Putin

See also: put in, putin, and puțin

English

Portrait of Vladimir Putin

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Пу́тин (Pútin).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.tɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.tɪn/
• (UK, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.tɪn/

• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Putin (plural Putins)

1. A transliteration of the Russian surname Пу́тин (Pútin).
   1. Vladimir Putin; Russian president, 2012–current

      Synonyms: Pootin, Pooty-Poot, Putler

      • 2007 November 14, Luke Harding, “Putin: I have a moral right to continue wielding influence”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2026:

        But yesterday's remarks are the baldest affirmation yet that Putin has no real intention of resigning from politics.

   2. A surname from Russian.
      1. A masculine-form surname from Russian; masculine of Putina

Derived terms

• anti-Putinism
• anti-Putinist
• deputinization
• Pootin
• Pooty
• Pooty-Poot
• Putinesque
• Putinian
• Putinisation
• putinisation
• Putinise
• Putinism
• Putinist
• Putinista
• Putinite
• Putinland
• Putinology
• Putinomania
• Putinomics
• Putinophile
• Putinophilia
• Putinstan
• Putler

Translations

surname

• Abkhaz: Путин (Pʼutʼin)
• Albanian: Putin m
• Arabic: بُوتِين m (pūtīn)
• Armenian: Պուտին (Putin)
• Avar: Путин (Putin)
• Azerbaijani: Putin
• Bashkir: Путин (Potin)
• Belarusian: Пу́цін m (Púcin)
• Bengali: পুতিন (putin)
• Bulgarian: Пу́тин m (Pútin)
• Burmese: ပူတင် (putang)
• Catalan: Putin
• Chechen: Путин (Putin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 普京 (pou² ging¹)

  Mandarin: 普京 (zh) (Pǔjīng) (Mainland China), 普廷 (Pǔtíng) (ROC), 普丁 (zh) (Pǔdīng) (ROC), 普亭 (Pǔtíng) (ROC)

• Chuvash: Путин (Put̬in)
• Czech: Putin (cs) m
• Danish: Putin c
• Dutch: Poetin m
• Esperanto: Putin, Putino (often derogatory)
• Estonian: Putin
• Finnish: Putin
• French: Poutine (fr) m
• Georgian: პუტინი (ṗuṭini)
• German: Putin m
• Greek: Πούτιν (el) m (Poútin)
• Hebrew: פוטין m (pútin)
• Hindi: पुतिन m (putin)
• Hungarian: Putyin (hu)
• Icelandic: Pútín m
• Indonesian: Putin
• Italian: Putin m
• Japanese: プーチン (Pūchin)
• Kannada: ಪುತಿನ್ (putin)
• Kazakh: Путин (Puwtıyn)

  Arabic: پۋتين (puwtıyn)

• Khakas: Путин (Putin)
• Khmer: ពូទីន (puutiin)
• Korean: 푸틴 (Putin) (South Korea), 뿌찐 (Ppujjin) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Putîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Путин (Putin)
• Lao: ປູຕິນ (pū tin)
• Latvian: Putins m
• Lithuanian: Putinas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Путин m (Putin)
• Malay: Putin
• Marathi: पुतिन (putin)
• Mingrelian: პუტინი (ṗuṭini), პუტინი (ṗuṭini)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Путин (Putin)

  Mongolian script: ᠫᠦ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠢᠨ (pütin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Putin m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Поутинъ m (Putinŭ) (modern)

• Ossetian: Путин (Putin)
• Pashto: پوتين (putin)
• Persian: پوتین (fa) (putin)
• Polish: Putin m
• Portuguese: Putin m
• Romanian: Putin m
• Russian: Пу́тин (ru) m (Pútin)
• Sanskrit: पुतिन् (putin)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Путин m

  Latin: Putin m

• Sinhalese: පුටින් (puṭin)
• Slovak: Putin m
• Slovene: Putin m
• Spanish: Putin m
• Swedish: Putin c
• Tajik: Путин (Putin)
• Tamil: பூட்டின் (pūṭṭiṉ)
• Tatar: Путин (Putin)
• Thai: ปูติน (bpuu-dtin)
• Tibetan: ཕུའུ་ཅིང (phu'u cing)
• Turkish: Putin (tr)
• Turkmen: Putin
• Tuvan: Путин (Putin)
• Ukrainian: Пу́тін m (Pútin)
• Urdu: پوتین (pūtīn)
• Uyghur: پۇتىن (putin)

  Cyrillic: Путин (Putin)

• Uzbek: Putin
• Vietnamese: Pu-tin
• Yakut: Путин (Putin)
• Yiddish: פּוטין m (putin)

Further reading

• Vladimir Putin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Punti, input, put in

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈputin/
• Rhymes: -utin
• Syllabification: Pu‧tin

Proper noun

Putin (accusative Putin)

1. Putin

   Synonym: (often derogatory) Putino

   • 2015, Kalle Kniivilä, “Sopiro al Sovetio [Yearning for the Soviet Union]”, in Krimeo estas nia [Crimea is ours]:

     Pluraj subtenantoj de la anekso menciis Stalinon kiel bonan gvidanton. Sed Stalino ja ne estis same perfekta kiel estas Putin, aldonis unu el ili.

     Several supporters of the annexation mentioned Stalin as a good leader. But Stalin was certainly not as perfect as Putin, added another of them.

Usage notes

The fully Esperantized form Putino is usually avoided by neutral or favorable publications, owing to its homophony with putino.

Polish

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Пу́тин (Pútin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.tin/
• Rhymes: -utin
• Syllabification: Pu‧tin

Proper noun

Putin m pers (related adjective putinowski)

1. a transliteration of the Russian surname Пу́тин (Pútin): Putin
2. Vladimir Putin

Declension

Declension of Putin

	singular	plural
nominative	Putin	Putinowie, Putiny1
genitive	Putina	Putinów
dative	Putinowi	Putinom
accusative	Putina	Putinów
instrumental	Putinem	Putinami
locative	Putinie	Putinach
vocative	Putinie	Putinowie

¹Deprecative.

Further reading

• “Putin”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Putin in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Proper noun

Putin m or f by sense

1. Putin