putu

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈpʊtʊ/, /ˈpuːtʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːtuː/

putu (uncountable)

1. (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).

• putu pap

From Proto-Finnic *putu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputu/, [ˈput̪u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification^(key): pu‧tu

putu (dialectal)

1. dust, dirt

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”).

putu (plural putut)

1. hole

• DAKA

putu

1. heavy (possessing great weight)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “puttu”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈputu]
• Hyphenation: pu‧tu

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

• “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [puttu]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [puːtu]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [puʔtu]

putu (possessed puturu)

1. 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

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, 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, Paris, 1956, page 389

• IPA^(key): /ˈputu/

putu

1. accusative singular of puta
2. instrumental singular of puta

• IPA^(key): [puˈtu]

putu

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

putu m

1. dative/locative singular of put

putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)

1. dative/locative singular of puto

putu (Cyrillic spelling путу)

1. accusative singular of puta

putu

1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.

putu

1. accusative singular of put