butas

butas

See also: būtas

English

Noun

butas

1. plural of buta

Anagrams

• Taubs, abuts, buats, busta, tabus, tsuba, tubas

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Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧tas
• IPA^(key): /buˈtas/

Noun

butás

1. act of setting free, setting loose
2. act of freeing, releasing
3. act of fumbling

   Synonyms: kapkap, kamas-kamas

4. weaning

   Synonym: tari

Derived terms

• butasan
• butason
• mabutasan
• magbutas
• makabutas

 

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧tas

Noun

butas

1. a ritual offering to the spirits for a good harvest

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French

Verb

butas

1. second-person singular past historic of buter

Anagrams

• tubas

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Lithuanian

Butas

Alternative forms

• butà (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become”), cf. būti (“to be”). Cognate with Old Prussian buttan (“house”), Old Irish both (“hut”), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, hut”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʊt̪ɐs̪]

Noun

bùtas m (plural bùtai) stress pattern 2

1. flat, apartment

   Àš gyvenù víeno kam̃bario butè.

   I live in a one room apartment.

2. (dialectal) house, cottage
3. (Žemaitian) building, house

Declension

declension of butas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	bùtas	bùtai
genitive (kilmininkas)	bùto	bùtų
dative (naudininkas)	bùtui	bùtams
accusative (galininkas)	bùtą	butùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	butù	bùtais
locative (vietininkas)	butè	bùtuose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	bùte	bùtai

Derived terms

• bendrabutis

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “butas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
2. “butà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 172 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
3. “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Further reading

• “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
• “butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2023

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Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

• Hyphenation: bu‧tas
• IPA^(key): /ˈbutas/, [ˈbu.tɐs]

Noun

bútas

1. hole; pit
2. orifice; opening; mouth; outlet
3. eye (of a needle)
4. leak; crack
5. act of boring a hole; perforation

   Synonym: pagbutas

6. (figurative) loophole; means of escape

   Synonym: lusutan

Derived terms

• bumutas
• butasan
• butas-ilong
• butasin
• dumaan sa butas ng karayom
• ipambutas
• itim na butas
• mabutas
• magbutas
• magkabutas-butas
• pagbubutas
• pagbubutas-butas
• pagbutas
• pagbutas-butasin
• pamasak-butas
• pambutas
• takip-butas

 

Pronunciation 2

• Hyphenation: bu‧tas
• IPA^(key): /buˈtas/, [bʊˈtas]

Adjective

butás

1. perforated; punctured; with hole or holes

   Synonym: busbos

2. (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)

Derived terms

• butas ang bulsa
• butas-butas
• pagkamabutas