puta

See also: puța, puță, püta, púta, pútà, пута, and pụta

English

Etymology

From Spanish puta.

Noun

puta (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
   • 1988, February 12, “Lawrence Bommer”, in Extremeties/Talking With . . .‎^[1]:

     Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta."

   • 2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty, page 63:

     And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.

Anagrams

• APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, tapu

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Asturian

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

1. whore (prostitute)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) prostitute, whore, slut
2. mischievous

Synonyms

• bagassa, barjaula, barram, folla fembra, meuca, prostituta

Derived terms

• fill de puta
• putada
• putejar
• putenc
• puteria

 

Related terms

• putana

Further reading

• “puta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

puta

1. (derogatory, vulgar) a prostitute
2. (derogatory, vulgar) a slut
3. (derogatory, vulgar) a bitch

Synonyms

• (slut): bigaon, igat
• (slutty): aryat, bigaon, bigatla, igat

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French

Probably borrowed from Spanish puta. It appeared first in rap texts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) bitch
   • 2019, Ninho (lyrics and music), “Maman ne le sait pas”, performed by Ninho:

     Dans la ville j'revends le cannabis, maman ne le sait pas
     J’recompte mes potes, tout près des haramistes, le canon d'vant la glace
     Les pneus qui crissent, on est revenus tirer sur ces fils de puta
     Et j'sais qu’Iblis veut pas m'voir m'en tirer, faut qu'j'm'éloigne de tout ça

     In the city I'm selling the cannabis, mama don't know it
     I'm counting my buddies, close to the haramists, the gun in front of the ice
     The tyres squealing, we're back to shoot those sons of bitches
     And I know Iblis don't want me to get away with it, I gotta get away from it all

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) whore
3. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) slut

Synonyms

• pute

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese puta, probably from Vulgar Latin *putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa̝/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore

   Synonym: prostituta

2. (vulgar, derogatory) slut
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. 164;

     Iten Costança de Riba davia diso porlo dito juramento que feito avya que lle oyra diser que disera a dita Costança Vasques que era huna puta que posera as cornas ao marido

     Item, Constanza de Ribadavia said, by that oath that she had done, that she heard that said Constanza Vázquez was a slut that had put horns on her husband

3. (vulgar, derogatory) bitch

Derived terms

• fillo de puta

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar) evil; inmoral
2. (vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, freaking or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way, if the person is jealous

   Non puiden ir alá por causa dunha puta tormenta. ― I could not go there, because of a fucking storm.

   Tes unha puta sorte! ― You're so freaking lucky! / You're so freaking unlucky!

References

• “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2012.
• “puta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2016.
• “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “puta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “puta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian puttana, French putain, Spanish puta, and Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta (plural putas)

1. (vulgar) whore

Synonyms

• prostituta (“prostitute”)

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta

1. (slang) whore, slut, prostitute
2. (slang) bitch

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Latin

Etymology 1

Imperative of putō (“think, consider, prune, trim”).

Alternative forms

• putà (early modern)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Verb

putā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of putō (“think!”)

Etymology 2

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
• Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

Adverb

puta (not comparable)

1. suppose, for instance, namely

   Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exemplī grātiā

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• puta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]
• puta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
• putā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]
• putā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Adjective

puta

1. inflection of putus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

putā

1. ablative feminine singular of putus

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Lithuanian

Noun

puta f

1. foam

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

Noun

puta f

1. (female) turkey (bird)
2. turkey (meat)

Declension

Declension of puta

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	puta	puśe	puty
Genitive	puty	putowu	putow
Dative	puśe	putoma	putam
Accusative	putu	puśe	puty
Instrumental	putu	putoma	putami
Locative	puśe	putoma	putach

Synonyms

• truta
• turkawa

Etymology 2

Verb

puta

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References

• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “puta”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

Noun

puta

1. hole
2. anus

Verb

puta

1. to pass through and out
2. to graduate
3. to run off; to escape
4. to be born

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• puten

Noun

puta f sg

1. definite feminine singular of pute

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puta f sg

1. definite singular of pute

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

Noun

puta

1. (slang) (vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
2. (slang) (vulgar) bitch

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Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to Italian puttana (Old Spanish putaña; see putañear), which ultimately derives from Latin putus (“boy”). María Moliner dictionary (also Joan Coromines) states the most probable origin: from Vulgar Latin putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”). Note that this word appears in all Romance languages.

