# puta
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish puta.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

puta (uncountable)
* (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
** 1988 February 12, Lawrence Bommer, “Extremeties/Talking With . . .”, in Chicago Reader‎: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

## Asturian
### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Catalan puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Noun

puta f (plural putes)
* whore (prostitute)

## Catalan
### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

puta f (plural putes)
* (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut
* 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.

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pu‧ta

### Noun

puta
* (vulgar) prostitute
* (derogatory, vulgar) slut; bitch

#### Synonyms

* (slut): bigaon, igat

## Chavacano
### Etymology

From Spanish puta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.t̪a]
* Hyphenation: pu‧ta

### Noun

puta
* (vulgar) prostitute
* (vulgar) bitch (obnoxious person)

#### Descendants

* → Tausug: puta

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.ta/

### Noun

puta f (plural putas)
* (slang, derogatory, vulgar) bitch
** 2019, Ninho, “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 çaIn the city I'm selling cannabis, mama don't know it I'm counting my buddies, close to the sinners, the gun in front of the mirror 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
* (slang, derogatory, vulgar) whore
* (slang, derogatory, vulgar) slut

#### Synonyms

* pute

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese puta, probably from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, variant of *puta, female form of *puttus, putus (“boy”), which is however a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputa̝/

### Noun

puta f (plural putas)
* (vulgar, derogatory) whore
    Synonym: prostituta
* (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 maridoItem, 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
* (vulgar, derogatory) bitch

#### Derived terms

* fillo de puta

### Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)
* (vulgar) evil; inmoral
* (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

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “puta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “puta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puta”, 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), “puta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Interlingua
### Etymology

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

### Noun

puta (plural putas)
* (vulgar) whore

#### Synonyms

* prostituta (“prostitute”)

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese puta.

### Noun

puta
* (slang) whore, slut, prostitute
* (slang) bitch

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* putà (early modern)

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

#### Verb

putā
* second-person singular present active imperative of putō (“think!”)

### Etymology 2

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
* Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

#### Adverb

puta (not comparable)
* suppose, for instance, namely
    Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exemplī grātiā

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* puta: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]
* puta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
* putā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]
* putā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

#### Adjective

puta
* inflection of putus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Adjective

putā
* ablative feminine singular of putus

## Lithuanian
### Noun

puta f
* foam

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputa/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

#### Noun

puta f
* (female) turkey (bird)
* turkey (meat)

##### Synonyms

* truta
* turkawa

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

puta
* (dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

### References

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

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

### Noun

puta
* hole
* anus

### Verb

puta
* to pass through and out
* to graduate
* to run off; to escape
* to be born

#### Derived terms

* puta noa (“across”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* puten

### Noun

puta f sg
* definite feminine singular of pute

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

puta f sg
* definite singular of pute

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Noun

puta f (plural putas)
* (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute, bitch

#### Derived terms

* filh de puta

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.

### Noun

puta f
* whore
    Synonym: putaña
** by 1325, Anonymous, Crónica de veinte Reyes , (ed. by Terrence A. Mannetter, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):llamar vos han fijo de puta, mas non fijo de traydorThey shall call you son of a bitch, but not son of a traitor.

#### Descendants

* Spanish: puta

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

### Noun

puta
* (vulgar, slang) whore, slut, prostitute
* (vulgar, slang) bitch

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* p*ta (censored)

### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.tɐ/
* Audio (Portugal, Porto):(file)
* Audio (Portugal):(file)

### Adjective

puta
* feminine singular of puto

### Adjective

puta (feminine-only, feminine plural putas)
* (vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) slutty
    Synonym: (Portugal) badalhoca

### Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)
* (Portugal and in some cities in Brazil, vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking
    Synonyms: baita, merda
    Não pude ir lá porque estava uma puta de tempestade. ― I could not go there, because there was a huge fucking storm.
    Você tem uma puta de sorte. ― You're so fucking lucky.

#### Usage notes

Unlike merda, which can qualify both masculine and feminine words, puta can only be used with feminine words, e.g. one can say both a merda do sol (the fucking sun) and a merda da lua (the fucking moon), but only a puta da lua and not *a puta do sol.

### Noun

puta f (plural putas)
* (vulgar, derogatory) whore, hooker
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
* (vulgar, derogatory) slut (promiscuous woman)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
* (vulgar, derogatory) bitch (a term of contempt towards women)

#### Descendants

* → Saramaccan: púta

### References

* ↑ Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

puta m sg
* genitive singular of put

### Mutation

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

## 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: /pǔːtaː/
* Hyphenation: pu‧ta

#### Adverb

pútā (Cyrillic spelling пу́та̄)
* 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
* times (indicating multiplication)
    dva puta dva ― two times two

##### Related terms

* (adverbial sense): pȗt

### Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pûta/
* Hyphenation: pu‧ta

#### Noun

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)
* (regional) wooden dish or plate (usually made by a cooper)

##### Declension
#### Noun

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)
* inflection of puto:
** genitive singular
** nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines. Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: pu‧ta

### Noun

puta f (plural putas)
* (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
    Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera
* (derogatory, vulgar) bitch
    Synonym: zorra

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* putañear (verb)

### Adjective

puta
* feminine singular of puto

### Descendants

* > Chavacano: puta (inherited)
* → Cebuano: puta
* → English: puta
* → Tagalog: puta

### See also

* dejada f
* golfa f
* mujerzuela f
* ramera f
* tu madre f

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “puta”, 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
* “puta”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swedish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -²ʉːta

### Verb

puta (present putar, preterite putade, supine putat, imperative puta)
* to pout (one's lips)
    puta med läpparnapout one's lips

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* depota, shuta, fucha, pucha, putsa, putik, putek, putris, putragis, putspa — minced oath
* pota — colloquial

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈputa/ [ˈpuː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: pu‧ta

### Noun

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)
* prostitute
    Synonyms: pokpok, hostes, GRO, patutot, kalapati, kalapating mababa ang lipad, ibong mababa ang lipad, kaladkarin, (Batangas, Mindoro) pagerper, belyas, pampam, prosti, prostituta, balihanda, nagbebenta ng laman, balihantot
* (derogatory, vulgar) term of abuse: bitch

#### Usage notes

* The Commission 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.

#### Derived terms

* amputa
* anak ng puta
* putang ina
* putang ina mo

#### See also

* japayuki
* kabaretista

### Interjection

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)
* (vulgar, derogatory, colloquial) said in dismay or discontent.

#### See also

* punyeta

### Further reading

* “puta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* tupa, upat, Tupa

## Turkish
### Noun

puta
* dative singular of put