butas

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See also: būtas

English

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Noun

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butas

  1. plural of buta

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Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas

Noun

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butas

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

French

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Verb

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butas

  1. second-person singular past historic of buter

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Lithuanian

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 butas on Lithuanian Wikipedia
Butas

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰuH- ("to be") + -tós. Cognate with Latvian būda (hut, shack), Old Prussian buttan (house), Old Irish both (hut), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (building, hut).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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References

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  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

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  • butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Tagalog

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Noun

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butas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

  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

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Adjective

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butás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

  1. perforated; punctured; with hole or holes
    Synonym: busbos
  2. (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)

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Further reading

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  • butas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018