FromSpanishputa.

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puta (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, chieflyUS Hispanic) Aprostitute,whore,slut,bitch, etc.
   • 1988 February 12, Lawrence Bommer, “Extremeties/Talking With . . .”, inChicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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 yourputa."

   • 2005, Eric Bogosian,Wasted Beauty, page63:

     And we told you, man, we have not seen yourputa sister.

• APTU,Tupa,UATP,patu,tapu

From aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate withFrenchpute,Spanishputa,Portugueseputa,Galicianputa,Catalanputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

puta f (pluralputes)

1. whore(prostitute)

puta ?

1. (vulgar,derogatory)whore,prostitute

From aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate withFrenchpute,Spanishputa,Portugueseputa,Galicianputa,Asturianputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈpu.tə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈpu.ta]

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puta f (pluralputes)

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

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

• putana

• “puta” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed fromSpanishputa.

• Hyphenation:pu‧ta

puta

1. (vulgar)prostitute
2. (derogatory,vulgar)slut;bitch

• (slut):bigaon,igat

FromSpanishputa.

• IPA^(key):/ˈputa/,[ˈpu.t̪a]
• Hyphenation:pu‧ta

puta

1. (vulgar)prostitute
2. (vulgar)bitch(obnoxious person)

• → Tausug:puta

Probably borrowed fromSpanishputa. It appeared first inrap texts. Doublet ofpute.

• IPA^(key):/pu.ta/

puta f (pluralputas)

1. (slang,derogatory,vulgar)bitch
   • 2019,Ninho, “Maman ne le sait pas”, performed by Ninho:

     Dans la ville j’revends le cannabis, maman ne le sait pas
     J’recompte mes potes, tout près des haramistes, le canon d’vant la glace
     Les pneus qui crissent, on est revenus tirer sur ces fils deputa
     Et j’sais qu’Iblis veut pas m’voir m’en tirer, faut qu’j’m’éloigne de tout ça

     In the city I'm selling cannabis, mama don't know it
     I'm counting my buddies, close to the sinners, the gun in front of the mirror
     The tyres squealing, we're back to shoot those sons ofbitches
     And I know Iblis don't want me to get away with it, I gotta get away from it all

2. (slang,derogatory,vulgar)whore
3. (slang,derogatory,vulgar)slut

• pute

FromOld Galician-Portugueseputa, probably from aVulgar Latin*pūtta, variant of*puta, female form of*puttus,putus(“boy”), which is however ahapax legomenon of dubious reading.^[1] Cognate withFrenchpute,Catalanputa,Spanishputa,Portugueseputa,Asturianputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈputa̝/

puta f (pluralputas)

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 hunaputa 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 aslut that had put horns on her husband

3. (vulgar,derogatory)bitch

• fillo de puta

puta m orf (pluralputas)

1. (vulgar)evil;inmoral
2. (vulgar) anintensifier used in a similar way asfucking,freaking ordamn 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

   Non puiden ir alá por causa dunhaputa tormenta. ―I could not go there, because of afucking storm.

   Tes unhaputa sorte! ―You're so freaking lucky! / You're so freaking unlucky!

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “puta”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “puta”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puta”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “puta”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puta”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

FromSpanishputa, andPortugueseputa,Frenchpute,putain andItalianputtana.

puta (pluralputas)

1. (vulgar)whore

• prostituta(“prostitute”)

FromPortugueseputa.

puta

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

Imperative ofputō(“think, consider, prune, trim”).

• putà(early modern)

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.taː/,[ˈpʊt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpuːt̪ä]

putā

1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofputō(“think!”)

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpʊt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpuːt̪ä]
• Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

puta (notcomparable)

1. suppose,for instance,namely

   Synonyms:ut puta,ecce puta,ecce,exemplī grātiā

• puta:(Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpʊt̪ä]
• puta:(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpuːt̪ä]
• putā:(Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.taː/,[ˈpʊt̪äː]
• putā:(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpu.ta/,[ˈpuːt̪ä]

puta

1. inflection ofputus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

putā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofputus

puta f

1. foam

• IPA^(key):/ˈputa/

Borrowed fromEast Central German orGermanPute.

puta f

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

• truta
• turkawa

puta

1. (dialectal)Alternative form ofpyta

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “puta”, inDolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

FromProto-Polynesian*puta. CompareHawaiianpuka.

puta

1. hole
2. anus

puta

1. topass through and out
2. tograduate
3. torun off; toescape
4. to beborn

• puta noa(“across”)

• puten

puta f sg

1. definitefemininesingular ofpute

puta f sg

1. definitesingular ofpute

FromOld Spanishputa, from aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.^[1] Cognate withFrenchpute,Catalanputa,Portugueseputa,Galicianputa,Asturianputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

puta f (pluralputas)

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

From aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading.

puta f

1. whore

   Synonym:putaña

   • by 1325, Anonymous,Crónica de veinte Reyes , (ed. by Terrence A. Mannetter, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):

     llamar vos han fijo deputa, mas non fijo de traydor

     They shall call you son of abitch, but not son of a traitor.

