putsch

See also: Putsch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʊtʃ/
Rhymes: -ʊtʃ

Noun

putsch (plural putsches)

A coup; 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 of use of this term, see Citations:putsch.

Translations

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

Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب‎ (ar) m (inqilāb)
Armenian: պուտչ (putčʿ), խռովարարություն (hy) (xṙovararutʿyun)
Belarusian: путч m (putč), пераваро́т m (pjeravarót)
Bulgarian: пуч m (puč)
Catalan: cop d'estat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 叛亂 (zh), 叛乱 (zh) (pànluàn), 政變 (zh), 政变 (zh) (zhèngbiàn)
Czech: puč (cs) m
Estonian: putš
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)
Polish: pucz 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: putsh, alzamiento, pronunciamiento, golpe (es)
Turkish: darbe (tr)
Ukrainian: путч m (putč), переворо́т m (perevorót)
Volapük: luvolut

Anagrams

schtup

French

Etymology

From German Putsch.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /putʃ/
Audio (file)

Noun

putsch m (plural putschs)

putsch; military coup d'état

Further reading

“putsch” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

putsch m (plural putsches)

putsch; coup (effort to overthrow the government)
Synonyms: golpe de estado, golpe

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