put

See also: Appendix:Variations of "put"

English

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]

  • Audio (UK); “to put”:

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  • Audio (US):

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /pʉt/
• Homophone: putt (without the 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.

   She put her books on the table.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
   • 1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 11:

     Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,

   Put your house in order!

   He is putting all his energy into this one task.

   She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option.

   He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

4. To express something in a certain manner.

   When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:

     All this is ingeniously and ably put.

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.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.

   to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, John 15:13, page 280:

     No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

    to put a question; to put a case

    • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book

      Put the perceptions and you put the mind.

    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

      Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.

11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston:

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 386:

      Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge

    • 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

      Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.

12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Conjugation

Conjugation of put

infinitive	(to) put
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	put	put
2nd-person singular	put, puttest†	put, puttedst†
3rd-person singular	puts, putteth†	put
plural	put
subjunctive	put	put
imperative	put	—
participles	putting	put

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

Terms derived from put (verb)

• don't put all your eggs in one basket
• enough to put in one's eye
• forthput
• hard put
• input
• I put it to you
• mama put
• never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
• not to put too fine a point on it
• not to put too fine a word on it
• off-put
• output
• putable
• put a block on
• put about
• put a brave face on
• put a bug in someone's ear
• put a civil tongue in one's head
• put a civil tongue in one's mouth
• put a cork in it
• put a crimp in
• put across
• put a damper on
• put a dent in the universe
• put a foot wrong
• put a gun to someone's head
• put a hat on a hat
• put ahead
• put a hurt on
• put a lid on
• put a lid on it
• put all one's eggs in one basket
• put a name to
• put and take
• put-and-take
• put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
• put an end to
• put a pin in
• put a premium on
• put a rod in pickle
• put around
• put a shift in
• put aside
• put a sock in it
• put a spanner in the works
• put a spoke in someone's wheel
• put a stop to
• put asunder
• put at ease
• put away
• put-back
• put back
• put before
• put behind one
• put bread on the table
• put butter on one's bread
• put by
• put case
• put daylight between oneself and someone
• put down
• put-down
• put-downable
• put down as
• put down for
• put down roots
• put down to
• put 'em up
• put end
• put facts on the ground
• put food on the table
• put foot to ass
• put forth
• put forward
• put hair on one's chest
• put hair on someone's chest
• put heads together
• put her there
• put him in to get him out
• put horns on
• put-in
• put in
• put in a good word
• put in an appearance
• put in an oar
• put in a word
• put in mind
• put in motion
• put in one's oar
• put in place
• put in pledge
• put in practice
• put in the ground
• put in the pin
• put in the shade
• put in the work
• put into
• put into action
• put into context
• put into effect
• put into practice
• put into words
• put in with
• put in writing
• put it about
• put it down
• put it mildly
• put it past
• put it there
• put it to
• put lie to
• put lipstick on a pig
• put off
• put-on
• put on
• put on a brave face
• put on a clinic
• put on airs
• put on a pedestal
• put on dog
• put one across
• put one foot in front of the other
• put one over
• put one past
• put one's affairs in order
• put one's ass on the line
• put one's back into
• put one's best foot foremost
• put one's best foot forward
• put one's cards on the table
• put oneself about
• put oneself across
• put oneself in someone's place
• put oneself in someone's shoes
• put oneself out
• put oneself out of the way
• put one's feet up
• put one's finger on
• put one's fist to
• put one's foot down
• put one's foot down on
• put one's foot down upon
• put one's foot in it
• put one's foot in one's mouth
• put one's foot in someone's ass
• put one's foot up someone's ass
• put one's hands on
• put one's hands together
• put one's hands up
• put one's hand to
• put one's hand to the plough
• put one's hand up
• put one's head above the parapet
• put one's head in the sand
• put one's heart in
• put one's heart on one's sleeve
• put one's household in order
• put one's house in order
• put one's mind to it
• put one's money where one's mouth is
• put one's name in the hat
• put one's oar in
• put one's pants on one leg at a time
• put one's shoulder into
• put one's shoulder to the wheel
• put one's stamp
• put one's toe in the water
• put one's trousers on one leg at a time
• put one through one's paces
• put on frills
• put on one's dancing shoes
• put on one's pants one leg at a time
• put on one's trousers one leg at a time
• put on the block
• put on the brakes
• put on the dog
• put on the kibosh
• put on the map
• put on the pounds
• put on the red light
• put on the Ritz
• put on the ritz
• put onto
• put on weight
• put-out
• put out
• put out a fire
• put out feelers
• put out of one's head
• put out of one's mind
• put out the fire
• put out to grass
• put out to pasture
• put over
• put paid to
• put past
• put pedal to the metal
• put pen to paper
• put right
• put round
• put salt on someone's tail
• put someone in a box
• put someone in a false position
• put someone in hospital
• put someone in mind of
• put someone in their place
• put someone in the picture
• put someone on blast
• put someone on game
• put someone on ice
• put someone on to
• put someone out of their misery
• put someone's back up
• put someone's lights out
• put someone's pipe out
• put someone through their paces
• put someone to their trumps
• put someone to their trumps
• put someone under
• put someone up to something
• put someone wise
• put something behind one
• put something down to experience
• put something into perspective
• put something over
• put some timber on
• put spurs to
• put stock in
• put store by
• put store in
• put straight
• puttable
• put that in your pipe and smoke it
• put the arm on someone
• put the bad mouth on
• put the bee on
• put the beggar on the gentleman
• put the bite on
• put the blame on
• put the boot in
• put the bottom rail on top
• put the brakes on
• put the cabosh on
• put the cart before the horse
• put the case
• put the cat among the pigeons
• put the change on someone
• put the clock back
• put the clock forward
• put the clocks back
• put the cork back in the bottle
• put the dead wood on
• put the fear of God into
• put the feedbag on
• put the fries in the bag
• put the frighteners on someone
• put the genie back in the bottle
• put the hammer down
• put the heart across one
• put the heat on
• put the herd on someone
• put the kibosh on
• put the last hand to
• put the lid on
• put the lie to
• put the make on
• put the miller's eye out
• put the moves on
• put the pedal to the medal
• put the pedal to the metal
• put the plug in the jug
• put the pot on
• put the record straight
• put the saddle on the right horse
• put the same shoe on every foot
• put the screw
• put the screws
• put the shits up someone
• put the shoe on the other foot
• put the squeeze on
• put the stunners on
• put the tin lid on it
• put the toothpaste back in the tube
• put the wind up
• put the wood in the hole
• put the world to rights
• put through
• put through its paces
• put through the mangle
• put through the mill
• put through the wringer
• put to
• put to bed
• put to bed with a shovel
• put to death
• put-together
• put together
• put to good use
• put to lie
• put to rest
• put to sea
• put to shame
• put to sleep
• put to the blush
• put to the horn
• put to the sword
• put to the test
• put to the torch
• put to use
• put to words
• put to work
• put two and two together
• put two and two together and come up with five
• put two and two together and make five
• put under
• put up
• put-up (adjective)
• put up a fight
• put up a show
• put-up job
• put up on
• put upon
• put-upon
• put up one's dukes
• put up one's hand
• put up one's hands
• put up or shut up
• put up the shutters
• put up to
• put up with
• put wise
• put with
• put words in someone's mouth
• ridden hard and put away wet
• ride hard and put away wet
• ride someone hard and put them away wet
• rode hard and put up wet
• stay put
• to put it another way
• un-put-downable
• well-put
• who put a quarter in you
• you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
• you can't put an old head on young shoulders
• you can't put a wise head on young shoulders
• you can't put the shit back in the horse
• you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
• you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube

