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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /?pi?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pi?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -i?t?
• Homophone: PETA (US)
• Homophone: Peter (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek ???? (píta, “pie”), more at pizza.

Alternative forms

• pita bread
• pitta
• pitta bread

Noun

pita (plural pitas)

1. A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

Noun

pita (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

Noun

pitâ

1. (anatomy) vagina of young girls

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pi.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pi.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

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.
• “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): [?p?ta]

Verb

pita

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

Finnish

Noun

pita

1. pita

Declension

Synonyms

• pitaleipä

Anagrams

• apit, pati

Galician

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pita?/

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): /?pita?/

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 main entry.

Verb

pita

1. Third-person singular (el, ela, vostede^?) present indicative of pitar
2. Second-person singular (ti) affirmative imperative of pitar

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, 2006-2016.
• “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

Indonesian

Etymology

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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

pita f (plural pite)

1. pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonym: pane arabo

Limos Kalinga

Noun

pita

1. dirt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?ita]

Participle

pita

1. nominative singular feminine of pity

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

pita

1. land; earth

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

pita

1. vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

Anagrams

• pati

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i.ta/

Etymology 1

Noun

pita f

1. pita

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

pita

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of pity

Further reading

• pita in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

pita m (plural pitas)

1. pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonyms: pão sírio, pão árabe

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)

Verb

pita

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of pitar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of pitar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Greek ???? (píta).

Noun

p?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

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

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Greek ???? (píta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pì?ta/

Noun

píta f

1. pie (type of pastry)

Inflection

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pita/, [?pi.t?a]

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 m (plural pitas)

1. pita (flat bread pouch)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pita

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pitar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pitar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pitar.

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. (euphemism) die

Conjugation

Derived terms

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

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Noun

pita

1. intense, strong or eager desire

Derived terms

• pitahin
• pumita

Related terms

• hangad
• layon
• nais
• nasa

Synonyms

• pithaya

Etymology 2

Noun

pitâ

1. low-lying land; lowland; watery land

English

Alternative forms

• pica (archaic)

Etymology

From French, from an Evenki word which Peter Simon Pallas transcribes as piika or peeka, but which cannot be found in modern dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pa?k?/
• Rhymes: -a?k?

Noun

pika (plural pikas)

1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

Derived terms

• black-lipped pika
• plateau pika

Translations

Anagrams

• Paik, Paki, kipa, paki

Basque

Etymology

From Latin pica.

Noun

pika anim

1. magpie

Alternative forms

• mika

Breton

Verb

pika

1. prick

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?ka]
• Rhymes: -?ka
• Hyphenation: pi?ka

Etymology 1

Noun

pika f

1. Obsolete form of píka (“pike”).

Declension

Derived terms

• piky
• od piky

Etymology 2

Noun

pika f

1. American pika, Ochotona princeps^{WP WSp Commons} (species within the family Ochotonidae)

Declension

Hypernyms

• (genera Vulpes and Urocyon): živo?ichové – regnum; strunatci – phylum; ?ty?nožci – superclassis; savci – class; zajícovití – order; piš?uchovití – family; piš?ucha – genus

Further reading

• pika in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pika/
• Hyphenation: pi?ka
• Rhymes: -ika

Adjective

pika (accusative singular pikan, plural pikaj, accusative plural pikajn)

1. (card games) of the suit of spades (?).

Related terms

• piko

Estonian

Adjective

pika

1. genitive singular of pikk

Finnish

Etymology

From English pika; see it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pik?/, [?pik?]
• Rhymes: -ik?
• Syllabification: pi?ka

Noun

pika

1. pika
2. (in the plural) the taxonomic family Ochotonidae

Declension

Synonyms

• piiskujänis

Anagrams

• kapi, kipa

French

Noun

pika m (plural pikas)

1. pika

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese picar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pika.

Verb

pika

1. to split
2. to stab

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pik?]
• Hyphenation: pi?ka
• Rhymes: -k?

Noun

pika (plural pikák)

1. lance

Declension

Derived terms

• pikás

Further reading

• pika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese picar.

Verb

pika

1. to chop
2. to shred

Latvian

Noun

pika f (4th declension)

1. lump
2. snowball
3. pat
4. clod
5. clump
6. chunk
7. cob
8. clot

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• piken m

Noun

pika f

1. definite feminine singular of pike

Pamosu

Noun

pika

1. ear

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Yong Lam Liaw, Pamosu Organised Phonology Data (2002)

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?k?]

Noun

pika

1. pain

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i.ka/

Noun

pika f

1. pike (a very long thrusting spear formerly used extensively by infantry)

Declension

Related terms

• pikinier
• pikinierski

See also

• gizarma
• glewia
• halabarda
• kontarion
• kopia
• korseka
• lanca
• m?ot lucere?ski
• partyzana
• rohatyna
• runka
• spisa friulska
• szponton

Noun

pika m inan

1. genitive singular of pik
2. (nonstandard, colloquial) accusative singular of pik (a spade in card games)

Further reading

• pika in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìp?ka (“to cook, to boil”).

Pronunciation

Verb

-pika (infinitive kupika)

1. To cook

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pikia
  • Causative: -pikisha
  • Passive: -pikwa
  • Reciprocal: -pikana
  • Stative: -pikika

Waray-Waray

Noun

piká

1. fist blow