• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈpɪtə/,/ˈpiːtə/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈpiːtə/
• Rhymes:-ɪtə,-iːtə
• Homophone:PETA(US)
• Homophones:Peter,peter(non-rhotic)

FromGreekπίτα(píta,“pie”), more atpizza.Doublet ofpide andpizza.

• pitta
• pita bread,pitta bread

pita (countable anduncountable,pluralpitasorpites)

2. A piece ofpita bread; aflatbread pouch used for makingsandwiches such asgyros orfalafels.
   • 1991, Georgia Lyras, Rita Lazarakis, “Filo”, inYes You Can Cook Greek! Elegant But Easy Greek Cooking, Olathe, Kan.: Cookbook Publishers,→ISBN,page vi:

     There is a wide variety ofpites, small triangles of butter laden crispy filo dough, voluptuously filled with cheeses, vegetables or spiced meats.

   • 1995, Vefa Alexiadou, “Cuisine and Greek Tradition”, inGreek Cuisine, 3rd edition, Thessaloniki: Vefa Alexiadou,→ISBN,page 4:

     A sweet smell of cheese and milkpites permeates the air of the homes of Greek housewives who prepare thepites according to the tradition of their forefathers.

   • 2002 February,Richard Sterling, Georgia Dacakis, Kate Reeves, “Psomi (Bread)”, inGreece (World Food), Footscray, Vic.:Lonely Planet Publications,→ISBN, “Staples & Specialities” section,page30:

     Most oftenpites are made with filo dough, but certainly not always. They can be filled with anything and everything, and they are.

   • 2017,Juli Berwald, “In Medusa’s Blood”, inSpineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone, New York, N.Y.:Riverhead Books,→ISBN, “Medusa” section,page278:

     They servedpita, my old nemesis. I ordered one, and it arrived oozing with hummus and studded with bright green falafel. It was horribly delicious.

• pita peach

Borrowed fromSpanishpita(“century plant”).

pita (countable anduncountable,pluralpitas)

1. Afiber obtained from theAgave americana and related species, used for makingcordage andpaper.
2. Theplant which yields the fiber.

   Synonyms:century plant,maguey,American aloe

• Pait,TAPI

pita f (pluralpites)

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

• gallina

• pitín
• piteru

• Hyphenation:pi‧ta
• IPA^(key):/piˈtaʔ/ [piˈtaʔ]

pitâ

1. (anatomy,childish)vagina ofyounggirls

   Synonyms:buray,putay,buday,pipi

pita

1. morning

   Coordinate terms:udto,apon,gabi

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈpi.tə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈpi.ta]

Borrowed fromSpanishpita(“century plant”).

pita f (pluralpites)

1. century plant

   Synonym:atzavara

2. pita(fiber obtained fromAgave americana)

Borrowed fromGreekπίτα(píta).

pita f (pluralpites)

1. pita(flat bread pouch)

• “pita”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “pita”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025.
• “pita” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pita” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

FromProto-Bantu*-píta. Cognate withSwahili-pita.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.ta/

-pita (infinitivekupíta)

1. togo

   Synonym:kuvaya

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative:-pitira
  • Causative:-pititsa
  • Reduplicative:-pitapita
  • Repetitive:-pitanso

• Nominal derivations:
  • wopita(“goer”)

• IPA^(key):[ˈpɪta]

pita f

1. pita

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita

1. inflection ofpít:
   1. femininesingularpassiveparticiple
   2. neuterpluralpassiveparticiple

• “pita”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “pita”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

FromGreekπίτα(píta).

• IPA^(key):/ˈpitɑ/,[ˈpit̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes:-itɑ
• Syllabification^(key):pi‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key):pi‧ta

pita

1. pita

• pitaleipä

• “pita”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

• apit,pati

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpita̝/

pita f (pluralpitas)

1. younghen

   Synonym:pola

2. hen

   Synonym:galiña

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

• pitiño
• pito

FromSpanishpita, from an American language.^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ˈpita̝/

pita f (pluralpitas)

1. century plant

   Synonyms:agave,piteira

2. pita(fiber obtained fromAgave americana)
3. pita(the plant which yields the fiber)

• piteira

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita

1. inflection ofpitar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “pita”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pita”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pita”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pita”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pita”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

• IPA^(key):[piˈta]
• Rhymes:-a
• Hyphenation:pi‧ta

pita

1. tosmoke

This verb needs aninflection-table template.

