puta

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

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puta (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
   • 1988 February 12, Lawrence Bommer, “Extremeties/Talking With . . .”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     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.

Borrowed from Dzongkha པུ་ཏ (pu ta).

puta (uncountable)

1. A Bhutanese noodle dish.
   • 2024, Bradley Mayhew, Lindsay Fegent-Brown, Galey Tenzin, Bhutan‎^[3], Lonely Planet, →ISBN:

     At high altitudes wheat and buckwheat are the staples. In Bumthang, khule (buckwheat pancakes) and puta (buckwheat noodles) replace rice as the foundation of many meals. Dessert is most often a modest presentation of fruit -apple, banana, pineapple or orange, depending on the season.

• APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, tapu

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: pu‧ta

puta f (plural putes)

1. whore (prostitute)

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

• IPA^(key): /puta/ [pu.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta, -a
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

puta ?

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore, prostitute

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”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpu.ta]

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puta f (plural putes)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut

   Synonyms: meuca, prostituta, bagassa, barjaula, barram, folla fembra

• putana

puta

1. (colloquial, vulgar) fucking, goddamn, used with feminine nouns.

   Synonyms: fotut, maleït, refotut

   La puta bicicleta dels collons.

   The fucking bike.

   Ni puta idea.

   No fucking idea.

puta

1. (vulgar) fucking, goddamn, damn

• “puta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

púta (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

1. (vulgar) prostitute
2. (derogatory, vulgar) slut; bitch

   Synonyms: bigaon, igat

Inherited from Spanish puta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.t̪a]
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

puta

1. (vulgar) prostitute
2. (vulgar) bitch (obnoxious person)

• → Tausug: puta

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

• IPA^(key): /pu.ta/

puta f (plural putas)

1. (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 ça

     In 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

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

• pute

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.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

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

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!

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “puta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “puta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

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

puta (plural putas)

1. (vulgar) whore

• prostituta (“prostitute”)

From Portuguese puta.

puta

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

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

• putà (early modern)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.taː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ta]

putā

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

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ta]
• Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

puta (not comparable)

1. suppose, for instance, namely

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

• puta:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ta]
• putā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.taː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ta]

puta

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

putā

1. ablative feminine singular of putus

puta f

1. foam

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

puta f

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

• truta
• turkawa

puta

1. (dialectal) alternative form of pyta

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

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpʉtɐ]

puta (passive putaina)

1. to come out or come forth from some location
2. to emerge, to appear into sight
3. to rise (of celestial bodies)

   Synonyms: whiti, kōwhiti, kōhiti, kōpure

4. to pass through and out
5. to graduate
6. to run off; to escape
7. (intransitive) to be born (of man)

   Synonym: whānaua

puta

1. any hole, orifice or perforation
   1. anus

      Synonyms: nono, kōtore, ene

   2. vagina

      Synonyms: nono, taiawa

   3. foramen

Of sense 'to come out'

Of sense 'hole'

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “puta”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 366–7
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “puta”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[4], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

• puten

puta f sg

1. definite feminine singular of pute

puta f sg

1. definite singular of pute

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.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

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puta f (plural putas)

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

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.

puta f

1. 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 traydor

     They shall call you son of a bitch, but not son of a traitor.

• Spanish: puta

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

puta (vulgar, slang)

1. whore, slut, prostitute
2. bitch

• p*ta (censored)

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.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

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• Rhymes: -utɐ
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

puta

1. feminine singular of puto

puta (feminine-only, feminine plural putas)

1. (vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) slutty

   Synonym: (Portugal) badalhoca

puta m or f (plural putas)

1. (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.

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.

puta f (plural putas)(vulgar, derogatory)

1. whore, hooker

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta

2. slut (promiscuous woman)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia

3. bitch (a term of contempt towards women)

• → Saramaccan: púta

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

puta m sg

1. genitive singular of put

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

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

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

• (adverbial sense): pȗt

• “puta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

From Old High German puttina.

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

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

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

• “puta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)

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

• IPA^(key): /puta/, [ˈputa]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: pu‧ta

puta

1. genitive singular of puto

• IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: pu‧ta

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.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

puta f (plural putas) (derogatory, vulgar)

1. whore, slut, prostitute

   Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera, perra, (obsolete) putaña

2. bitch

   Synonyms: zorra, perra

puta

1. (vulgar) feminine singular of puto

Clipping of puta madre.

puta

1. (Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, vulgar, colloquial) fuck! shit!

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

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

• “puta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “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

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

• Rhymes: -²ʉːta

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

1. to pout (one's lips)

   puta med läpparna

   pout one's lips

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

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

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

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

1. 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, parausan, (slang) donat, balihantot

2. (vulgar, offensive, derogatory) term of abuse: bitch

• 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.

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

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

• “puta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• tupa, upat, Tupa

IPA^(key): /puˈta/

puta

1. dative singular of put