buta

See also: buta', butà, butą, búta, bûta, -buta, ˈbuta, and ɓūtà

Languages (42)

English

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Acehnese • Afar • Balinese • Blagar • Bunun • Central Bikol • East Miraya Bikol • French • Hausa • Higaonon • Hiligaynon • Hungarian • Iban • Indonesian • Irish • Japanese • Javanese • Kituba • Lala (South Africa) • Libon Bikol • Lingala • Luba-Kasai • Luba-Katanga • Malay • Masbate Sorsogon • Masbatenyo • Northern Catanduanes Bikol • Old Frisian • Old Polish • Papiamentu • Phuthi • Polish • Rinconada Bikol • Southern Catanduanes Bikol • Sundanese • Swazi • Tatar • Tausug • Waray Sorsogon • Waray-Waray • West Miraya Bikol

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بته (butta); see boteh.

Noun

buta (plural butas)

1. Alternative form of boteh.

Anagrams

• buat, Ṭūbā, tabu, Taub, abut, tuba, Tuba, batu, Batu

Acehnese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind; sightless

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈta/ [bʊˈtʌ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧ta

Noun

butá f

1. (mythology) lycanthropy

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Balinese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /butə/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ta

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta (Balinese script ᬩᬸᬢ)

1. blind

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Javanese bhūta, from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”).

Adjective

buta (Balinese script ᬪᬹᬢ)

1. wicked spirit

Further reading

• “buta”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Blagar

Numeral

buta

1. four

References

• Stokhof (1975)
• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List

Bunun

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Noun

buta

1. mote in the eye

References

• 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[2] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2026

Central Bikol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuta/ [ˈbu.ta]
• Hyphenation: bu‧ta

Adjective

búta (plural buruta, Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜆ)

1. blind; sightless

   Coordinate terms: pula, bungog

Derived terms

• buta-buta
• butahon
• mabuta
• magbuta
• makabuta
• pagkabuta

East Miraya Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless

French

Verb

buta

1. third-person singular past historic of buter

Anagrams

• tuba

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /búː.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [búː.tàː]

Noun

būtā̀ f (plural būtōcī, possessed form būtàr̃)

1. jug or ewer for holding water
2. kettle, teapot
3. gourd

References

• Paul Newman, A Hausa–English Dictionary (2007)

Higaonon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind; sightless

Hiligaynon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind

Noun

butá

1. blind

Etymology 2

Adjective

butâ

1. charged; full; replenished

Verb

bútà

1. to charge or replenish

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbutɒ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bu‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Adjective

buta (comparative butább, superlative legbutább)

1. stupid, silly, foolish, dumb

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buta

   Antonyms: okos, eszes, értelmes, intelligens

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	buta	buták
accusative	butát	butákat
dative	butának	butáknak
instrumental	butával	butákkal
causal-final	butáért	butákért
translative	butává	butákká
terminative	butáig	butákig
essive-formal	butaként	butákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	butában	butákban
superessive	bután	butákon
adessive	butánál	butáknál
illative	butába	butákba
sublative	butára	butákra
allative	butához	butákhoz
elative	butából	butákból
delative	butáról	butákról
ablative	butától	butáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	butáé	butáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	butáéi	butákéi

Derived terms

• butaság
• butácska
• bután
• butáskodik
• butít
• butul
• butus

Further reading

• buta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• buta in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Iban

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *buta(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.taʔ/

Adjective

buta

1. blind

Etymology 2

From English butter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ta/

Noun

buta

1. butter

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuta/ [ˈbu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: bu‧ta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay buta (“blind”), from Proto-Malayic *buta(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind
   1. unable to see, or only partially able to see
   2. (figurative) fail to recognize, acknowledge or perceive
   3. (figurative) without any prior knowledge

Synonyms

• tunanetra

Derived terms

Affixed tetms

• butakan
• kebutaan
• membuta

Compound Terms

• buta aksara
• buta ayam
• buta bahasa
• buta hati
• buta hukum
• buta huruf
• buta kayu
• buta malam
• buta politik
• buta siang

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦠ (buta, “giant”), from Old Javanese bhūta, from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”). Doublet of bota.