FromFrenchplus tard(“later”).

• IPA^(key):/pita/

pita

1. later

Inherited fromMalaypita, fromPortuguesefita, fromLatinvitta.

• IPA^(key):/pi.ta/

pita

1. ribbon
2. exciseseal
3. band
   1. (physics,computing) a part of the electromagnetic spectrum

• “pita” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.ta/
• Rhymes:-ita
• Hyphenation:pì‧ta

pita f (pluralpite)

1. pita(type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonym:pane arabo

• patì,tipa

pita

1. Romanization ofꦥꦶꦠ

pita

1. dirt

• IPA^(key):[ˈpʲita]

pita

1. nominativesingularfeminine ofpity

pita

1. land;earth

Unknown, probably affixedhita(“benefit, welfare”) +‎pa-.

• IPA^(key):/pi.ta/
• Rhymes:-ta
• Homophones:pita,pīta,pitā
• Hyphenation:pi‧ta

pita

1. drunk

pita

1. drink
2. food

• >? Javanese:ꦥꦶꦠ(pita)

• "pita" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson,Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

pita

1. vocativesingular ofpitar(“father”)

• pati

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ita
• Syllabification:pi‧ta
• Homophone:Pita

Perhapsborrowed fromGreekπίτα(píta).Doublet ofpizza.

• pitta

pita f

1. pita(piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels)

   Hypernym:pieczywo

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita

1. femininenominative/vocativesingular ofpity

• pita inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pita in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pita in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed fromGreekπίτα(píta), fromByzantine Greekπίτα(píta,“pie”).Doublet ofpizza.

pita m (pluralpitas)

1. pita(a type of slightly leavened flatbread)

   Synonyms:pão sírio,pão árabe

pita f (pluralpitas)

1. Furcraea foetida, a fibrous, ornamental plant of the Americas

   Synonym:piteira

2. agave(any plant of the genusAgave)

   Synonyms:agave,piteira

3. pita(fibre obtained from agaves)
4. feminine ofputo
5. (slang,Portugal)jailbait

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita

1. inflection ofpitar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

Borrowed fromGreekπίτα(píta).

pȉta f (Cyrillic spellingпи̏та)

1. pie (a type ofpastry that consists of an outer crust and afilling)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita (Cyrillic spellingпита)

1. third-personsingularpresent ofpitati

FromGreekπίτα(píta).

• IPA^(key):/pìːta/

píta f

1. pie (type of pastry)

• IPA^(key):/ˈpita/[ˈpi.t̪a]
• Rhymes:-ita
• Syllabification:pi‧ta

Unknown, possibly misheard from an original American Indian name.

pita f (pluralpitas)

1. century plant (Agave americana)

   Synonym:(Latin America)maguey

2. pita(fiber obtained fromAgave americana)

• → Catalan:pita
• → English:pita

Borrowed fromGreekπίτα(píta).

pita f (pluralpitas)

1. pita(flat bread pouch)

   Synonym:pan de pita

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pita

1. inflection ofpitar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “pita”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Friederici, Georg (1960)Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen;53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co.,→DOI, pages512b–513a

FromProto-Bantu*-píta. Cognate withChichewa-pita.

• Audio(Kenya):

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-pita (infinitivekupita)

1. topass,exceed,surpass
2. (euphemistic) todie

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:fa

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpitaji

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈpita/[ˈpiː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-ita
• Syllabification:pi‧ta

pita (Baybayin spellingᜉᜒᜆ)

1. intense,strong oreagerdesire

   Synonym:pithaya

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/piˈtaʔ/[pɪˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes:-aʔ
• Syllabification:pi‧ta

pitâ (Baybayin spellingᜉᜒᜆ)

1. low-lyingland;lowland;wateryland

• pait,pati,atip,tapi