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English

Etymology

From Spanish puta.

Noun

puta (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.

Anagrams

• Tupa, UATP, patu, tapu

Asturian

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

1. whore (prostitute)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pu.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) prostitute, whore, slut
2. mischievous

Synonyms

• bagassa, barjaula, barram, folla fembra, meuca, prostituta

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu?ta

Noun

puta

1. (derogatory, vulgar) a prostitute
2. (derogatory, vulgar) a slut
3. (derogatory, vulgar) a bitch

Synonyms

• (slut): bigaon, igat
• (slutty): aryat, bigaon, bigatla, igat

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese puta, probably from Vulgar Latin *putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puta?/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore

   Synonym: prostituta

2. (vulgar, derogatory) slut
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. 164;

     Iten Costança de Riba davia diso porlo dito juramento que feito avya que lle oyra diser que disera a dita Costança Vasques que era huna puta que posera as cornas ao marido

     Item, Constanza de Ribadavia said, by that oath that she had done, that she heard that said Constanza Vázquez was a slut that had put horns on her husband

3. (vulgar, derogatory) bitch

Derived terms

• fillo de puta

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar) evil; inmoral
2. (vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, freaking or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way, if the person is jealous

References

• “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “puta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “puta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “puta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian puttana, French putain, Spanish puta, and Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta (plural putas)

1. (vulgar) whore

Synonyms

• prostituta (“prostitute”)

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta

1. (slang) whore, slut, prostitute
2. (slang) bitch

Latin

Etymology 1

Imperative of put? (“think, consider”).

Alternative forms

• putà (early modern)

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ta?/, [?p?t?ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ta/, [?pu?t??]

Verb

put?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of put? (“think!”)

Etymology 2

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ta/, [?p?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ta/, [?pu?t??]
• Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

Adverb

puta (not comparable)

1. suppose, for instance, namely

   Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exempl? gr?ti?

Etymology 3

Adjective

puta

1. nominative/vocative feminine singular of putus
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of putus

Adjective

put?

1. ablative feminine singular of putus

Lithuanian

Noun

puta f

1. foam

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puta/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

Noun

puta f

1. (female) turkey (bird)
2. turkey (meat)

Declension

Synonyms

• truta
• turkawa

Etymology 2

Verb

puta

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References

• puta in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

Noun

puta

1. hole
2. anus

Verb

puta

1. to pass through and out
2. to graduate
3. to run off; to escape
4. to be born

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• puten

Noun

puta f sg

1. definite feminine singular of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puta f sg

1. definite singular of pute

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

Noun

puta

1. (slang) (vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
2. (slang) (vulgar) bitch

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to Italian puttana (Old Spanish putaña; see putañear), which ultimately derives from Latin putus (“boy”). María Moliner dictionary (also Joan Coromines) states the most probable origin: from Vulgar Latin putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”). Note that this word appears in all Romance languages.

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) prostitute, whore, hooker, slut

Adjective

puta (plural, comparable)

1. feminine singular of puto
2. (vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) promiscuous
3. (only in some cities in Brazil, vulgar, also in Portugal) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, frigging or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way if the person is jealous

   Synonyms: baita, gaita

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

puta m sg

1. genitive singular of put

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Genitive singular form of p?t (“road, path, way”), but used in plural constructions as an alternative form of the adverb p?t (“time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ta?/
• Hyphenation: pu?ta

Adverb

pút? (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. times (in combination with cardinals greater than or equal to two, and other words indicating quantity, specifying how many times has the action been repeated)

2. times (indicating multiplication)

Related terms

• (adverbial sense): p?t

Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûta/
• Hyphenation: pu?ta

Noun

p?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional) wooden dish or plate (usually made by a cooper)

Declension

Noun

puta (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of puto:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to Italian puttana (Old Spanish putaña; see putañear), which ultimately derives from Latin putus (“boy”). María Moliner dictionary (also Joan Coromines) states the most probable origin: from Vulgar Latin putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”). Note that this word appears in all Romance languages.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puta/, [?pu.t?a]

Adjective

puta

1. feminine singular of puto

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute

   Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera

2. (derogatory, vulgar) bitch

   Synonym: zorra

Derived terms

Related terms

• putañear (verb)

See also

• dejada f
• golfa f
• mujerzuela f
• ramera f
• tu madre f

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: puta
• ? English: puta
• ? Tagalog: puta

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -²??ta

Verb

puta (present putar, preterite putade, supine putat, imperative puta)

1. to pout (one's lips)

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Noun

puta

1. (derogatory, vulgar) prostitute, whore, slut

Interjection

puta

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.

See also

• (colloquial alternative spelling) pota
• putang ina
• putang ina mo

Anagrams

• tupa

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

putz (plural putzes)

1. (slang, derogatory) Fool, idiot.
2. (slang, derogatory) Jerk.

   Synonym: schmuck
3. (slang) Penis.

   Synonym: schmuck

Derived terms

• putzhead, putz-head, putz head

Verb

putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)

1. (slang) Waste time.

   Synonym: futz

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.

Alternative forms

• Putz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

putz (plural putzes)

1. A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.
   • 1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:

     The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.

Verb

putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)

1. (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of puta.

Alternative forms

• puts

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?puts/, [?put?s]

Interjection

putz

1. (slang) Used to emphasize something that has gone wrong.

   Synonym: putz grila