 

Translations

to place something somewhere

• Arabic: وَضَعَ (ar) (waḍaʕa), حَطَّ (ḥaṭṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: حط (ḥaṭṭ)

  Hijazi Arabic: حط (ḥaṭṭ), يحُط (yiḥuṭ)

  Moroccan Arabic: حط (ḥaṭṭ)

  South Levantine Arabic: حط (ḥaṭṭ)

• Aragonese: meter (an)
• Armenian: դնել (hy) (dnel)
• Assamese: থ (tho), বহা (boha)
• Azerbaijani: qoymaq (az)
• Bashkir: ҡуйыу (quyıw)
• Basque: ezarri, ipini
• Belarusian: кла́сці (be) impf (klásci), пакла́сці pf (paklásci), ста́віць impf (stávicʹ), паста́віць pf (pastávicʹ)
• Bulgarian: сла́гам (bg) impf (slágam), сло́жа pf (slóža)
• Burmese: ထား (my) (hta:), တင် (my) (tang)
• Catalan: posar (ca), ficar (ca), metre (ca)
• Cebuano: i-butang
• Chechen: дила (dila)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放 (zh) (fàng), 置 (zh) (zhì), 放置 (zh) (fàngzhì)

• Cornish: gorra
• Czech: dát (cs), umístit (cs)
• Dalmatian: metar, miater
• Danish: sætte (da), stille (da), lægge (da), placere (da)
• Dutch: zetten (nl), plaatsen (nl), leggen (nl), doen (nl), stellen (nl)
• Esperanto: meti
• Estonian: panema (et), asetama
• Even: нэ- (nə-)
• Evenki: нэ- (nə-), или- (ili-)
• Finnish: panna (fi), laittaa (fi), asettaa (fi)
• French: placer (fr), mettre (fr), poser (fr)
• Friulian: meti
• Galician: pór (gl), poñer (gl)
• German: setzen (de), stellen (de), legen (de), tun (de)
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan)
• Greek: βάζω (el) (vázo), θέτω (el) (théto)

