putu
See also: puṯu
English edit
Etymology edit
From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
putu (uncountable)
- (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 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, published 2013, page 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).
Related terms edit
Translations edit
maize porridge
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *putu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
putu (dialectal)
Declension edit
Inflection of putu (Kotus type 1*F/valo, t-d gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | pudutta | puduitta | ||
instructive | — | puduin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Greenlandic edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
putu (plural putut)
Declension edit
Declension of putu
Further reading edit
Hopi edit
Adjective edit
putu
- heavy (possessing great weight)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay putu, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “puttu”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)
- (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.
Further reading edit
- “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Kari'na edit
Etymology edit
Compare Trió putu, Wayampi putu.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
putu (possessed puturu)
- piece of decorated flat wood with a squared-off end and sharp edges, formerly used as a war club and now used as a ceremonial implement; bludgeon, mace
Descendants edit
- → Antillean Creole: boutou
References edit
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 354
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “putu”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 399; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[2], Paris, 1956, page 389
Lower Sorbian edit
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putu
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
putu
- third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
putu m
Noun edit
putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)
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putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)
Tausug edit
Noun edit
putu
- A confection made by steaming grated cassava.
Turkish edit
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putu