butas

See also: būtas

English

Noun

butas

  1. plural of buta

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas
  • IPA(key): /buˈtas/

Noun

butás

  1. act of setting free, setting loose
  2. act of freeing, releasing
  3. act of fumbling
    Synonyms: kapkap, kamas-kamas
  4. weaning
    Synonym: tari

Derived terms
  • butasan
  • butason
  • mabutasan
  • magbutas
  • makabutas

Cebuano

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas

Noun

butas

  1. a ritual offering to the spirits for a good harvest

French

Verb

butas

  1. second-person singular past historic of buter

Anagrams

Lithuanian
Butas

Alternative forms
  • butà (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become”), cf. būti (“to be”). Cognate with Old Prussian buttan (“house”), Old Irish both (“hut”), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, hut”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbʊt̪ɐs̪]

Noun

bùtas m (plural bùtai) stress pattern 2

  1. flat, apartment
    Àš gyvenù víeno kam̃bario butè.
    I live in a one room apartment.
  2. (dialectal) house, cottage
  3. (Žemaitian) building, house

Declension
declension of butas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) bùtas bùtai
genitive (kilmininkas) bùto bùtų
dative (naudininkas) bùtui bùtams
accusative (galininkas) bùtą butùs
instrumental (įnagininkas) butù bùtais
locative (vietininkas) butè bùtuose
vocative (šauksmininkas) bùte bùtai

Derived terms

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “butas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107
  2. “butà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 172 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  3. “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

Further reading
  • “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
  • “butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2023

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1
  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas
  • IPA(key): /ˈbutas/, [ˈbu.tɐs]

Noun

bútas

  1. hole; pit
  2. orifice; opening; mouth; outlet
  3. eye (of a needle)
  4. leak; crack
  5. act of boring a hole; perforation
    Synonym: pagbutas
  6. (figurative) loophole; means of escape
    Synonym: lusutan
Derived terms

Pronunciation 2
  • Hyphenation: bu‧tas
  • IPA(key): /buˈtas/, [bʊˈtas]

Adjective

butás

  1. perforated; punctured; with hole or holes
    Synonym: busbos
  2. (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)
Derived terms
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