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4-letter words (1 found)

PITA,

3-letter words (9 found)

AIT,APT,ITA,PAT,PIA,PIT,TAI,TAP,TIP,

2-letter words (7 found)

AI,AT,IT,PA,PI,TA,TI,

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All 4 letters words made out of pita

pita ipta ptia tpia itpa tipa piat ipat pait apit iapt aipt ptai tpai pati apti tapi atpi itap tiap iatp aitp taip atip

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Definitions and meaning of pita

pita

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiːtə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtə, -iːtə
  • Homophone: PETA (US)
  • Homophone: Peter (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza. Doublet of pide and pizza.

Alternative forms

  • pita bread
  • pitta
  • pitta bread

Noun

pita (plural pitas)

  1. A piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

Noun

pita (countable and uncountable, plural pitas)

  1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  2. The plant which yields the fiber.

Anagrams

  • Pait, TAPI

Asturian

Noun

pita f (plural pites)

  1. hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))

Synonyms

  • gallina

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ta
  • IPA(key): /piˈtaʔ/, [piˈtaʔ]

Noun

pitâ

  1. (anatomy, childish) vagina of young girls
    Synonyms: buray, putay, buday, pipi

Buhi'non Bikol

Noun

pita

  1. morning
    Coordinate terms: udto, apon, gabi

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpi.ta]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

Noun

pita f (plural pites)

  1. century plant
    Synonym: atzavara
  2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

Noun

pita f (plural pites)

  1. pita (flat bread pouch)

Further reading

  • “pita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “pita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “pita” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “pita” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɪta]

Etymology 1

Noun

pita f

  1. pita
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

pita

  1. inflection of pít:
    1. feminine singular passive participle
    2. neuter plural passive participle

Further reading

  • pita in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pita in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Etymology

From Greek πίτα (píta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpitɑ/, [ˈpit̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -itɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pi‧ta

Noun

pita

  1. pita

Declension

Synonyms

  • pitaleipä

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • apit, pati

Galician

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpita̝/

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

  1. young hen
    Synonym: pola
  2. hen
    Synonym: galiña
Derived terms
  • Pita
  • pita cega
  • pita de río
  • pita do monte
Related terms
  • pitiño
  • pito

Etymology 2

From Spanish pita, from an American language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpita̝/

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

  1. century plant
    Synonyms: agave, piteira
  2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
  3. pita (the plant which yields the fiber)
Derived terms
  • piteira

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pita

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

References

  • “pita” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “pita” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “pita” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “pita” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pita” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guaraní

Verb

pita

  1. smoke

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French plus tard (“later”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pita/

Adverb

pita

  1. later

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay pita, from Portuguese fita, from Latin vitta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.ta/

Noun

pita

  1. ribbon
  2. excise seal
  3. band
    1. (physics, computing) a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ita
  • Hyphenation: pì‧ta

Noun

pita f (plural pite)

  1. pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)
    Synonym: pane arabo

Anagrams

  • patì, tipa

Javanese

Romanization

pita

  1. Romanization of ꦥꦶꦠ

Limos Kalinga

Noun

pita

  1. dirt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʲita]

Participle

pita

  1. nominative singular feminine of pity

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

pita

  1. land; earth

Old Javanese

Etymology

Unknown, probably affixed hita (“benefit, welfare”) +‎ pa-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ta
  • Homophones: pita, pīta, pitā
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ta

Adjective

pita

  1. drunk

Noun

pita

  1. drink
  2. food

Descendants

  • >? Javanese: ꦥꦶꦠ (pita)

Further reading

  • "pita" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

pita

  1. vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

Anagrams

  • pati

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ita
  • Syllabification: pi‧ta
  • Homophone: Pita

Etymology 1

Perhaps borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta). Doublet of pizza.

Alternative forms

  • pitta

Noun

pita f

  1. pita (piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels)
    Hypernym: pieczywo
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

pita

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of pity

Further reading

  • pita in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pita in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • pita in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

pita m (plural pitas)

  1. pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)
    Synonyms: pão sírio, pão árabe

Etymology 2

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

  1. Furcraea foetida, a fibrous, ornamental plant of the Americas
    Synonym: piteira
  2. agave (any plant of the genus Agave)
    Synonyms: agave, piteira
  3. pita (fibre obtained from agaves)
  4. feminine of puto
  5. (slang, Portugal) jailbait

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pita

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

Noun

pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)

  1. pie (a type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling)
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pita (Cyrillic spelling пита)

  1. third-person singular present of pitati

Slovene

Etymology

From Greek πίτα (píta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pìːta/

Noun

píta f

  1. pie (type of pastry)

Inflection

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpita/ [ˈpi.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ita
  • Syllabification: pi‧ta

Etymology 1

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

  1. century plant (Agave americana)
    Synonym: (Latin America) maguey
  2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
Descendants
  • → Catalan: pita
  • → English: pita

Etymology 2

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

  1. pita (flat bread pouch)
    Synonym: pan de pita

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pita

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

Further reading

  • “pita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pita (infinitive kupita)

  1. to pass, exceed, surpass
  2. (euphemistic) to die
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Verbal derivations:
    • Applicative: -pitia
    • Causative: -pitisha
    • Passive: -pitiwa
    • Reciprocal: -pitiana
    • Reduplicative: -pitapita
    • Stative: -pitika
  • Nominal derivations:
    • mpitaji

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ta
  • IPA(key): /ˈpita/, [ˈpi.tɐ]

Noun

pita (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)

  1. intense, strong or eager desire
    Synonym: pithaya
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ta
  • IPA(key): /piˈtaʔ/, [pɪˈtaʔ]

Noun

pitâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)

  1. low-lying land; lowland; watery land

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