Pu'er

• Puer (also from Hanyu Pinyin)
• P'u-erh, P'u-êrh, Puerh, Pu-erh (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 普洱 (Pǔ'ěr). As the tea, shortened from Pu'er tea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊəɹ/, /ˈpu.əɹ/
• enPR: po͞o′ĕr′
• Hyphenation: Pu‧er

Pu'er

1. A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
   • 2007 June 8, “Earthquake kills three”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], →OCLC, page 3:

     An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, early last Sunday.

   • 2011, Xiaoxi Li, Jiancheng Pan, editors, China Green Development Index Report 2011‎^[2], →ISBN, page 200:

     In order to improve the quality of Pu'er Tea, Pu'er City strengthened the construction of ecological tea orchards bases.

   • 2018, Ralph E. Harbach, Culicipedia‎^[3], CABI, →ISBN, page 206:

     Lancang Lahu Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City in south-western Yunnan Province.

• Pu'er City

Pu'er (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of pu'er: a kind of tea.

• “Pu'er, P'u-erh, Pu-erh, Puerh”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Ningerh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1326: “Until 1914 called Puerh.”

• Pre-U, pure, Perú, Prue, Peru, reup, re-up, Rupe