archive
So pulu was put on th' free list, an' iv coorse Zapper an' Alazarin had to go on, too, as it is on'y be addin' thim to pulu that ye can make axle-grease.
From Mr. Dooley Says by Finley Peter Dunne
It was called "O le asi pulu tangata," the asi tree the refuge of men.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
To be sick in common speech was mai, but in polite language it was ngasengase, faatafa, pulu pulusi.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Sir James George Frazer
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