تتا

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /t̪ət̪.t̪äː/
• Rhymes: -äː

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta), from Sanskrit तप्त (taptá), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be hot, warm”).

تَتّا • (tattā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਤੱਤਾ)

1. hot; warm
2. (figuratively) short-tempered; hotheaded
3. (figuratively, rare) brave; courageous
4. (figuratively, rare) stubborn, obstinate
5. ill-fated; unlucky

• تَپّݨا (tappṇā, “to heat up; become hot, heated”, verb)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

تَتّا • (tattā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਤੱਤਾ)

1. Ploughman's call to bullocks to go slightly to the right.

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “تتّا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਤੱਤਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “taptá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta), from Sanskrit तप्त (taptá), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be hot, warm”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪ət̪.t̪aː/
• Rhymes: -aː

تَتّا (tattā) m

1. hot, heated, warm

• “تتا”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 81