Noun

buta

1. (uncommon, dialectal) giant

   Synonym: raksasa

Alternative forms

• bota

Further reading

• “buta”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buta m (genitive singular buta, nominative plural butaí)

1. butt (of wine, etc.); cask

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buta m (genitive singular buta, nominative plural butaí)

1. butt; thick end, stock
2. (geography) butte
3. stocky person

Alternative forms

• muta

Derived terms

• buta féasóige (“short beard”)

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buta m (genitive singular buta, nominative plural butaí)

1. alternative form of babhta (“boot, something given to equalize an exchange; thing exchanged; addition”)

Declension

Declension of buta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative buta butaí vocative a bhuta a bhutaí genitive buta butaí dative buta butaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an buta na butaí genitive an bhuta na mbutaí dative leis an mbuta don bhuta leis na butaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of buta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
buta	bhuta	mbuta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “buta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

buta

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶた
2. Rōmaji transcription of ブタ

Javanese

Romanization

buta

1. romanization of ꦧꦸꦠ

Kituba

Noun

buta

1. weapon

Verb

buta

1. to give birth
2. to produce

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Common Bantu *-bʊ́ʊdia.

Verb

-búta

1. to ask

Libon Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless

Lingala

Verb

-buta (infinitive kobuta)

1. to climb

Luba-Kasai

Noun

buta

1. bow

Luba-Katanga

Noun

buta

1. bow

Malay

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *buta(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /butə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /buta/
• Rhymes: -utə, -tə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -ta

Adjective

buta (Jawi spelling بوتا, comparative lebih buta, superlative paling buta)

1. blind

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• pembuta [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
• kebutaan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• buta-buta [reduplication] (redup)
• sebuta [comparability] (se-)
• kebutaan [resemblance / passive] (ke-an)
• butakan [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• butai [causative (locative) benefactive] (-i)
• membutakan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
• membutai [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
• dibuta [patient focus] (di-)
• dibutakan [patient focus + causative benefactive] (di- + -kan)
• dibutai [patient focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (di- + -i)
• terbuta [agentless action] (teR-)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

• sebuta-buta

Descendants

• Indonesian: buta

References

• “buta”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN
• "buta" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Masbate Sorsogon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind; sightless

Masbatenyo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless

Northern Catanduanes Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless

Old Frisian

Conjunction

būta

1. unless

Old Polish

Etymology

Deverbal from bucić. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /buta/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /buta/

Noun

buta f

1. (attested in Greater Poland, Masovia) pride, haughtiness, arrogance, conceitedness
   • 1874-1891 [XV med.], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{[3], [4], [5]}, volume XXIV, page 360:

     Butha vel picha presumpcio

     [Buta vel pycha presumpcio]

   • 1880-1894 [XV ex.], Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[6], volume I, Gniezno, Warsaw, page 144:

     Podnyeszyenya albo bvthy vystrzegacz szya

     [Podniesienia albo buty wystrzegać się]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 62r:

     Iactantia id est arrogantia werffung oder berumung buthą chelplyvoscz

     [Iactantia id est arrogantia werffung oder berumung buta chełpliwość]

Descendants

• Polish: buta

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “buta”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017), “buta”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “buta”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “buta”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “buta”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 179
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “buta”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “buta”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese botar.

Verb

buta

1. to put, to place
2. to lay, to lay down

Phuthi

Etymology

From Common Bantu *-bʊ́ʊdia.

Verb

-búta

1. to ask

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ta/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ta/
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Podhale) IPA^(key): [ˈbu.ta]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: bu‧ta
• Homophone: Buta

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish buta. By surface analysis, deverbal from bucić.

Noun

buta f

1. pride, haughtiness, arrogance, conceitedness

   Synonyms: arogancja, hardość, wyniosłość

Declension

Declension of buta

	singular
nominative	buta
genitive	buty
dative	bucie
accusative	butę
instrumental	butą
locative	bucie
vocative	buto

Related terms

adjectives

• butny

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

buta m inan

1. genitive singular of but

Further reading

• buta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• buta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “buta”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Wiesław Morawski (14.06.2023), “BUTA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “buta”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “buta”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “buta”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 241
• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “buta”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 143

Rinconada Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind; sightless

Southern Catanduanes Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless

Sundanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ta/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ta

• Audio:

  (file)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮒ)

1. blind
   1. unable to see
   2. (figurative) fail to recognize, acknowledge or perceive

Derived terms

• poék mongkléng buta rajin
• tunggul buta

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦠ (buta, “giant”), from Old Javanese bhūta, from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”).

Noun

buta (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮒ)

1. giant

Further reading

• "buta" in Maman Sumantri; Atjep Djamaludin; Achmad Patoni; R.H. Moch. Koerdie; M.O. Koesman; Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985), Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

Swazi

Etymology

From Common Bantu *-bʊ́ʊdia.

Verb

-búta

1. to ask

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Tatar

Noun

buta

1. young of a camel

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Pronunciation

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /buta/ [bʊˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: bu‧ta

Adjective

buta (Sulat Sūg spelling بُتَ)

1. blind

Waray Sorsogon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

buta

1. blind; sightless

Waray-Waray

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind

Noun

butá

1. blind

West Miraya Bikol

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

Adjective

butá

1. blind; sightless