putu

See also: puṯu

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

Pronunciation

Noun

putu (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 328:
      Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.
    • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 242:
      Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).
  • putu pap

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈputu/, [ˈput̪u]
  • Rhymes: -utu
  • Syllabification(key): pu‧tu

Noun

putu

  1. (dialectal) dust, dirt

Declension
Inflection of putu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation)
nominative putu pudut
genitive pudun putujen
partitive putua putuja
illative putuun putuihin
singular plural
nominative putu pudut
accusative nom. putu pudut
gen. pudun
genitive pudun putujen
partitive putua putuja
inessive pudussa puduissa
elative pudusta puduista
illative putuun putuihin
adessive pudulla puduilla
ablative pudulta puduilta
allative pudulle puduille
essive putuna putuina
translative puduksi puduiksi
instructive — puduin
abessive pudutta puduitta
comitative — putuineen
Possessive forms of putu (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person putuni putumme
2nd person putusi putunne
3rd person putunsa

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *putu(-) (“hole through something, to pierce, has a hole”), from Proto-Eskimo *putru(-) (“hole, to pierce”). Compare putuvoq (“is perforated”), and pussorpoq (“has a hole worn in it”).

Noun

putu (plural putut)

  1. hole

Declension
Declension of putu
singular plural
absolutive putu putut
ergative putup putut
allative putumut putunut
ablative putumit putunit
prosecutive putukkut putunit
locative putumi putuni
instrumental putumik putunik
equative pututut pututut

Further reading

Hopi

Adjective

putu

  1. heavy (possessing great weight)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay putu, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “puttu”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈputu]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧tu

Noun

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

  1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈputu/

Noun

putu

  1. accusative singular of puta
  2. instrumental singular of puta

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [puˈtu]

Verb

putu

  1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

putu m

  1. dative/locative singular of put

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)

  1. dative/locative singular of puto

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)

  1. accusative singular of puta

Tausug

Noun

putu

  1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.
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