put

See also PUT, puț, and pût

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English *putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”), Sanskrit  (bunda, “arrow”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͝ot, IPA: /pʊt/, X-SAMPA: /pUt/

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• Rhymes: -ʊt

Verb

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle put)

1. To place something somewhere

   She put her books on the table.

2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition

   Put your horse in order!

   He is putting all his energy into this one task.

   She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.

3. (finance) To exercise a put option

   He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.

4. To express something in a certain manner

   When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.

5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball as a sport. See shot put.

Derived terms

Terms derived from put (verb)

put about put across put aside put away put back put by put down put end put forth put forward put in put in place put in practice put into put off

put on put on airs put on a pedestal put one over put one's cards on the table put one's money where one's mouth is put one's name in the hat put out put out feelers put over put paid to put someone in mind of put through put to put together

put to rest put two and two together put under put up put up with put upon put with put wise put words in someone's mouth putable puttable input output

Translations

to place something somewhere

• Ancient Greek: τίθημι (tithēmi)
• Arabic: وضع (ar) (wáḍaʿa) imperfect: يضع (ar) (yáḍaʿu)
• Armenian: դնել (hy) (dnel)
• Belarusian: класці (be) (klásci)
• Bulgarian: слагам (bg) (slagam)
• Burmese: ထား (my) (hta:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放 (cmn) (fàng), 置 (cmn) (zhì), 放置 (cmn) (fàngzhì)

• Czech: dát (cs), umístit (cs)
• Dutch: zetten (nl), plaatsen (nl), leggen (nl), doen (nl), stellen (nl)
• Esperanto: meti (eo)
• Finnish: panna (fi), laittaa (fi), asettaa (fi)
• French: placer (fr), mettre (fr), poser (fr)
• German: setzen (de), stellen (de), legen (de), tun (de)
• Greek: θέτω (el) (théto), βάζω (el) (vazo)
• Hindi: रखना (hi) (rakhnā)
• Interlingua: poner (ia)
• Irish: cuir (ga)
• Italian: mettere (it), porre (it)
• Japanese: 置く (ja) (おく, oku), 据える (ja) (sueru)
• Jèrriais: mettre
• Khmer: ដាក់ (km) (dak)
• Korean: 두다 (ko) (duda)
• Lao: ວາງ (lo) (waang)
• Latin: pōnō (la)
• Macedonian: става (mk) (stáva)

• Malay: letak (ms)
• Manx: cur (gv)
• Neapolitan: mette
• Norwegian: sette (no)
• Pashto: اچول (ps) (ačawəl)
• Persian: گذاشتن (fa) (gozâštan)
• Polish: kłaść (pl)
• Portuguese: pôr (pt), colocar (pt), botar (pt)
• Russian: класть (ru) (klast’) impf., положить (ru) (položít’) pf., ставить (ru) (stávit’) impf., поставить (ru) (postávit’) pf.
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ста̏вити (sh)

  Roman: stȁviti (sh)

• Slovak: dať (sk), položiť (sk)
• Slovene: staviti (sl)
• Spanish: poner (es), colocar (es), situar (es)
• Swedish: sätta (sv), ställa (sv), lägga (sv), he (sv), placera (sv)
• Thai: วาง (th) (waang)
• Tok Pisin: putim (tpi)
• Turkish: koymak (tr)
• Ukrainian: класти (uk) (klásty)
• Urdu: رکھنا (ur) (rakhnā)
• Vietnamese: để (vi), đặt (vi)
• Welsh: dodi (cy), gosod (cy)

to bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition

• Ancient Greek: τίθημι (tithēmi)
• Czech: dát (cs)
• Finnish: panna (fi)
• Macedonian: доведува (mk) (dovéduva), става (mk) (stáva)

• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: dovesti (sh), staviti (sh)

to excercise a put option

• Finnish: käyttää (fi) put-optio (fi)

to express something in a certain manner

• Czech: postavit (cs)
• Dutch: stellen (nl), brengen (nl)
• Finnish: esittää (fi)
• Italian: porre (it), mettere (it)

• Macedonian: поставува (mk) (postávuva), искажува (mk) (iskážuva)
• Scots: pit
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: postaviti (sh), kazati (sh)

athletics: to throw an iron ball

• Czech: vrhnout (cs)
• Finnish: työntää (fi)
• Greek: ρίχνω (el) (ríchno)

• Pashto: اچول (ps) (ačawəl)
• Scottish Gaelic: tilg (gd)

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: vë
• Catalan: posar, pondre
• Serbo-Croatian: posaditi, staviti, položiti
• Hungarian: tesz, rak, helyez
• Ido: pozar
• Indonesian: meletakkan, menaruh

• Kurdish: دانان
• Romanian: pune
• Sindhi: گھيڙڻ (gherrann), گھيڙائِڻ (gherraainn)
• Swedish: lägga (to put something flat) (1), ställa (to put something upright) (1), placera (1,2), göra iordning (2)

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

   He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.

See also

• Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Stock option
• call
• option

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʌt/

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 244:

     The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.

Etymology 3

Old French pute.

Noun

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: nothing · God · three · #164: put · once · new · years

Anagrams

• tup
• UTP

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ut

Verb

put

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of pudir.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of pudir.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏt
• IPA: /ˈpʏt/

Etymology

From Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-Germanic *putjaz, from Latin puteus.

Noun

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje)

1. pit, well

Derived terms

• waterput

Verb

put

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
2. imperative of putten

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Finnish

Interjection

put

1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /py/, X-SAMPA: /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

Verb

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

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Lojban

Rafsi

put

1. rafsi of sputu.

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Romanian

Verb

put

1. first-person singular present tense form of puți.
2. first-person singular subjunctive form of puți.
3. third-person plural present tense form of puți.

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʰuʰt̪/

Verb

put (verbal noun putadh)

1. push, shove, jostle

Derived terms

• put ann

Noun

put m (genitive puta, plural putan)

1. buoy

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.

Noun

pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. road
2. way
3. path
4. trip
5. journey
6. quest

Declension

    declension of put

	singular	plural
nominative	pȗt	pútovi / pútevi / púti
genitive	púta	pútēvā / pútōvā
dative	putu	pútovima / pútevima / pútima
accusative	pȗt	pútove / púteve / púte
vocative	pute	pútovi / pútevi / púti
locative	putu	pútovima /pútevima / pútima
instrumental	pútom / pútem	pútovima /pútevima / pútima

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

Noun

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

1. skin colour; tan
2. body

Declension

    declension of put

	singular	plural
nominative	put	puti
genitive	puti	puti
dative	puti	putima
accusative	put	puti
vocative	puti	puti
locative	puti	putima
instrumental	puti	putima

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English foot.

Noun

put

1. foot