putu
See also: puṯu
English
Pronunciation
- (General South African) IPA(key): /ˈpʊtʊ/, /ˈpuːtʊ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpuːtuː/
Noun
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).
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Related terms
- putu pap
Translations
maize porridge
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈputu/, [ˈput̪u]
- Rhymes: -utu
- Syllabification(key): pu‧tu
Declension
| 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 | ||
| instructive | — | puduin | ||
| abessive | pudutta | puduitta | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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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”).
Declension
Further reading
Hopi
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈputu]
- Hyphenation: pu‧tu
Noun
putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)
Further reading
- “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈputu/
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [puˈtu]
Serbo-Croatian
Tausug
Noun
putu
- A confection made by steaming grated cassava.
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