# pota
## Asturian
### Etymology

Probably from Old French pot. Further etymology is obscure; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpota/ [ˈpo.t̪a]

### Noun

pota f (plural potes)
* pot
    Synonym: cacíu
    En pota que fierve nun toparás mosques (proverb)
       In a boiling pot you won't find flies (Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth smell of smoke)

#### Related terms

* pote

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “bote I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *botu (“young of camel”). Cognate with Tatar and Bashkir бута (buta), Kyrgyz бото (boto), Kazakh бота (bota).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [poˈtɑ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: po‧ta

### Noun

pota (definite accusative potanı, plural potalar)
* piglet
    Synonym: çoşqa
* bear cub

#### Declension
### See also

* ayı (“bear”)
* donuz (“pig”)

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*botu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pauta. First attested in 1371.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɔ.ta]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pota f (plural potes)
* paw, foot (of an animal)
    Synonym: peu
    caminar a quatre potes ― to walk on all fours
* leg (of a table)
    Synonym: petge
    una taula de quatre potes ― a table with four legs

#### Derived terms

* capipota
* patum
* pota de cavall
* pota de conill
* pota de gall
* pota de gat
* pota de lleó
* potada
* potera
* potollar

### References

* “pota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “pota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “pota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Probably from Old French pot. Further etymology is obscure; perhaps from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔtɐ]

### Noun

pota f (plural potas)
* pot, cooking pot
    Synonym: ola
    díxolle a pota ao caldeiro: "Achégate aló que me luxas!" (proverb)
       the pot told the cauldron: "Go away, you're going to mess me up!" (the pot calling the kettle black)
* flying squid (Todarodes sagittatus)
    Synonyms: choupa, voador

#### Related terms

* pote

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “bote I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse pota (“to put, stick”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab, push”). More at put.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʰɔːta/
* Rhymes: -ɔːta

### Verb

pota (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative potaði, supine potað)
* to poke

#### Conjugation
## Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English potte, from Old English pott (“a pot”), from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpˠɔt̪ˠə/

### Noun

pota m (genitive singular pota, nominative plural potaí)
* pot (vessel for cooking or storing food)
    Synonym: corcán
* (nautical) tub
    Synonym: leastar

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
pota
potaí
vocative
a phota
a photaí
genitive
pota
potaí
dative
pota
potaí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an pota
na potaí
genitive
an phota
na bpotaí
dative
leis an bpota don phota
leis na potaí :

#### Derived terms

* gliúphota
* poitín
* potaire
* pota simléir

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pota”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pota”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “pota”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “pota”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Verb

pota
* inflection of potare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* opta, pato-, topa

## Kankanaey
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Kankanaey) IPA: /ˈpota/ [ˈpoː.tʌ]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: po‧ta

### Noun

póta
* act of cutting, slashing, gashing (of flesh or meat)

#### Derived terms

* potaen

### References

* Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “póta”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎, Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 369

## Kapampangan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpotə/ [ˈpoː.tə]
* Hyphenation: po‧ta

### Adverb

póta
* later; shortly
    Synonym: pinandit
* maybe; probably
    Synonyms: mekad, siguru, baka

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *pota; compare Apalaí pota, Wayana pota, Waiwai pota, Pemon pota, Yao (South America) hopataly.

### Pronunciation

* (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA: [poːta]
* (East Suriname) IPA: [poʔta]

### Noun

pota (possessed potary)
* mouth
* mouth area, snout

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 351
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “pota”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 386; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 377

## Latin
### Verb

pōtā
* second-person singular present active imperative of pōtō

## Lingala
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *pʊ́t.

### Verb

pota
* to run

## Maori
### Noun

pota
* sample

## Mbyá Guaraní
### Suffix

pota
* attaches to imperative to emphasize it
    Eikuaa pota ke.Be careful to know.

### Verb

pota
* to want, to desire

#### Conjugation
## Old Navarro-Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Attested in the fifteenth century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpota/

### Noun

pota f
* paw

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pauta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 77

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
* Hyphenation: po‧ta

### Noun

pota f (plural potas)
* Humboldt squid, giant squid

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *pota. Cognates include Samoan pota and Maori pota.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpo.ta/
* Hyphenation: po‧ta

### Noun

pota
* lettuce

### References

* Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 29

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

pota (Cyrillic spelling пота)
* genitive singular of pot

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpota/ [ˈpo.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: po‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan pota (“paw”).

#### Noun

pota f (plural potas)
* cuttlefish

##### Derived terms

* echar la pota
* pota común

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pota
* inflection of potar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-pota (infinitive kupota)
* to lose
* to ruin
* to distort

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -pota :
| Positive present | -napota |
| Subjunctive | -pote |
| Negative | -poti |
| Imperative singular | pota |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupota |
| Negative | kutopota |
Imperatives :
| Singular | pota |
| Plural | poteni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupota |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipota |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupota |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapota |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapota |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipote |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepota |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepota |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipota |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipota |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepota |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapota |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japota |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipota |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopota |
| Consecutive | kapota / positive subject concord + -kapota |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapote |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -potea
** Causative: -potesha
** Passive: -potewa
** Reciprocal: -potana (“scattered, lose each other”)
** Stative: -poteka

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpota/ [ˈpoː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: po‧ta

### Noun

pota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ) (colloquial)
* Alternative form of puta: term of abuse

### Interjection

pota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ) (colloquial)
* Alternative form of puta

## Zou
### Noun

pota
* basket

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf