Where does “puma” come from?

puma (Turkish) comes from Spanish puma, from Quechua puma — puma; cougar; mountain lion.

puma (Turkish): cougar, puma, mountain lion, any wild felid of the species Puma concolor, native to the Americas

Definitions

  1. cougar, puma, mountain lion, any wild felid of the species Puma concolor, native to the Americas

Ancestry of “puma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishpumacougar, mountain lion, puma
2Quechuapumapuma; cougar; mountain lion
Every word from Quechua puma
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