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3-letter words (2 found)

PUT,TUP,

2-letter words (2 found)

UP,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of put

put

Etymology 1

From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).

Alternative forms

  • putt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: po͝ot, IPA(key): /pʊt/, [pʰʊʔt]
  • Homophone: putt (accents without foot-strut split)
  • Rhymes: -ʊt

Verb

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)

  1. To place something somewhere.
  2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
  3. (finance) To exercise a put option.
  4. To express something in a certain manner.
  5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
  6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
  7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
  8. To attach or attribute; to assign.
  9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
    • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
      Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
  11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • putten

Noun

put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

  1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
  2. (finance) Short for put option.
    • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
      A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
  3. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
  4. (uncountable) An old card game.
Translations

See also

  • Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • call
  • option

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʌt/
  • Homophone: putt

Noun

put (plural puts)

  1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

Etymology 3

Old French pute.

Noun

put (plural puts)

  1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

References

Anagrams

  • PTU, TPU, UTP, tup

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

Pronunciation

Noun

put (plural putte)

  1. well; pit

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈput]
  • Rhymes: -ut

Verb

put

  1. inflection of pudir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʏt/
  • Hyphenation: put
  • Rhymes: -ʏt
  • Homophone: Puth

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti (“a well”).

Noun

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

  1. pit, well
  2. drain
Derived terms
  • afvoerput
  • beerput
  • opvangput
  • putjesschepper
  • putlucht
  • regenput
  • waterput
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: put
  • Negerhollands: pit, put
  • → Sranan Tongo: peti
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: peti

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

put

  1. inflection of putten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈput/, [ˈput̪]
  • Rhymes: -ut
  • Syllabification(key): put

Interjection

put

  1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /py/
  • Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

Verb

put

  1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

German

Alternative forms

  • putt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʊt/

Interjection

put

  1. (usually repeated several times) chook (call used to attract chickens)

Kalasha

Noun

put

  1. Alternative spelling of putr

Latvian

Verb

put

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of putēt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of putēt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of putēt

Romanian

Verb

put

  1. inflection of puți:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰuht̪/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.

Verb

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

  1. push, shove
  2. jostle
  3. press
Derived terms
  • putan
  • put ann

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

  1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)

Etymology 3

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”).

Noun

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

  1. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
  2. corpulent person; any bulging thing
  3. shovelful, sod, spadeful
  4. (medicine) bruised swelling

Mutation

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “put”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 284

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûːt/

Noun

pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

  1. road
    put za Sarajevo ― road to Sarajevo
    Gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? ― Where does this road lead?
  2. way
    ovim putem ― this way
    ići pravim putem ― to go the right way
    vodeni put ― waterway
    ići svojim putem ― to go one's own way
    stati nekome na put ― to stand in somebody's way
    najkraći put do bolnice ― the shortest way to the hospital
    na pola puta do škole ― halfway to the school
    Teret je na putu. ― The cargo is on the way.
    Miči mi se s puta! ― Get out of my way!
  3. path
    krčiti put ― to clear a path
    put do usp(j)eha ― the path to success
  4. trip, journey, travel
    ići na put ― to go on a trip
    biti na putu ― to be on a trip
    put oko sv(ij)eta ― a trip around the world
    poslovni put ― a business trip
  5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) way, method, means
    sudskim putem ― by legal means; through court order
    službenim/zvaničnim putem ― through official channels
Declension

Further reading

  • “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pût/

Noun

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

  1. complexion, skin hue, tan
    sv(ij)etla put ― fair complexion/tan
    tamna put ― dark complexion/tan
    crna put ― black complexion/tan
  2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities
    mlada put ― a young body
    gladna put ― a hungry body
Declension

Further reading

  • “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 3

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûːt/

Preposition

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)

  1. to, toward
    put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo
    put škole ― to school
    Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.
    Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.

Etymology 4

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

Alternative forms

  • pútā (genitive plural)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pûːt/

Adverb

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

  1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)
    prvi put ― the first time, for the first time
    drugi put ― the second time, for the second time; another time
    ovaj put ― this time
    sljedeći/sledeći put ― the next time
    posljednji/poslednji put ― the last time
    po stoti put ― for the hundredth time
    svaki put ― every time

Further reading

  • “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Noun

put m (plural puts)

  1. (Mexico) papaya

Further reading

  • “put”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English foot.

Noun

put

  1. foot

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian بت (“idol”), from Middle Persian bwt' (“Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰut/

Noun

put (definite accusative putu, plural putlar)

  1. idol (object or thing of spiritual worship)

Declension

Related terms

  • putperest

Further reading

  • “put”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “put”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

Source: wiktionary.org