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• bo͞ot
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• Received-Pronunciation: /buːt/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /bʉwt/
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• General-American: /but/
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• Australian: /bʉːt/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /bʉt/
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• CMU ARPABET: B UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, from the noun boot. * As a Dutch and German surname, from Bote (“messenger”), compare Bode. Also an occupational surname for a boatman, from boot.

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhewt-, *bhewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.

From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhed- (“good”). Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta), German Buße. Doublet of bote (a borrowing from Middle English).

Clipping of bootstrap.

From bootleg (“to make or sell illegally”), by shortening.

277 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: stewel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Southern Altai: башмак (bašmak) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Southern Altai: ӧдӱк (ödük) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Western Apache: kee hadago ndeezí — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Arabic: جَزْمَة (jazma) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Arabic: بسطار (busṭār) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Arabic: بوت (bōt) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Arabic: بوت (bōt, būt) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Aragonese: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Armenian: երկարաճիտ կոշիկ (erkaračit košik) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Armenian: ճտքակոշիկ (čtkʻakošik) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Armenian: սապոգ (sapog) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Asturian: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Azerbaijani: çəkmə — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Bashkir: итек (itek) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Belarusian: чараві́к (čaravík) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Belarusian: бот (bot) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Belarusian: боцік (bócik) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Breton: heuz — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Bulgarian: бо́туш (bótuš) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Burmese: ဘွတ်ဖိနပ် (bhwathpi.nap) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Catalan: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Chichewa: jombo — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Chinese Cantonese: 靴 (hoe1) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Chinese Mandarin: 靴子 (xuēzi) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Chinese Mandarin: 長靴 /长靴 (chángxuē) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Chuvash: атӑ (at̬ă) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Cornish: botas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Cornish: botasen — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Czech: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Danish: støvle — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Dutch: laars — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Dutch: bot — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Dutch: hoge schoen — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Esperanto: boto — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Estonian: saabas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Faroese: stivli — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Faroese: stilvi — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Finnish: saapas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Finnish: kenkä — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• French: botte — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• French: bottine — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Galician: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Georgian: წაღა (c̣aɣa) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Georgian: ჩექმა (čekma) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• German: Stiefel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Greek: μπότα (bóta) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ancient Greek: ἁρπίς (harpís) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ancient Greek: κρηπίς (krēpís) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Greenlandic: kamik — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Haitian Creole: bòt — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Hebrew: מַגָּף (magáf) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Hindi: बूट (būṭ) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Hungarian: csizma — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Hungarian: bakancs — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Icelandic: stígvél — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ido: boto — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Indonesian: bot — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ingrian: saapas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Interlingua: botta — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Irish: bróg — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Irish: buatais — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Italian: stivale — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Italian: scarpone — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Japanese: ブーツ (būtsu) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Japanese: ブート (būto) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Japanese: 長靴 (nagagutsu) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Khmer: ស្បែកជើង (sbaek cəəng) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Khmer: ស្បែកជើងកវែង (sbaek cəəng kɑɑ vɛɛng) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Korean: 장화 (janghwa) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Korean: 목화 (mokhwa) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Central Kurdish: چەکمە (çekme) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Northern Kurdish: cezme — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Northern Kurdish: potîn — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Kyrgyz: жүктөө (jüktöö) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Latin: pero — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Latin: cothurnus — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Latin: caliga — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Latvian: zābaks — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Lithuanian: batas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Luxembourgish: Stiwwel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Macedonian: чизма (čizma) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Malay: kasut but — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Maltese: buzza — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Manchu: ᡤᡡᠯᡥᠠ (gūlha) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Māori: pūtu — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Mongolian: гутал (gutal) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Navajo: ké deigo nineezí — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Nogai: этик (étik) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Norman: botte — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Norwegian Bokmål: støvel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Norwegian Nynorsk: støvel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Occitan: botèl — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Old East Slavic: плесница (plesnica) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Old East Slavic: сапогъ (sapogŭ) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Pashto: موزه (moza) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Iranian Persian: پوتین (putin) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Iranian Persian: بوت (but) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Iranian Persian: چَکْمِه (čakme) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Iranian Persian: موزِه (muze) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Iranian Persian: چِزْمِه (čezme) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Plautdietsch: Steewel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Polish: but — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Portuguese: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Romanian: cizmă — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Romansh: stival — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Romansh: stivagl — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Romansh: