botar
Meaning
- (informal) to put
- (informal) to put
- (informal) to throw
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bo‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/boˈta(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese botar, from Old French bouter (“to strike, push”), from Frankish *bautan (“to push, strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, strike, hew”).
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