putsch

See also: Putsch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʊt͡ʃ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Noun

putsch (plural putsches)

1. A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

   Synonyms: coup, coup d'état

   Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.

   • 2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.

     "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:putsch.

Derived terms

• putscher
• putschist

 

Translations

a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government

Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب (ar) m (inqilāb) Armenian: պուտչ (hy) (putčʻ), խռովարարություն (hy) (xṙovararutʻyun) Asturian: putsch m, golpe d'estáu m, alzamientu m Belarusian: путч m (putč), пераваро́т m (pjeravarót) Bulgarian: пуч m (puč) Catalan: cop d'estat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 叛亂／叛乱 (zh) (pànluàn), 政變／政变 (zh) (zhèngbiàn) Czech: puč (cs) m Esperanto: puĉo, ŝtatrenverso Estonian: putš Finnish: vallankaappaus (fi) French: coup d’État (fr) m, putsch (fr) m Georgian: პუტჩი (ṗuṭči) German: Putsch (de) m Hebrew: פּוּטְשׁ (he) m (putsh) Hungarian: puccs (hu) Latvian: pučs m Lithuanian: pučas m Macedonian: пуч m (puč) Maori: upokotaua Polish: pucz (pl) m Portuguese: putsch (pt) m, golpe de estado (pt) m, golpe (pt) m Romanian: puci (ro) n, lovitură de stat (ro) f Russian: путч (ru) m (putč), переворо́т (ru) m (perevorót) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пре̏вра̄т m, пу̏ч m, др̀жа̄внӣ у̏да̄р m Roman: prȅvrāt (sh) m, pȕč (sh) m, dr̀žāvnī ȕdār m Slovak: puč m Slovene: puč m Spanish: putsch, alzamiento, pronunciamiento (es), golpe (es), militarada f Turkish: darbe (tr) Ukrainian: путч m (putč), переворо́т m (perevorót) Volapük: luvolut Yiddish: ּפּוטש m

Anagrams

• schtup

Dutch

Alternative forms

• Putsch (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: putsch

Noun

putsch m (plural putschen)

1. a putsch, a coup d'état

   Synonyms: coup, staatsgreep

Derived terms

• putschist

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /putʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

putsch m (plural putschs)

1. putsch; military coup d'état

Further reading

• “putsch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Alemannic German Putsch.

Noun

putsch m (plural putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Putsch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈput͡ʃ/ [ˈput͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -utʃ

Noun

putsch m (plural # or putsches)

1. putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)

   Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.