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The pronunciation of Puskas is Pushkash, where the 'u' sounds like in the English bull, and 'a' sounds like the second 'a' in the English word alpha, just a longer sound.
The meaning of the word Puskas is gunner, or rifleman. (Puska = rifle, gun. https://dictzone.com/english-hungarian-dictionary/puska)
His original name (Purczeld) is German, I have no idea what that means. His father changed Purczeld to Puskas - quite adequately - in 1937.

His family name is an abridgment: He was born Ferenc Purczeld, but when nationalism swept Hungary in 1935, German ancestry was not a good thing to have. But still, Puszkasz seems to be a genuine Hungarian name, though I don't know what it means... Perhaps it is a borrowing from Polish after all: it resembles Puszkarz, a surname that means 'gunsmith'.

But the surname is hungarian not polish. the two languages, polish an hungarian are completely different. Hungarian like finnish are different from all other european languages!
That's why I think is a very interesting language to learn but unfortunately to difficult:

Some Hungarian surname I know and the meaning:

NAGY : Great
Horvath: Croat
Kis: Short
White: Feher
Nemeth: German
Russian: Orosz
Petofi: son of Peter
Buda; from a name of a Place