butas

See also: būtas

English

Noun

butas

1. plural of buta

Anagrams

• Taubs, buats, abuts, tabus, BATUS, tubas, busta, tsuba, Staub

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

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

• tubas

Lithuanian

Butas

Alternative forms

• butà (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰuH- ("to be") + -tós. Cognate with Latvian būda (“hut, shack”), Old Prussian buttan (“house”), Old Irish both (“hut”), Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, hut”).

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 bùtas

	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

• bendrabutis
• viešbutis

Further reading

• “butas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “butas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbutas/ [ˈbuː.t̪ɐs] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -utas
  • IPA^(key): /buˈtas/ [bʊˈt̪as] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: bu‧tas

Noun

butas (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

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

• bumutas
• butas-ilong
• butasan
• butasin
• dumaan sa butas ng karayom
• ipambutas
• itim na butas
• mabutas
• magbutas
• magkabutas-butas
• pagbubutas
• pagbubutas-butas
• pagbutas
• pagbutas-butasin
• pamasak-butas
• pambutas
• takip-butas

 

Adjective

butás (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜐ᜔)

1. perforated; punctured; with hole or holes

   Synonym: busbos

2. (figurative, slang) deflowered; devirginized (no longer a virgin)

Derived terms

• butas ang bulsa
• butas-butas
• pagkamabutas

 

Further reading

• “butas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018