kaput

• kaputt

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.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈpʊt/, /kəˈpuːt/

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• Homophone: caput (sometimes)
• Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt

kaput (not comparable)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

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

kaput (neuter kaput, plural and definite singular attributive kaput)

1. broken, dysfunctional

• “kaput” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑput/, [ˈkɑ̝put̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑput
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧put
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧put

kaput (not comparable) (informal)

1. (predicative only) kaput

Indeclinable

kaput (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. kaput

• “kaput”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• kupat, putka

kaput

1. tomorrow

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒput]
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

kaput

1. (colloquial) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)

   Synonyms: kampec, konyec, vége

kaput (not generally comparable, comparative kaputabb, superlative legkaputabb)

1. (colloquial, predicatively) kaput, busted (out of order; not working; broken; tired)

   Synonyms: bekrepált, bedöglött, betojt, tönkrement, elromlott

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

kaput

1. accusative singular of kapu

   Nyisd ki a kaput! ― Open the gate!

kaput (plural kaputok)

1. (archaic) frock coat

• (kaput): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (frock coat): kaput in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

kaput

1. friend

• luksan

• Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006) Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)‎^[3], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 117

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

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• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: ka‧put

kaput

1. kaput!

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈput/, [ka.ˈput]

kaput

1. companion; mate; partner

Borrowed from Italian cappotto.

• IPA^(key): /kǎpuːt/
• Hyphenation: ka‧put

kàpūt m inan (Cyrillic spelling ка̀пӯт)

1. coat

• mantil
• ogrtač
• kabanica

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

kaput (Sundanese script ᮊᮕᮥᮒ᮪, active ngaput, passive dikaput)

1. to sew

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاپوت (kaput), from French capote, ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput. Doublet of şef.

• IPA^(key): /ka.put/

kaput (definite accusative kaputu, plural kaputlar)

1. hood, bonnet (hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle)