put

See also: PUT, pût, pūt, and puț

English

Wikipedia

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”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- ‎(“to shoot, sprout”). 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”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit बुन्द ‎(bundá, “arrow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͝ot, IPA^(key): /pʊt/

• Audio - 'to put' (UK)

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• 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. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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^[1]:

     ‘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.

   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.‎

   • Hare

     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.
   • John Dryden

     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.
   • Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13

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

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

    to put a question; to put a case

    • Berkeley

      Put the perception and you put the mind.

    • Milton

      These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.

    • 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

      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.
    • Jonathan Swift

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.

    • Sir Walter Scott

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

    • Milton

      Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.

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

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

Derived terms

Terms derived from put (verb)

put about put across put aside put a sock in it put away put back put the brakes on put by put down put end put the fear of God into put forth put forward put in put in place put in practice put into put off

put on put on airs put on a pedestal put one over put one's cards on the table put one's house in order put one's money where one's mouth is put one's name in the hat put out put out feelers put over put paid to put someone in mind of put someone up to something put through

put to put together put to rest put to sea put two and two together put under put-up (adj.) put up put up with put upon put with put wise put words in someone's mouth putable puttable input output

Translations

to place something somewhere

• Ancient Greek: τίθημι ‎(títhēmi)
• Arabic: وَضَعَ (ar) ‎(waḍaʿa) imperfect: يَضَعُ ‎(yaḍaʿu)

  Moroccan Arabic: دار ‎(dær)

• Aragonese: meter (an)
• Armenian: դնել (hy) ‎(dnel)
• Belarusian: кла́сці (be) ‎(klásci)
• Bulgarian: слагам (bg) ‎(slagam)
• Burmese: ထား (my) ‎(hta:)
• Catalan: posar (ca), ficar (ca), metre (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Cornish: gorra
• Czech: dát (cs), umístit (cs)
• Dalmatian: metar, miater
• Dutch: zetten (nl), plaatsen (nl), leggen (nl), doen (nl), stellen (nl)
• Esperanto: meti
• Finnish: panna (fi), laittaa (fi), asettaa (fi)
• French: placer (fr), mettre (fr), poser (fr)
• Friulian: meti
• German: setzen (de), stellen (de), legen (de), tun (de)
• Greek: θέτω (el) ‎(théto), βάζω (el) ‎(vázo)
• Hebrew: שים ‎(shim)
• Hindi: रखना (hi) ‎(rakhnā)
• Hungarian: tesz (hu), rak (hu), helyez (hu)
• Interlingua: poner
• Irish: cuir

  Old Irish: fo·ceird

• Istriot: meti
• Italian: mettere (it), porre (it)
• Japanese: 置く (ja) ‎(おく, oku), 据える (ja) ‎(sueru)
• Norman: mettre
• Khmer: ដាក់ (km) ‎(dak)
• Korean: 두다 (ko) ‎(duda), 놓다 (ko) ‎(nota)
• Ladin: meter
• Lao: ວາງ ‎(wāng)
• Latin: pōnō (la)
• Latvian: likt (lv)

• Macedonian: става ‎(stava)
• Malay: letak
• Manx: cur
• Maori: panga, whakatakoto
• Neapolitan: mette
• Norwegian: sette (no)
• Pashto: اچول (ps) ‎(ačawəl)
• Persian: گذاشتن (fa) ‎(gozâštan)
• Polish: kłaść (pl)
• 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)
• 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 (imperfective), stajiś (perfective)

• Spanish: poner (es), colocar (es), situar (es)
• Swedish: sätta (sv), ställa (sv), lägga (sv), he (sv), placera (sv)
• Thai: วาง (th) ‎(waang)
• Tok Pisin: putim
• Turkish: koymak (tr)
• Ukrainian: кла́сти ‎(klásty)
• Urdu: رکھنا ‎(rakhnā)
• Venetian: métar, meter, méter, métare
• Vietnamese: để (vi), đặt (vi)
• Waray-Waray: i-butang, ig-butang
• Walloon: mete (wa), bouter (wa)
• Welsh: dodi (cy), gosod (cy)

