puta

See also: puța, puță, püta, and púta

English

Etymology

From Spanish

Noun

puta (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
    • 1988, February 12, “Lawrence Bommer”, in Extremeties/Talking With . . .‎:
      Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta.
    • 2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty‎, page 63:
      And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

  1. whore (prostitute)

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

puta

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

Synonyms

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

puta (plural putas)

  1. (vulgar) whore

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology 1

Imperative of putō (“think, consider”).

Verb

putā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of putō, think

Adverb

puta (not comparable)

  1. suppose, for instance, namely

Etymology 2

From puer (“child”).

Noun

puta f

  1. girl

Lithuanian

Noun

puta f

  1. foam

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈputa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Low German [Term?] or German Pute.

Noun

puta f

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

Etymology 2

Verb

puta

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References

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

Maori

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

Noun

puta f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puta f sg

  1. definite singular of pute

Portuguese

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

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

Adjective

puta (plural, comparable)

  1. Feminine singular of adjective puto.
  2. (vulgar, pejorative, of a girl or woman) promiscuous
  3. (only in some cities in Brazil, 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
    Synonym: baita
    Não pude ir lá por causa de uma puta tempestade. ― I could not go there, because of a fucking storm.
    Você tem uma puta sorte. ― You're so freaking lucky.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

puta m sg

  1. genitive singular of put

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
putaphuta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǔːtaː/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Adverb

pútā (Cyrillic spelling пу́та̄)

  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)
    dva puta ― twice
    pet puta ― five times
    nekoliko puta ― several times
    mnogo puta ― many times
    idućeg puta ― next time
    ovog puta ― this time
    svakog puta ― every time
  2. times (indicating multiplication)
    dva puta dva ― two times two
  • (adverbial sense): pȗt

Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûta/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

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

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[1]) 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.

Adjective

puta

  1. Feminine singular of adjective puto.

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ↑ Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

Swedish

Verb

puta

  1. to pout (one's lips)

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Noun

puta

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

Anagrams

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