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) prostitute, whore, hooker
2. (vulgar, derogatory) slut (promiscuous woman)

Adjective

puta (plural, comparable)

1. feminine singular of puto
2. (vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) promiscuous
3. (only in some cities in Brazil, vulgar, also in Portugal) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, frigging or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way if the person is jealous

   Synonyms: baita, gaita

   Não pude ir lá porque tinha uma puta tempestade. ― I could not go there, because there was a huge fucking storm.

   Você tem uma puta sorte. ― You're so frigging lucky.

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

puta m sg

1. genitive singular of put

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.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Genitive singular form of pȗt (“road, path, way”), but used in plural constructions as an alternative form of the adverb pȗt (“time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǔːtaː/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Adverb

pútā (Cyrillic spelling пу́та̄)

1. times (in combination with cardinals greater than or equal to two, and other words indicating quantity, specifying how many times has the action been repeated)

   dva puta ― twice

   pet puta ― five times

   nekoliko puta ― several times

   mnogo puta ― many times

   idućeg puta ― next time

   ovog puta ― this time

   svakog puta ― every time

2. times (indicating multiplication)

   dva puta dva ― two times two

Related terms

• (adverbial sense): pȗt

Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûta/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

1. (regional) wooden dish or plate (usually made by a cooper)

Declension

Declension of puta

	singular	plural
nominative	puta	pute
genitive	pute	puta
dative	puti	putama
accusative	putu	pute
vocative	puto	pute
locative	puti	putama
instrumental	putom	putama

Noun

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)

1. inflection of puto:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to Italian puttana (Old Spanish putaña; see putañear), which ultimately derives from Latin putus (“boy”). María Moliner dictionary (also Joan Coromines) states the most probable origin: from Vulgar Latin putta, variant of puta, female form of puttus, putus (“boy”). Note that this word appears in all Romance languages.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia)

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Adjective

puta

1. feminine singular of puto

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute

   Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera

2. (derogatory, vulgar) bitch

   Synonym: zorra

Derived terms

• callarse como una puta
• casa de putas f
• chuloputas
• de puta madre
• hija de puta
• hijo de puta m
• hijoputa m
• ir de putas
• más puta que Rita
• me cago en la puta
• o follamos todos, o la puta al río
• putada f
• puta de quinta
• puta madre
• putañear (verb)
• puta que te parió
• puta que te parió
• puteada f
• putear (verb)
• puterío m
• putona
• putón berbenero
• puto m

 

Related terms

• putañear (verb)

See also

• dejada f
• golfa f
• mujerzuela f
• ramera f
• tu madre f

Descendants

• → Cebuano: puta
• → English: puta
• → Tagalog: puta

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -²ʉːta

Verb

puta (present putar, preterite putade, supine putat, imperative puta)

1. to pout (one's lips)

Conjugation

Conjugation of puta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	puta		—
Supine	putat		—
Imperative	puta		—
Imper. plural1	puten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	putar	putade	—	—
Ind. plural1	puta	putade	—	—
Subjunctive2	pute	putade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	putande
Past participle	putad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• shuta, fucha – minced oath
• pota

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Noun

puta

1. prostitute
2. (derogatory, vulgar) Term of abuse: bitch

Interjection

puta

1. (vulgar, derogatory, colloquial) Said in dismay or discontent.

Usage notes

The Commision on the Filipino Language treats this as the neutral word for a prostitute, but the English term is often used in its place due to its roots as a Spanish vulgarity.

See also

• putang ina
• putang ina mo

Anagrams

• tupa

Further reading

• “puta” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.