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

• Ancient Greek: τίθημι ‎(títhēmi)
• Czech: dát (cs)
• Finnish: panna (fi)
• Hebrew: שים ‎(shim)
• Macedonian: доведува ‎(doveduva), става ‎(stava)

• Portuguese: deixar (pt)
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir
• Serbo-Croatian: dovesti (sh), staviti (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: póraś impf

to exercise a put option

• Finnish: käyttää (fi) put-optio (fi)

to express something in a certain manner

• Czech: postavit (cs)
• Dutch: stellen (nl), brengen (nl)
• Finnish: esittää (fi)
• French: mettre (fr)
• Italian: porre (it), mettere (it)

• 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

• Czech: vrhnout
• Finnish: työntää (fi)
• Greek: ρίχνω (el) ‎(ríchno)

• Pashto: اچول (ps) ‎(ačawəl)
• Scottish Gaelic: tilg

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} vë
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} posar, ^{(please verify)} pondre
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} posaditi, ^{(please verify)} staviti, ^{(please verify)} položiti
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} pozar
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} meletakkan, ^{(please verify)} menaruh

• Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} دانان (ku)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} pune
• Sindhi: ^{(please verify)} گھيڙڻ ‎(gherrann), ^{(please verify)} گھيڙائِڻ ‎(gherraainn)
• Swedish: lägga (to put something flat) (1), ställa (to put something upright) (1), placera (1,2), göra iordning (2)

See also

putten

Noun

put ‎(plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

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

   • Johnson's Cyc.

     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

   • L'Estrange

     The stag's was a forc'd put, and a chance rather than a choice.

4. An old card game.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Young to this entry?)

See also

• Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Stock option
• call
• option

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

Noun

put ‎(plural puts)

1. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
   • Bramston

     Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.

   • F. Harrison

     What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 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.

Etymology 3

Old French pute.

Noun

put ‎(plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: nothing · God · three · #164: put · once · new · years

Anagrams

• tup
• UTP

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch put.

Noun

put ‎(plural putte)

1. well; pit

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ut

Verb

put

1. third-person singular present indicative form of pudir
2. second-person singular imperative form of pudir

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʏt
• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏt/

Etymology

From Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-Germanic *putjaz, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put m ‎(plural putten, diminutive putje n)

1. pit, well

Derived terms

• waterput

Verb

put

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
2. imperative of putten

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Finnish

Interjection

put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

Verb

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

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Kalasha

Noun

put

1. Alternative spelling of putr

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Latvian

Verb

put

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of putēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of putēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of putēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of putēt

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Lojban

Rafsi

put

1. rafsi of sputu.

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Romanian

Verb

put

1. first-person singular present tense form of puți.
2. first-person singular subjunctive form of puți.
3. third-person plural present tense form of puți.

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰuʰt̪/

Verb

put ‎(past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

1. push, shove
2. jostle
3. press

Derived terms

• put ann

Noun

put m ‎(genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)
2. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
3. corpulent person; any bulging thing
4. shovelful, sod, spadeful
5. (medicine) bruised swelling

Mutation

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

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.
Cognate with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник ‎(spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

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

   teret je na putu — cargo is on the way

   miči mi se s puta! — get out of my way!

   najkraći put do bolnice — the shortest way to the hospital

   na pola puta do škole — halfway to the school

3. path

   krčiti put — to clear a path

   put do usp(j)eha — the path to success

4. trip, journey

   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

   sudskim putem — by legal means

   službenim/zvaničnim putem — through official channels

   Ml(ij)ečni put — Milky Way

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

Etymology 2

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	puti	putima

Etymology 3

From pȗt ‎(“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник ‎(spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

Preposition

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. (with genitive) to, towards

   put Sarajeva — towards Sarajevo

   put škole — to school

   vozimo se put sela — we are driving towards the village

   krenuo sam put grada — I went towards the city

Etymology 4

From pȗt ‎(“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from Russian спу́тник ‎(spútnik, “fellow traveller”).

Alternative forms

• (genitive plural) pútā

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

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English foot.

Noun

put

1. foot