# kaput
## English
### Alternative forms

* kaputt

### Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”). Cognate to Dutch kapot. Doublet of capot and capote.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəˈpʊt/, /kəˈpuːt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: caput (sometimes)
* Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt

### Adjective

kaput (not comparable)
* (informal) Out of order; not working.
    Synonyms: broken; see also Thesaurus:out of order
    My car went kaput.
    His career is kaput.
    Her marriage went kaput.
** 1998, Saving Private Ryan (motion picture):German propaganda loudspeaker: […] The Statue of Liberty is KAPUT. Captain Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – huh, that's disconcerting.
** 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian‎:In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.

#### Derived terms

* kapoof
* kaputness

#### Translations
## Danish
### Etymology

From German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

### Adjective

kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)
* broken, dysfunctional

### References

* “kaput” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Finnish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt (“broken, out of order”), from French capot (“to be without a trick in the card game Piquet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑput/, [ˈkɑ̝put̪]
* Rhymes: -ɑput
* Hyphenation: ka‧put

### Adjective

kaput (not comparable) (informal)
* (predicative only) kaput

#### Declension

Indeclinable

### Adverb

kaput (not comparable) (colloquial)
* kaput

### Further reading

* “kaput”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

### Anagrams

* kupat, putka

## Gurindji
### Noun

kaput
* tomorrow

### References

* Gurindji language words from the 50 words project from the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɒput]
* Hyphenation: ka‧put

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

kaput
* (colloquial) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)
    Synonyms: kampec, vége

#### Adjective

kaput (not generally comparable, comparative kaputabb, superlative legkaputabb)
* (colloquial, predicatively) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)
    Synonyms: bekrepált, bedöglött, betojt, tönkrement, elromlott

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

kapu (“gate”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

#### Noun

kaput
* accusative singular of kapu
    Nyisd ki a kaput! ― Open the gate!

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

kaput (plural kaputok)
* (archaic) frock coat

##### Declension
### Further reading

* (kaput): kaput in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (frock coat): kaput in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Kavalan
### Noun

kaput
* friend

#### Synonyms

* luksan

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German kaputt, from French être capot, from Old French capote, from cape, from Late Latin cappa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈput/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Podegrodzie) IPA: /ˈka.put/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ut
* Syllabification: ka‧put

### Interjection

kaput
* kaput!

### Further reading

* kaput in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Karol Mátyás (1891) “kaput”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 323

## Sakizaya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ˈput/, [ka.ˈput]

### Noun

kaput
* companion; mate; partner

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cappotto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kǎpuːt/
* Hyphenation: ka‧put

### Noun

kàpūt m (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)
* coat

#### See also

* mantil
* ogrtač
* kabanica

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaput (“to tie or clasp together; to button”).

### Verb

kaput (Sundanese script ᮊᮕᮥᮒ᮪, active ngaput, passive dikaput)
* to sew

#### Derived terms

* kaputan (“seam; suture”)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote, ultimately from Latin caput (“head”). Doublet of şef.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.put/

### Noun

kaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)
* hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)