bota f

1. definite nominative singular of botë

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbota/
• Syllabification: bo‧ta
• Rhymes: -ota

bota f (plural botas)

1. boot

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bota”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈbota/ [ˈbo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: bo‧ta

bota f (plural botes)

1. boot (heavy shoe that covers part of the leg)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bʊ́t.

bota

1. to produce (offspring)

• IPA^(key): /bota/ [bo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota, -a
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

Borrowed from Spanish botar (“to throw”).

bota du (imperfect participle botatzen, future participle botako, short form bota, verbal noun botatze)

1. to throw

   Synonym: jaurti

2. to sprout

Borrowed from Spanish bota (“boot”).

bota inan

1. boot

• “bota”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “bota”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• buta

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

bota

1. blind; sightless

Uncertain, perhaps from French botter.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbo.ta]

bota f (plural botes)

1. boot

Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“cask”).

• bóta (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbo.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbo.ta]

bota f (plural botes)

1. barrel, cask

   Synonyms: barral, (cask) tina

2. wineskin

   Synonym: bot

• embotar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbo.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbo.ta]

bota

1. inflection of botar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “bota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “bota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• bot (dialectal, masculine)

Inherited from Old Czech bot / bota.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbota]

• Audio:

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bota f

1. boot
2. shoe
3. (colloquial) mistake

• chyba (“mistake”)
• holínka (“shoe, boot”)
• sandál (“shoe, boot”)

• “bota”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bota”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bota”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Attested since the 14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, probably from Old French botte (“boot”) of obscure, probably Germanic, origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔta/ [ˈbɔ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

bota f (plural botas)

1. boot
   • 1434, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 609:

     Manda o conçello et os alcalldes, regidores et procuradores desta villa da crunna de parte de noso sennor el Rey et do dito conçello da dita villa et porque asi he ordenança antiga que nehunus çapateiros et outras quasquer personas que non sejan çapateiros et vezinnos et moradores da dita villa et en ela non pagan talla con os outros çapateiros vezjnnos da dita villa que non son confrades dos çapateiros asi como os çapateiros de portal, que non vsen dos ditos ofiçios de çapateria nen vendan çapatos nen botas nen outro calçado de coiro en publico nen ascondido nen los ponnan en tendas nen portaes nen anden a vender por la dita villa et pescaria dela Et desde Palavea et media legoa da villa enderredor a villa saluo se os venderen a engros aos ditos çapateiros que viuen et moran na dita villa ou eles os consentiren vender en seus portaes.

     the council and mayors, councilmen and agents of this town of A Coruña, on behalf of our lord the King and of this town council, and because so it is an old ordinance; that no shoemaker or whichever other person who is not a shoemaker and neighbour and dweller of the said town and in it they did not pay contributions with the other shoemakers neighbours of the said town and which are not a brother of the guild of the shoemakers, as well as the shoemakers who work at their porches; that they should not use of this office of shoemaking nor should they sell shoes nor boots nor any other leather footwear, nor publicly, nor in hiding, nor should they put them in shops nor porches nor should they go selling them around this town and its fishery [outskirts neighbourhood], nor from Palavea and half a league around this town, except if they sell them in bulk to the said shoemakers that live and dwell in the said town or if they let them sell at their porches

• boto

From Old Galician-Portuguese (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin buttis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔta̝/

bota f (plural botas)

1. bota bag
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item çinquo odres et hua bota grande

     Item, five wineskins a one large bota bag

   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     Pond'a messa, Cathaliña.
     Christobo:
     Sacad'essa bota, Irena.
     Alberte:
     Sacà, Marta, esse pernil.
     Cathaliña:
     Homes tende pouca pressa,
     que para todo ay bagar.

     Afonso:
     "Set the table, Cathaliña."
     Christobo:
     "Bring out that wineskin, Irena."
     Alberte:
     "Bring out, Marta, that ham."
     Cathaliña:
     "Men, be in little hurry,
     there is a time for everything."

2. blister

• botado
• boto

• botella
• butelo

Deverbal from botar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbota̝/

bota f (plural botas)

1. seeding
2. sowing time

• botar

From boto (“blunt, dull”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbota̝/, /ˈbɔta̝/

bota

1. feminine singular of boto

bota f (plural botas)

1. bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

   Synonym: arroás

• quenlla bota

bota

1. inflection of botar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “bota”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

bota

1. romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰

From Portuguese botar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bota.

bota

1. to throw

Inherited from Malay bota (“giant”), from Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”). Doublet of buta.

• IPA^(key): /bo.ta/
• Rhymes: -ta
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

bota (plural bota-bota)

1. alternative spelling of buta (“giant”)

• “bota”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Portuguese botar.

bota

1. to throw

Borrowed from Bangi bota.

-bota (infinitive kobota)

1. to give birth

From Sanskrit भूत (bhūta, “demon”).

bota (Jawi spelling بوتا, plural bota-bota or bota²)

1. (folklore, mythology) giant

• buta (Indonesia)

• > Indonesian: bota (inherited)

• “bota”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN
• "bota" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From buta, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta.

bota

1. to blind

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buta, from Proto-Austronesian *buCa.

bota

1. blind

bota

1. to produce

• boten

bota m or f

1. definite singular of bot

bota f

1. definite singular of bot

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From French botte (“boot”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”), of obscure origin, but probably of Germanic origin.

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Homophone: vota (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

bota f (plural botas)

1. boot (shoe that covers part of the leg)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Homophone: vota (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

bota

1. inflection of botar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -otɐ
• Hyphenation: bo‧ta

bota

1. feminine singular of boto

• “bota”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈbota/ [ˈbo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: bo‧ta
• Homophone: vota

Borrowed from French botte. Compare English boot.

bota f (plural botas)

1. boot

• → Ye'kwana: wota

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Inherited from Late Latin buttis, with a change of suffix, and probably of Ancient Greek origin. Compare English butt (“large cask”).

bota f (plural botas)

1. wineskin, bota bag; soft pouch, usually suspended from a cord or lanyard, for carrying wine or other beverages (similar to a canteen)

   Synonym: borracha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bota

1. feminine singular of boto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bota

1. inflection of botar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “bota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

See bot (“remedy, cure”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

bota (present botar, preterite botade, supine botat, imperative bota)

1. to cure, heal; to restore to good health; to relieve from a disease

• böta

• “bota”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

Borrowed from Spanish bota.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbota/ [ˈboː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: bo‧ta

bota (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆ)

1. boot

   Synonym: botas

• bato, abot, taob, tabo

bota f (plural bote)

1. blow, hit

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