  Ancient: τίθημι (títhēmi)

• Haitian Creole: mete
• Hebrew: שים (sim)
• Hindi: रखना (hi) (rakhnā)
• Hungarian: tesz (hu), rak (hu), helyez (hu)
• Indonesian: taruh (id), letak (id)
• Ingrian: panna, löövvä, asettaa, issuttaa, laittaa
• Ingush: дила (dila)
• Interlingua: poner
• Irish: cuir (ga)

  Old Irish: fo·ceird

• Istriot: meti
• Italian: mettere (it), porre (it)
• Japanese: 置く (ja) (おく, oku), 据える (ja) (sueru)
• Kambera: tú
• Khmer: ដាក់ (km) (dak)
• Korean: 두다 (ko) (duda), 놓다 (ko) (nota)
• Kumyk: салмакъ (salmaq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: danîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: койуу (koyuu), салуу (ky) (saluu)
• Ladin: meter
• Lao: ວາງ (wāng)
• Latin: pōnō (la), locō (la)
• Latvian: likt (lv)
• Lombard: mètt (lmo), met
• Luxembourgish: setzen
• Macedonian: става (stava)
• Malay: letak
• Malayalam: ഇടുക (ml) (iṭuka)
• Maltese: poġġa
• Manx: cur
• Maori: panga, whakatakoto
• Mauritian Creole: mete
• Mbyá Guaraní: moĩ
• Nanai: нэ- (ne-)
• Neapolitan: mette
• Norman: mettre
• Norwegian: sette (no)
• Occitan: ficar (oc), botar (oc), pausar (oc), metre (oc)
• Old English: dōn, leċġan, settan, stellan
• Oromo: kaa'uu
• Pashto: اچول (ps) (ačawəl)
• Pela: ta̠³⁵
• Persian: گذاشتن (fa) (gozâštan), ماندن (fa) (mândan)
• Plautdietsch: stalen
• Polish: kłaść (pl), postawić (pl) pf, umieścić (pl) pf, jebnąć (pl) pf (vulgar), pierdolnąć (pl) pf (vulgar), stawiać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: pôr (pt), colocar (pt), botar (pt)
• Quechua: churay
• Romagnol: mètar
• Romanian: pune (ro)
• Romansch: metter, meter
• Russian: класть (ru) impf (klastʹ), положи́ть (ru) pf (položítʹ), ста́вить (ru) impf (stávitʹ), поста́вить (ru) pf (postávitʹ)
• Sanskrit: दधाति (sa) (dadhāti)
• Sardinian: míntere, míntiri
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ста̏вити

  Roman: stȁviti (sh)

• Sicilian: mèttiri (scn), mèntiri (scn), mintiri (scn), mittiri (scn)
• Slovak: dať, položiť
• Slovene: staviti
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: stajaś impf, stajiś pf

• Spanish: poner (es), colocar (es), situar (es), sestar
• Swahili: kuweka
• Swedish: sätta (sv), ställa (sv), lägga (sv), he (sv), placera (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠕꠃꠣ (tóua)
• Tagalog: ilagay
• Tajik: мондан (tg) (mondan)
• Tamil: வை (ta) (vai), போடு (ta) (pōṭu), இடு (ta) (iṭu)
• Tetum: tau
• Thai: วาง (th) (waang)
• Tibetan: འཇོག ('jog)
• Tocharian B: tā-
• Tok Pisin: putim
• Turkish: koymak (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎚 (št)
• Ukrainian: кла́сти (uk) impf (klásty), покла́сти pf (poklásty), ста́вити (uk) impf (stávyty), поста́вити pf (postávyty)
• Urdu: رکھنا (rakhnā)
• Venetan: métar, meter, méter, métare
• Vietnamese: để (vi), đặt (vi)
• Walloon: mete (wa), bouter (wa)
• Waray-Waray: i-butang, ig-butang
• Welsh: dodi (cy), gosod (cy)
• Yagnobi: мунак (munak)
• Yiddish: אַוועקזעצן pf (avekzetsn), אַוועקלייגן (avekleygn)

to bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition

• Ancient Greek: τίθημι (títhēmi)
• Bulgarian: поставям (bg) (postavjam)
• Czech: dát (cs)
• Danish: bringe (da)
• Finnish: panna (fi)
• German: bringen (de)
• Hebrew: שים (shim)
• Hungarian: tesz (hu), hoz (hu), rak (hu)
• Korean: 두다 (ko) (duda), 놓다 (ko) (nota)
• Macedonian: доведува (doveduva), става (stava)
• Portuguese: deixar (pt)
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir
• Serbo-Croatian: dovesti (sh), staviti (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: póraś impf

