pugna
Spanish, noun
pugna is spelled P-U-G-N-A (5 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,508th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pugna is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “fight; ruckus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pugnar. With an accent, pugná is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of pugnar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Enfrentamiento, físico o no, entre dos grupos que se disputan la supremacía”.
What does pugna mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefight; ruckus
- 2
femininestruggle
- 3
femininebattle
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of pugnar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enfrentamiento, físico o no, entre dos grupos que se disputan la supremacía. 2. Por extensión, oposición de persona a persona o entre naciones, bandos o parcialidades.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pugna
- pugnas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pugna
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pugna in Spanish?
pugna appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).