pita

See also: Pita, PITA, píta, pitá, Pîta, and pită

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”).

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

bread pouch used for making sandwiches

• Chinese:

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• Czech: pita chléb m
• Finnish: pitaleipä (fi), pita
• German: Pita f
• Greek: πίτα (el) f (píta)
• Hebrew: פיתה‏‎ (he) f (pita)

• Hungarian: pita (hu)
• Persian: پیتا‏‎ (pitâ)
• Polish: pita (pl) f
• Portuguese: pita (pt)
• Russian: пи́та (ru) f (píta), лава́ш (ru) m (laváš)
• Turkish: pide (tr)

Etymology 2

Spanish

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pita in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• TAPI

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Asturian

Noun

pita f (plural pites)

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

Synonyms

• gallina

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Finnish

Noun

pita

1. pita

Declension

Inflection of pita (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pita	pitat
genitive		pitan	pitojen
partitive		pitaa	pitoja
illative		pitaan	pitoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pita	pitat
accusative	nom.	pita	pitat
	gen.	pitan
genitive		pitan	pitojen pitainrare
partitive		pitaa	pitoja
inessive		pitassa	pitoissa
elative		pitasta	pitoista
illative		pitaan	pitoihin
adessive		pitalla	pitoilla
ablative		pitalta	pitoilta
allative		pitalle	pitoille
essive		pitana	pitoina
translative		pitaksi	pitoiksi
instructive		—	pitoin
abessive		pitatta	pitoitta
comitative		—	pitoineen

Synonyms

• pitaleipä

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Guaraní

Verb

pita

1. smoke

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Indonesian

Noun

pita

1. ribbon

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲita]

Participle

pita

1. nominative singular feminine of pity

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲita]

• Audio

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Noun

pita f

1. pita

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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
2. agave (any plant of the genus Agave)
3. pita (fibre obtained from agaves)

Synonyms

• (Furcraea foetida): piteira
• (agave): agave, piteira

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish pite), from Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”). Balkanic grecism, compare Romanian pită, Bulgarian пита (pita, “loaf”), Albanian pite (“pie”).

Noun

pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)

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

Declension

Declension of pita

	singular	plural
nominative	pita	pite
genitive	pite	pita
dative	piti	pitama
accusative	pitu	pite
vocative	pito	pite
locative	piti	pitama
instrumental	pitom	pitama

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Slovene

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish pite), from Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpìːta/
• Tonal orthography: píta

Noun

píta f (genitive píte, nominative plural píte)

1. pie (type of pastry)

Declension

Declension of píta (feminine, a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	píta	píti	píte
accusative	píto	píti	píte
genitive	píte	pít	pít
dative	píti	pítama	pítam
locative	píti	pítah	pítah
instrumental	píto	pítama	pítami

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Spanish

Noun

pita f (plural pitas)

1. century plant (Agave americana)

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.

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Swahili

Verb

pita

1. to pass