stivel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Russian: бу́тса (ru) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Russian: боти́нок (botínok) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Russian: башма́к (bašmák) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Russian: сапо́г (sapóg) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Russian: бу́тсы (bútsy) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Scottish Gaelic: bòtann — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Serbo-Croatian: чи̏зма — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Serbo-Croatian: čȉzma — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Sicilian: stivala — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Slovak: čižma — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Slovene: škorenj — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Spanish: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Sudovian: skarne — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Swahili: buti — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Swedish: stövel — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Swedish: känga — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Tagalog: bota — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Tajik: ботинка (botinka) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Tajik: мӯза (müza) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Taos: bútoną — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Telugu: బూటు (būṭu) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Thai: รองเท้า (rɔɔng-táao) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Turkish: çizme — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ottoman Turkish: چیزمه (çizme) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Turkmen: ädik — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Turkmen: botinka — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ukrainian: чо́біт (čóbit) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Ukrainian: череви́к (čerevýk) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Urdu: بُوٹ (būṭ) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Uzbek: botinka — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Uzbek: etik — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Vietnamese: giày ống — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Vietnamese: ủng — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Volapük: but — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Welsh: esgid — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Welsh: botas — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Welsh: botasen — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Woiwurrung: o'look — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Yaghnobi: мӯза (müza) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Yiddish: שטיוול (shtivl) — heavy shoe that covers part of the leg
• Dutch: huls — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Dutch: beschermhuls — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Finnish: suojakumi — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Italian: guaina — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Portuguese: cobertura — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Spanish: funda — construction: flexible cover to protect a shaft, lever, switch etc.
• Old Armenian: ներբանք (nerbankʻ) — torture device
• Finnish: saapas — torture device
• Hungarian: spanyolcsizma — torture device
• Macedonian: чи́зма (čízma) — torture device
• Swedish: vagnslåda — archaic: place for baggage at either end of a stagecoach
• Bulgarian: уволнение (uvolnenie) — act or process of removing or firing someone
• Finnish: potkut — act or process of removing or firing someone
• Finnish: luuska — unattractive person, ugly woman
• Finnish: paisunut lippulehden tuppi — botany: inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant
• Swedish: båtnad — remedy
• Swedish: gagn — remedy
• Swedish: hjälp — remedy
• Swedish: fördel — remedy
• Swedish: vinning — remedy
• Swedish: vinst — remedy
• Bulgarian: полза (polza) — profit
• Finnish: tuotto — profit
• Swedish: vinning — profit
• Esperanto: praŝarĝo — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Esperanto: startigo — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Finnish: käynnistys — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Finnish: uudelleenkäynnistys — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Finnish: boottaus — the act or process of bootstrapping
• French: boot — the act or process of bootstrapping
• French: amorçage — the act or process of bootstrapping
• German: Booten — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Hungarian: indítás — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Hungarian: bootolás — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Hungarian: rendszerindítás — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Indonesian: but — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Indonesian: inisialisasi — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Italian: avvio — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Polish: rozruch — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Portuguese: inicialização — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Portuguese: boot — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Russian: загру́зка (zagrúzka) — the act or process of bootstrapping
• Dutch: bootleg — bootleg recording
• Finnish: piraattikopio — bootleg recording
• French: copie pirate — bootleg recording
• Bulgarian: ритам (ritam) — to kick
• Chinese Mandarin: 踢 (tī) — to kick
• Dutch: trappen — to kick
• Dutch: schoppen — to kick
• Dutch: schieten — to kick
• Finnish: potkaista — to kick
• French: botter — to kick
• Greek: κλωτσώ (klotsó) — to kick
• Macedonian: кло́ца (klóca) — to kick
• Norman: botter — to kick
• Russian: пина́ть (pinátʹ) — to kick
• Russian: пнуть (pnutʹ) — to kick
• Swedish: sparka — to kick
• Finnish: vetää saappaat jalkaan — to put on boots
• Ido: botizar — to put on boots
• Dutch: afranselen — to apply corporal punishment
• Dutch: straffen — to apply corporal punishment
• Finnish: teloittaa — to apply corporal punishment
• Bulgarian: изхвърлям (izhvǎrljam) — to forcibly eject
• Dutch: eruitgooien — to forcibly eject
• Dutch: buitengooien — to forcibly eject
• Dutch: eruittrappen — to forcibly eject
• Finnish: heittää ulos — to forcibly eject
• French: expulser — to forcibly eject
• Russian: вы́пнуть (výpnutʹ) — to forcibly eject
• Swedish: sparka — to forcibly eject
• Dutch: eruitgooien — computing: to eject from an online service
• Dutch: buitengooien — computing: to eject from an online service
• Dutch: eruittrappen — computing: to eject from an online service
• Finnish: heittää ulos — computing: to eject from an online service
• Finnish: bannata — computing: to eject from an online service
• French: déconnecter — computing: to eject from an online service
• Catalan: vomitar — to vomit
• Dutch: kotsen — to vomit
• Dutch: braken — to vomit
• Finnish: oksentaa — to vomit
• Finnish: yrjötä — to vomit
• French: vomir — to vomit
• Swedish: kräkas — to vomit
• Swedish: spy — to vomit
• Finnish: suolata — criminal slang: to kill by gunfire
• Bulgarian: ползвам (polzvam) — to profit
• Swedish: båta — to profit
• Swedish: gagna — to profit
• Swedish: hjälpa — to profit
• Swedish: tjäna — to profit
• Chinese Mandarin: 啟動 /启动 (qǐdòng) — to start a system
• Chinese Mandarin: 起動 /起动 (qǐdòng) — to start a system
• Dutch: opstarten — to start a system
• Esperanto: praŝarĝi — to start a system
• Estonian: buutimine — to start a system
• Estonian: buutima — to start a system
• Finnish: käynnistää — to start a system
• Finnish: bootata — to start a system
• French: amorcer — to start a system
• French: démarrer — to start a system
• French: booter — to start a system
• German: starten — to start a system
• German: laden — to start a system
• German: booten — to start a system
• German: hochfahren — to start a system
• Greek: εκκινώ (ekkinó) — to start a system
• Hungarian: indít — to start a system
• Hungarian: elindít — to start a system
• Hungarian: bootol — to start a system
• Icelandic: ræsa — to start a system
• Icelandic: inna ræsiforrit — to start a system
• Italian: avviare — to start a system
• Italian: caricare — to start a system
• Japanese: 起動する (kidō-suru) — to start a system
• Māori: whakaoho — to start a system
• Māori: whakaara — to start a system
• Polish: wykonać rozruch — to start a system
• Polish: uruchomić — to start a system
• Portuguese: iniciar — to start a system
• Portuguese: inicializar — to start a system
• Portuguese: arrancar — to start a system
• Russian: загружа́ть (zagružátʹ) — to start a system
• Russian: загрузи́ть (zagruzítʹ) — to start a system
• Tashelhit: awl i (Souss-Massa) — to start a system
• Spanish: arrancar — to start a system
• Swedish: boota — to start a system
• Turkish: başlatma — to start a system
• Vietnamese: khởi động — to start a system