بیٹا

Inherited from Middle Hindi بیٿا (byṭa),^[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀝 (biṭṭa),^[2] from Sanskrit बटु (baṭu, “boy, lad, chap”) or a related term. Ultimately, may have been borrowed from Munda.

بیٹا • (beṭā) m (feminine بیٹی (beṭī), Hindi spelling बेटा)

^ “بیٹا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bidda”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 522

“بیٹا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بيٹا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
Platts, John T. (1884) “بيٿا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 206
S. W. Fallon (1879) “بيتَا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 314
John Shakespear (1834) “بیٹا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

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