different between puts vs putu

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/

Verb

puts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of put

Noun

puts

1. plural of put

See also

• putz

Anagrams

• sput, supt., tups

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• putsu

Etymology

From Latin puteus. Compare Romanian pu?.

Noun

puts n (plural putsuri)

1. well

See also

• fãntãnã

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?puts/
• Rhymes: -uts

Verb

puts

1. second-person singular present indicative form of pudir

Estonian

Etymology

Possibly from either Middle Low German putse, pütte (“wet hole, spring, cave”), pute (“sexual organ”), or German Pfütze (“puddle”). Cognate to Votic puttsi.

Noun

puts (genitive putsi, partitive putsi)

1. (vulgar) female genitalia, especially the vulva

Declension

Synonyms

• vitt

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Homophone: putts

Noun

puts c

1. plaster

Related terms

• putsa

Anagrams

• stup

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /?pu?t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pu?tu?/

Noun

putu (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 328:

     Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 242:

     Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).

Related terms

• putu pap

Translations

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *putu(-) (“hole through something, to pierce, has a hole”), from Proto-Eskimo *putru(-) (“hole, to pierce”). Compare putuvoq (“is perforated”), and pussorpoq (“has a hole worn in it”).

Noun

putu (plural putut)

1. hole

Further reading

• DAKA

Hopi

Adjective

putu

1. heavy (possessing great weight)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay putu, from Tamil ?????? (pu??u, “puttu”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?putu]
• Hyphenation: pu?tu

Noun

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

Further reading

• “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?putu/

Noun

putu

1. accusative singular of puta
2. instrumental singular of puta

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?tu]

Verb

putu

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

putu m

1. dative/locative singular of put

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of puto

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. accusative singular of puta

Tausug

Noun

putu

1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.