put

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”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). 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”).

• putt (obsolete)

• enPR: po͝ot, IPA^(key): /pʊt/, [pʰʊʔt]

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /pʉt/
• Homophone: putt (without the foot-strut split)
• Rhymes: -ʊt

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)

1. To place something somewhere.

   She put her books on the table.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

2. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
   • 1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 11:

     Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,

   Put your house 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.

   • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:

     All this is ingeniously and ably put.

5. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
6. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.

7. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
8. To attach or attribute; to assign.

   to put a wrong construction on an act or expression

9. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, John 15:13, page 280:

     No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

10. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

    to put a question; to put a case

    • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book

      Put the perceptions and you put the mind.

    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

      Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.

11. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
    • 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston:

      These wretches put us upon all mischief.

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 386:

      Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge

    • 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

      Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.

12. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.^[1]

• putten

put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

1. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
2. (finance) Short for put option.

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

   • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange

     A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.

3. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

   the put of a ball

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.

4. (uncountable) An old card game.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:

     Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.

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Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/
• Homophone: putt

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
   • 1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste:

     Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
     And of lost hospitality complain.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 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.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.

   • 1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review:

     Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

From Old French pute.

put (plural puts)

1. (obsolete) A prostitute.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.

• PTU, TPU, UTP, tup

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

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put (plural putte)

1. well; pit

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈput]
• Rhymes: -ut

put

1. inflection of pudir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏt/

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• Hyphenation: put
• Rhymes: -ʏt
• Homophone: Puth

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti (“a well”).

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

1. pit, well
2. drain

• afvoerput
• beerput
• opvangput
• putjesschepper
• putlucht
• regenput
• waterput

• Afrikaans: put
• Negerhollands: pit, put
• → Sranan Tongo: peti
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: peti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

put

1. inflection of putten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /ˈput/, [ˈput̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Hyphenation^(key): put

put

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

• IPA^(key): /py/

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• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût

put

1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

• putt

• IPA^(key): /pʊt/

put

1. (usually repeated several times) chook (call used to attract chickens)

put

1. Alternative spelling of putr

put

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of putēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of putēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of putēt

put

1. inflection of puți:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

• IPA^(key): /pʰuht̪/

Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

1. push, shove
2. jostle
3. press

• putan
• put ann

Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”).

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

1. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
2. corpulent person; any bulging thing
3. shovelful, sod, spadeful
4. (medicine) bruised swelling

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “put”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 284

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. road

   put za Sarajevo ― road to Sarajevo

   Gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? ― Where does this road lead?

2. way

   ovim putem ― this way

   ići pravim putem ― to go the right way

   vodeni put ― waterway

   ići svojim putem ― to go one's own way

   stati nekome na put ― to stand in somebody's way

   najkraći put do bolnice ― the shortest way to the hospital

   na pola puta do škole ― halfway to the school

   Teret je na putu. ― The cargo is on the way.

   Miči mi se s puta! ― Get out of my way!

3. path

   krčiti put ― to clear a path

   put do usp(j)eha ― the path to success

4. trip, journey, travel

   ići na put ― to go on a trip

   biti na putu ― to be on a trip

   put oko sv(ij)eta ― a trip around the world

   poslovni put ― a business trip

5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) way, method, means

   sudskim putem ― by legal means; through court order

   službenim/zvaničnim putem ― through official channels

• “put”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

• IPA^(key): /pût/

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

1. complexion, skin hue, tan

   sv(ij)etla put ― fair complexion/tan

   tamna put ― dark complexion/tan

   crna put ― black complexion/tan

2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities

   mlada put ― a young body

   gladna put ― a hungry body

• “put”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)

1. to, toward

   put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo

   put škole ― to school

   Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.

   Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

• pútā (genitive plural)

• IPA^(key): /pûːt/

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)

   prvi put ― the first time, for the first time

   drugi put ― the second time, for the second time; another time

   ovaj put ― this time

   sljedeći/sledeći put ― the next time

   posljednji/poslednji put ― the last time

   po stoti put ― for the hundredth time

   svaki put ― every time

• “put”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

put m (plural puts)

1. (Mexico) papaya

• “put”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From English foot.

put

1. foot

From Persian بت (“idol”), from Middle Persian bwt' (“Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).

• IPA^(key): /pʰut/

put (definite accusative putu, plural putlar)

1. idol (object or thing of spiritual worship)

Inflection
Nominative	put
Definite accusative	putu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	put	putlar
Definite accusative	putu	putları
Dative	puta	putlara
Locative	putta	putlarda
Ablative	puttan	putlardan
Genitive	putun	putların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular putum putlarım 2nd singular putun putların 3rd singular putu putları 1st plural putumuz putlarımız 2nd plural putunuz putlarınız 3rd plural putları putları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular putumu putlarımı 2nd singular putunu putlarını 3rd singular putunu putlarını 1st plural putumuzu putlarımızı 2nd plural putunuzu putlarınızı 3rd plural putlarını putlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular putuma putlarıma 2nd singular putuna putlarına 3rd singular putuna putlarına 1st plural putumuza putlarımıza 2nd plural putunuza putlarınıza 3rd plural putlarına putlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular putumda putlarımda 2nd singular putunda putlarında 3rd singular putunda putlarında 1st plural putumuzda putlarımızda 2nd plural putunuzda putlarınızda 3rd plural putlarında putlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular putumdan putlarımdan 2nd singular putundan putlarından 3rd singular putundan putlarından 1st plural putumuzdan putlarımızdan 2nd plural putunuzdan putlarınızdan 3rd plural putlarından putlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular putumun putlarımın 2nd singular putunun putlarının 3rd singular putunun putlarının 1st plural putumuzun putlarımızın 2nd plural putunuzun putlarınızın 3rd plural putlarının putlarının

• putperest

• “put”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “put”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı