butas

See also: būtas

English

Noun

butas

  1. plural of buta

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas
  • IPA(key): /buˈtas/ [buˈtas]

Noun

butás

  1. act of setting free, setting loose
  2. act of freeing, releasing
  3. act of fumbling
    Synonyms: kapkap, kamas-kamas
  4. weaning
    Synonym: tari

Derived terms

  • butasan
  • butason
  • mabutasan
  • magbutas
  • makabutas

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas

Noun

butas

  1. a ritual offering to the spirits for a good harvest

French

Verb

butas

  1. second-person singular past historic of buter

Anagrams

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

  • butà (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰuH- ("to be") + -tós. Cognate with Latvian būda (hut, shack), Old Prussian buttan (house), Old Irish both (hut), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (building, hut).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbʊt̪ɐs̪]

Noun

bùtas m (plural bùtai) stress pattern 2

  1. flat, apartment
    Àš gyvenù vi̇́eno kam̃bario butè.
    I live in a one room apartment.
  2. (dialectal) house, cottage
  3. (Žemaitian) building, house

Declension

Declension of bùtas
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) bùtas bùtai
genitive (kilmininkas) bùto bùtų
dative (naudininkas) bùtui bùtams
accusative (galininkas) bùtą butùs
instrumental (įnagininkas) butù bùtais
locative (vietininkas) butè bùtuose
vocative (šauksmininkas) bùte bùtai

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “butas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
  2. ^ butà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 172 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  3. ^ butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Further reading

  • butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
  • butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈbutas/ [ˈbuː.t̪ɐs] (noun)
      • Rhymes: -utas
    • IPA(key): /buˈtas/ [bʊˈt̪as] (adjective)
      • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: bu‧tas

Noun

butas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

  1. hole; pit
  2. orifice; opening; mouth; outlet
  3. eye (of a needle)
  4. leak; crack
  5. act of boring a hole; perforation
    Synonym: pagbutas
  6. (figurative) loophole; means of escape
    Synonym: lusutan

Derived terms

Adjective

butás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

  1. perforated; punctured; with hole or holes
    Synonym: busbos
  2. (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • butas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tausug

Pronunciation

  • (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA(key): /butas/ [bʊˈt̪as]
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: bu‧tas

Verb

butas (Sulat Sūg spelling بُتَسْ)

  1. (transitive) to separate, part, cease to associate with, wean (a child or young animal).

Derived terms