butte

See also: Butte and butté

English

Buttes in Monument Valley

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjuːt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: beaut

Noun

butte (plural buttes)

1. (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

   Coordinate term: mesa

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

Derived terms

• Box Butte County
• Butte County
• Butte Creek
• Butte Creek Canyon
• Butte Falls
• Butte Meadows
• Butte Valley

Translations

hill

• Arabic: شاهد صخري‎
• Azerbaijani: qalıq
• Danish: butte (da) c
• Finnish: butte
• French: butte (fr) f
• German: Härtling (de) m
• Irish: buta m
• Italian: butte f, tacco (it) m
• Kabuverdianu: rubon

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Portuguese: planalto (pt) m
• Russian: холм с крутыми склонами (xolm s krutymi sklonami), останец (ru) m (ostanec)
• Sardinian: tacchixeddu m, taccu m
• Spanish: cuello volcánico m, otero (es) m, páramo (es) m
• Thai: เนินยอดป้าน
• Turkish: tanık tepe (tr)

Further reading

• butte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Adjective

butte

1. definite of but
2. plural of but

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French

Etymology

Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byt/

• Audio

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Noun

butte f (plural buttes)

1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll

   Synonyms: colline, tertre

2. heap

   Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.

   Make a heap around the potato plants.

Descendants

• → English: butte

Further reading

• “butte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt