چتا

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चिता (citā).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪ.t̪ɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Hyphenation: چِ‧تا

Noun

چِتا • (citāf (Hindi spelling चिता)

  1. pyre

Declension

Declension of چتا
singular plural
direct چِتا (citā) چِتائیں (citāẽ)
oblique چِتا (citā) چِتاؤں (citāõ)
vocative چِتا (citā) چِتاؤ (citāo)

Further reading

  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “چتا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 518
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “چتا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 423
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چتا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 249
  • چتا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “چتا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • چتا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.