puta

See also: puța, puță, püta, púta, pútà, пута, and pụta

English

Etymology

From Spanish puta.

Noun

puta (uncountable)

(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

APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, tapu

Asturian

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

whore (prostitute)

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.tə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

(derogatory, vulgar) prostitute, whore, slut
mischievous

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

fill de puta
putada
putejar
putenc
puteria

Related terms

putana

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

puta

(derogatory, vulgar) a prostitute
(derogatory, vulgar) a slut
(derogatory, vulgar) a bitch

Synonyms

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

French

Probably borrowed from Spanish puta. It appeared first in rap texts.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) bitch
- 2019, Ninho (lyrics and music), “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 de puta
  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 the cannabis, mama don't know it
  I'm counting my buddies, close to the haramists, the gun in front of the ice
  The tyres squealing, we're back to shoot those sons of bitches
  And I know Iblis don't want me to get away with it, I gotta get away from it all
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) whore
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) slut

Synonyms

pute

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese puta, probably from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, variant of *puta, female form of *puttus, putus (“boy”), which is however a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa̝/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory) whore
Synonym: prostituta
(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
(vulgar, derogatory) bitch

Derived terms

fillo de puta

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

(vulgar) evil; inmoral
(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
Non puiden ir alá por causa dunha puta tormenta. ― I could not go there, because of a fucking storm.
Tes unha puta sorte! ― You're so freaking lucky! / You're so freaking unlucky!

References

Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

“puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“puta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“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 Spanish puta, and Portuguese puta, French pute, putain and Italian puttana.

Noun

puta (plural putas)

(vulgar) whore

Synonyms

prostituta (“prostitute”)

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta

(slang) whore, slut, prostitute
(slang) bitch

Latin

Etymology 1

Imperative of putō (“think, consider, prune, trim”).

Alternative forms

putà (early modern)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Verb

putā

second-person singular present active imperative of putō (“think!”)

Etymology 2

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]

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

Adverb

puta (not comparable)

suppose, for instance, namely
Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exemplī grātiā

Pronunciation

puta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]

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

putā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Adjective

puta

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

Adjective

putā

ablative feminine singular of putus

Lithuanian

Noun

puta f

foam

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

Noun

puta f

(female) turkey (bird)
turkey (meat)

Declension

Declension of puta

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	puta	puśe	puty
Genitive	puty	putowu	putow
Dative	puśe	putoma	putam
Accusative	putu	puśe	puty
Instrumental	putu	putoma	putami
Locative	puśe	putoma	putach

Synonyms

truta
turkawa

Verb

puta

(dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References

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

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

Noun

puta

hole
anus

Verb

puta

to pass through and out
to graduate
to run off; to escape
to be born

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

puten

Noun

puta f sg

definite feminine singular of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puta f sg

definite singular of pute

Old Spanish

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.

Noun

puta f

whore
- by 1325, Anonymous, Crónica de veinte Reyes , (ed. by Terrence A. Mannetter, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):
  llamar vos han fijo de puta, mas non fijo de traydor
  They shall call you son of a bitch, but not son of a traitor.
Synonym: putaña

Descendants

Spanish: puta

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

Noun

puta

(slang) (vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
(slang) (vulgar) bitch

Portuguese

Alternative forms

p*ta (censored)

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.[1]

Adjective

puta

feminine singular of puto

Adjective

puta (feminine-only, feminine plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) promiscuous

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

(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
Não pude ir lá porque tinha uma puta tempestade. ― I could not go there, because there was a huge fucking storm.
Você tem uma puta sorte. ― You're so frigging lucky.

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory) prostitute, whore, hooker
(vulgar, derogatory) slut (promiscuous woman)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia

References

Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

puta m sg

genitive singular of put

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
puta	phuta
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)

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
times (indicating multiplication)
dva puta dva ― two times two

Related terms

(adverbial sense): pȗt

Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pûta/
Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

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

Declension

Declension of puta

	singular	plural
nominative	puta	pute
genitive	pute	puta
dative	puti	putama
accusative	putu	pute
vocative	puto	pute
locative	puti	putama
instrumental	putom	putama

Noun

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]
Audio (Colombia) (file)
Rhymes: -uta
Syllabification: pu‧ta

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera
(derogatory, vulgar) bitch
Synonym: zorra

Derived terms

callarse como una puta
casa de putas f
chuloputas
de puta madre
hija de puta
hijo de puta m
hijoputa m
ir de putas
más puta que Rita
me cago en la puta
o follamos todos, o la puta al río
putada f
puta de quinta
puta madre
putañear (verb)
puta que te parió
puta que te parió
puteada f
putear (verb)
puterío m
putona
putón berbenero
puto m

Related terms

putañear (verb)

Adjective

puta

feminine singular of puto

Descendants

→ Cebuano: puta
→ English: puta
→ Tagalog: puta

References

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -²ʉːta

Verb

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

to pout (one's lips)
puta med läpparna
pout one's lips

Conjugation

Conjugation of puta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	puta		—
Supine	putat		—
Imperative	puta		—
Imper. plural¹	puten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	putar	putade	—	—
Ind. plural¹	puta	putade	—	—
Subjunctive²	pute	putade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	putande
Past participle	putad
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

shuta, fucha, pucha, putsa, putik, putek, putris, putragis, putspa – minced oath
pota

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pu‧ta

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.tɐ]

Noun

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

prostitute
Synonyms: pokpok, hostes, GRO
(derogatory, vulgar) Term of abuse: bitch

Usage notes

The Commision 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.

Derived terms

anak ng puta
putang ina
putang ina mo

Interjection

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

(vulgar, derogatory, colloquial) Said in dismay or discontent.

Anagrams

tupa

Tahitian

Noun

book

[1] Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

[2] Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

[3] Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

puta

English

Etymology

Noun

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Cebuano

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Galician

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Adjective

References

Interlingua

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

Noun

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adverb

Pronunciation

Adjective

Adjective

Lithuanian

Noun

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Verb

References

Maori

Etymology

Noun

Verb

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Old Spanish

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

Papiamentu

Etymology

Noun

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Adjective

Adjective

Adjective