putsch

See also: Putsch

English

WOTD – 28 January 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʊt͡ʃ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /pʉt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Noun

putsch (plural putsches)

1. A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

   Synonyms: coup, coup d'état

   Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.

   • 2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.

     "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:putsch.

Derived terms

• putscher
• putschism
• putschist

Translations

a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government

• Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب (ar) m (inqilāb)
• Armenian: պուտչ (hy) (putčʻ), խռովարարություն (hy) (xṙovararutʻyun)
• Asturian: putsch m, golpe d'estáu m, alzamientu m
• Belarusian: путч m (putč), пераваро́т m (pjeravarót)
• Bulgarian: пуч m (puč)
• Catalan: cop d'estat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叛亂 / 叛乱 (zh) (pànluàn), 政變 / 政变 (zh) (zhèngbiàn)

• Czech: puč (cs) m
• Esperanto: puĉo, ŝtatrenverso
• Estonian: putš
• Finnish: vallankaappaus (fi)
• French: coup d'État (fr) m, putsch (fr) m
• Georgian: პუტჩი (ṗuṭči)
• German: Putsch (de) m
• Greek: πραξικόπημα (el) n (praxikópima)
• Hebrew: פּוּטְשׁ (he) m (putsh)
• Hungarian: puccs (hu)
• Latvian: pučs m
• Lithuanian: pučas m
• Macedonian: пуч m (puč)
• Māori: upokotaua
• Polish: pucz (pl) m
• Portuguese: putsch (pt) m, golpe de estado (pt) m, golpe (pt) m
• Romanian: puci (ro) n, lovitură de stat (ro) f
• Russian: путч (ru) m (putč), переворо́т (ru) m (perevorót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏вра̄т m, пу̏ч m, др̀жа̄внӣ у̏да̄р m

  Latin: prȅvrāt (sh) m, pȕč (sh) m, dr̀žāvnī ȕdār m

• Slovak: puč m
• Slovene: puč m
• Spanish: putsch, alzamiento, pronunciamiento (es), golpe (es), militarada f
• Swedish: statskupp (sv) c
• Turkish: darbe (tr)
• Ukrainian: путч m (putč), переворо́т m (perevorót)
• Volapük: luvolut
• Yiddish: ּפּוטש m

Anagrams

• schtup

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Putsch (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: putsch

Noun

putsch m (plural putschen, no diminutive)

1. a putsch, a coup d'état

   Synonyms: coup, staatsgreep

Derived terms

• putschist

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

putsch m (plural putschs)

1. putsch; military coup d'état

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Alemannic German Putsch.

Noun

putsch m (plural putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

Further reading

• “putsch”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “putsch”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈput͡ʃ/ [ˈput͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -utʃ

Noun

putsch m (plural putsch or putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.