• Spanish:puta

FromSpanishputa andPortugueseputa andKabuverdianuputa.

puta

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

• p*ta(censored)

From aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.^[1] Cognate withFrenchpute,Catalanputa,Spanishputa,Galicianputa,Asturianputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

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puta

1. femininesingular ofputo

puta (feminine-only,feminine pluralputas)

1. (vulgar,derogatory, of a girl or woman)slutty

   Synonym:(Portugal)badalhoca

puta m orf (pluralputas)

1. (Portugal and in some cities inBrazil,vulgar)anintensifier used in a similar way asfucking

   Synonyms:baita,merda

   Não pude ir lá porque estava umaputa de tempestade. ―I could not go there, because there was a hugefucking storm.

   Você tem umaputa de sorte. ―You're sofucking lucky.

Unlikemerda, which can qualify both masculine and feminine words,puta can only be used with feminine words, e.g. one can say botha merda do sol (the fucking sun) anda merda da lua (the fucking moon), but onlya puta da lua and not *a puta do sol.

puta f (pluralputas)

1. (vulgar,derogatory)whore,hooker

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:prostituta

2. (vulgar,derogatory)slut(promiscuous woman)

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:vadia

3. (vulgar,derogatory)bitch(a term of contempt towards women)

• → Saramaccan:púta

puta m sg

1. genitivesingular ofput

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

• IPA^(key):/ˈpǔː.taː/
• Hyphenation:pu‧ta

pútā (Cyrillic spellingпу́та̄)

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

FromOld High Germanputtina.

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

pȕta f (Cyrillic spellingпу̏та)

1. (regional)woodendish orplate (usually made by acooper)

puta (Cyrillic spellingпута)

1. inflection ofputo:
   1. genitivesingular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocativeplural

IPA^(key):[ˈputa]

puta

1. genitivesingular ofputo

• IPA^(key):/ˈputa/[ˈpu.t̪a]

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• Rhymes:-uta
• Syllabification:pu‧ta

Inherited fromOld Spanishputa, from aVulgar Latin*pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived fromLatin*puta, female form ofLatinputus(“teeny boy”), ahapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.^[1] Cognate withFrenchpute,Catalanputa,Portugueseputa,Galicianputa,Asturianputa, as well as OldItalianputta(“girl”).

puta f (pluralputas)

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

   Synonyms:golfa,maraca,prostituta,ramera,perra,(obsolete)putaña

2. (derogatory,vulgar)bitch

   Synonyms:zorra,perra

puta

1. femininesingular ofputo

Clipping ofputa madre.

puta

1. (Bolivia,Ecuador,Chile,Peru,vulgar,colloquial)fuck!shit!

• > Chavacano:puta(inherited)
• → Cebuano:puta
• → English:puta
• → Tagalog:puta

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

• “puta”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “puta”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish),Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española],2010

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• Rhymes:-²ʉːta

puta (presentputar,preteriteputade,supineputat,imperativeputa)

1. topout(one's lips)

   puta med läpparna

   pout one's lips

• depota,shuta,fucha,pucha,putsa,putik,putek,putris,putragis,putspa —minced oath
• pota —colloquial

Borrowed fromSpanishputa.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈputa/[ˈpuː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-uta
• Syllabification:pu‧ta

puta (Baybayin spellingᜉᜓᜆ)

1. prostitute

   Synonyms:pokpok,hostes,GRO,patutot,kalapati,kalapating mababa ang lipad,ibong mababa ang lipad,kaladkarin,(Batangas, Mindoro)pagerper,belyas,pampam,prosti,prostituta,balihanda,nagbebenta ng laman,balihantot

2. (derogatory,vulgar)term of abuse:bitch

• The Commission on the Filipino Language treats this as the neutral word for a prostitute, but the English term is often used in its place due to its roots as a Spanish vulgarity.

puta (Baybayin spellingᜉᜓᜆ)

1. (vulgar,derogatory,colloquial)said indismay ordiscontent.

• “puta”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

• tupa,upat,Tupa

IPA^(key):/puˈta/

puta

1. dativesingular ofput