petha

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi पेठा (peṭhā, “a winter melon; also, the sweet made from this”).

Noun

petha (plural pethas)

1. A North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.

Anagrams

• apeth, hepta-