finance: to exercise a put option

• Czech: uplatnit put opci (Opce s právem prodeje za uvedenou cenu)
• Finnish: käyttää put-optio

to express something in a certain manner

• Czech: postavit (cs)
• Danish: formulere
• Dutch: stellen (nl), brengen (nl)
• Finnish: esittää (fi)
• French: mettre (fr)
• Greek: θέτω (el) (théto)
• Italian: porre (it), mettere (it)
• Korean: 나타내다 (ko) (natanaeda) (for thought, feeling)
• Macedonian: поставува (postavuva), искажува (iskažuva)
• Norwegian: ordlegge
• Portuguese: pôr (pt)
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir
• Serbo-Croatian: postaviti (sh), kazati (sh)

athletics: to throw an iron ball

• Bulgarian: тласкам (bg) (tlaskam)
• Czech: vrhnout (cs)
• Finnish: työntää (fi)
• German: kugelstoßen (de)
• Greek: ρίχνω (el) (ríchno)
• Pashto: اچول (ps) (ačawəl)
• Scottish Gaelic: tilg
• Swedish: stöta (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} vë
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} posar (ca), ^{(please verify)} pondre (ca)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} pozar (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} meletakkan (id), ^{(please verify)} menaruh (id)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} دانان (ckb) (danan)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} pune (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} posaditi (sh), ^{(please verify)} staviti (sh), ^{(please verify)} položiti (sh)
• Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} گھيڙڻ (gherraṇ), ^{(please verify)} گھيڙائِڻ (gherrāiṇ)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} lägga (sv) (to put something flat) (1), ^{(please verify)} ställa (sv) (to put something upright) (1), ^{(please verify)} placera (sv) (1,2), ^{(please verify)} göra iordning (2)

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.

   He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.

   • 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.

   the put of a ball

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.

4. (uncountable) An old card game.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:

     Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.

Translations

finance: contract to sell a security at a set price

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 認沽期權／认沽期权 (rèngū qīquán)

• German: Put (de) m or n
• Polish: opcja sprzedaży f

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.
   • 1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste:

     Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
     And of lost hospitality complain.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244:

     The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

   • 1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review:

     Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

Etymology 3

From Old French pute.

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

put (plural putte)

1. well; pit

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
put	phut
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Declension of put

	singular	plural
nominative	pȗt	pútovi / pútevi / púti
genitive	púta	pútēvā / pútōvā
dative	putu	pútovima / pútevima / pútima
accusative	pȗt	pútove / púteve / púte
vocative	pute	pútovi / pútevi / púti
locative	putu	pútovima /pútevima / pútima
instrumental	pútom / pútem	pútovima /pútevima / pútima

Further reading

• “put”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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

Declension of put

	singular	plural
nominative	put	puti
genitive	puti	puti
dative	puti	putima
accusative	put	puti
vocative	puti	puti
locative	puti	putima
instrumental	puću	putima

Further reading

• “put”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Noun

put m (plural puts)

1. (Mexico) papaya

Further reading

• “put”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

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

Inflection
Nominative	put
Definite accusative	putu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	put	putlar
Definite accusative	putu	putları
Dative	puta	putlara
Locative	putta	putlarda
Ablative	puttan	putlardan
Genitive	putun	putların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular putum putlarım 2nd singular putun putların 3rd singular putu putları 1st plural putumuz putlarımız 2nd plural putunuz putlarınız 3rd plural putları putları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular putumu putlarımı 2nd singular putunu putlarını 3rd singular putunu putlarını 1st plural putumuzu putlarımızı 2nd plural putunuzu putlarınızı 3rd plural putlarını putlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular putuma putlarıma 2nd singular putuna putlarına 3rd singular putuna putlarına 1st plural putumuza putlarımıza 2nd plural putunuza putlarınıza 3rd plural putlarına putlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular putumda putlarımda 2nd singular putunda putlarında 3rd singular putunda putlarında 1st plural putumuzda putlarımızda 2nd plural putunuzda putlarınızda 3rd plural putlarında putlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular putumdan putlarımdan 2nd singular putundan putlarından 3rd singular putundan putlarından 1st plural putumuzdan putlarımızdan 2nd plural putunuzdan putlarınızdan 3rd plural putlarından putlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular putumun putlarımın 2nd singular putunun putlarının 3rd singular putunun putlarının 1st plural putumuzun putlarımızın 2nd plural putunuzun putlarınızın 3rd plural putlarının putlarının

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