pita

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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

Pita from Greece

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

• pitta
• pita bread, pitta bread

pita (plural pitas)

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

• fanouropita

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

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.

• Pait, TAPI

pita f (plural pites)

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

• gallina

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

pitâ

1. (anatomy, childish) vagina of young girls

   Synonyms: buray, putay, buday, pipi

pita

1. morning

   Coordinate terms: udto, apon, gabi

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

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

pita f (plural pites)

1. century plant

   Synonym: atzavara

2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

pita f (plural pites)

1. pita (flat bread pouch)

• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪta]

pita f

1. pita

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita

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

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

From Greek πίτα (píta).

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

pita

1. pita

• pitaleipä

• “pita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

• apit, pati

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpita̝/

pita f (plural pitas)

1. young hen

   Synonym: pola

2. hen

   Synonym: galiña

• Pita
• pita cega
• pita de río
• pita do monte

• pitiño
• pito

From Spanish pita, from an American language.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpita̝/

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)

• piteira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita

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

• “pita”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “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.

pita

1. smoke

From French plus tard (“later”).

• IPA^(key): /pita/

pita

1. later

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

• IPA^(key): /pi.ta/

pita

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

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

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

pita f (plural pite)

1. pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonym: pane arabo

• patì, tipa

pita

1. Romanization of ꦥꦶꦠ

pita

1. dirt

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲita]

pita

1. nominative singular feminine of pity

pita

1. land; earth

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

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

pita

1. drunk

pita

1. drink
2. food

• >? Javanese: ꦥꦶꦠ (pita)

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

pita

1. vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

• pati

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ta/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: pi‧ta
• Homophone: Pita

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

• pitta

pita f

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

   Hypernym: pieczywo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of pity

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

pita m (plural pitas)

1. pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonyms: pão sírio, pão árabe

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita

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

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita (Cyrillic spelling пита)

1. third-person singular present of pitati

From Greek πίτα (píta).

• IPA^(key): /pìːta/

píta f

1. pie (type of pastry)

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

pita f (plural pitas)

1. century plant (Agave americana)

   Synonym: (Latin America) maguey

2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

• → Catalan: pita
• → English: pita

pita f (plural pitas)

1. pita (flat bread pouch)

   Synonym: pan de pita

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pita

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

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

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-pita (infinitive kupita)

1. to pass, exceed, surpass
2. (euphemistic) to die

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpitaji

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpita/ [ˈpi.tɐ]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: pi‧ta

pita (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)

1. intense, strong or eager desire

   Synonym: pithaya

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /piˈtaʔ/ [pɪˈtaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pi‧ta

pitâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)

1. low-lying land; lowland; watery land