pita

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

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

• pita bread
• pitta
• pitta bread

pita (plural pitas)

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

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

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.

• Pait, TAPI

pita f (plural pites)

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

• gallina

pitâ

1. (anatomy) vagina of young girls

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ta/

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

pita f (plural pites)

1. century plant

   Synonym: atzavara

2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

pita f (plural pites)

1. pita (flat bread pouch)

• “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.

pita

1. pita

• pitaleipä

• apit, pati

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpita̝/

pita f (plural pitas)

1. hen

   Synonym: galiña

• Pita
• pita cega
• pita de río
• pita do monte

• pitiño
• pito

From Spanish pita, from an American language.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpita̝/

pita f (plural pitas)

1. century plant

   Synonyms: agave, piteira

• piteira

• “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.

pita

1. smoke

Borrowed from Portuguese fita.

• IPA^(key): /pi.ta/

pita

1. ribbon

pita f (plural pite)

1. pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonym: pane arabo

pita

1. dirt

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲita]

pita

1. nominative singular feminine of pity

pita

1. land; earth

pita

1. vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲi.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

pita f

1. pita

pita

1. feminine nominative and vocative singular of pity

• pita in Polish dictionaries at PWN

pita m (plural pitas)

1. pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)

• pão sírio, pão árabe

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)

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

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

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

pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pìːta/

píta f

1. pie (type of pastry)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpita/, [ˈpit̪a]

pita f (plural pitas)

1. century plant (Agave americana)

   Synonym: maguey (Latin America)

2. pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

• Catalan: pita
• English: pita

pita m (plural pitas)

1. pita (flat bread pouch)

See the etymology of the main entry.

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.

• “pita” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

-pita (infinitive kupita)

1. to pass, exceed, surpass
2. (euphemism) die

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

pita

1. intense, strong or eager desire

• pitahin
• pumita

• hangad
• layon
• nais
• nasa

• pithaya

pitâ

1. low-lying land; lowland; watery land