# mita
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmita]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ita
* Hyphenation: mi‧ta

### Adjective

mita (accusative singular mitan, plural mitaj, accusative plural mitajn)
* mythical

#### Related terms

* mito (“myth”)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.ta/
* Homophones: mitas, mitât

### Verb

mita
* third-person singular past historic of miter

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈmita/ [ˈmi.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: mi‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mongondow [Term?].

#### Noun

mita (plural mita-mita)
* a place to put sago made of bamboo or rattan, shaped like an inverted cone, usually with rope

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mita (plural mita-mita)
* Acronym of minyak tanah.

### Further reading

* “mita” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

mita
* Rōmaji transcription of みた

## Portuguese
### Verb

mita
* inflection of mitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Quechua
### Noun

mita
* Alternative spelling of mit'a

#### Declension
## Swahili
### Alternative forms

* meta

### Etymology

Borrowed from English metre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

mita class IX (plural mita class X)
* metre

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmita/ [ˈmiː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: mi‧ta

#### Verb

mita (complete nita, progressive ninita, contemplative pipita, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜆ) (obsolete)
* Apheretic form of pumita (infinitive)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈmitaʔ/ [ˈmiː.t̪ɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -itaʔ
* Syllabification: mi‧ta

#### Verb

mità (complete nita, progressive ninita, contemplative kikita, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜆ) (obsolete)
* Apheretic form of kumita (infinitive)
** 1933, Francisco Balagtas, Pinagdaanang buhay ni Florante at Laura sa kahariang Albania: kinuha sa madlang "cuadro historico" o pinturang kinalalarawanan ng mga pangyayari nang unang panahon sa imperio ng Gresia‎, Llagan at Sanga:Pinigil ang lakad at nagtanaw-tanaw anaki'y ninita ng pagpahingahan.He paused awhile, his eyes in quest, seemingly looking for a place whereon to rest.

### Further reading

* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 831.
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English meter.

### Noun

mita
* meter

## Volapük
### Noun

mita
* genitive singular of mit

## Yoruba
### Etymology

Borrowed from English metre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mí.tà/

### Noun

mítà
* meter, metre (unit of measurement, 100 cm)

#### Hyponyms

* kìlómítà (“kilometre”)
* sẹ̀ǹtímítà (“centimetre”)

#### Derived terms

* igi mítà (“metre stick”)
* kíùbù mítà (“cubic metre”)
* ọ̀pá mítà (“metre rule”)
* súkúà mítà (“square metre”)
* òdiwọ̀n mítà (“metric units of measurement”)

### References

* National Language Centre (1987) A Vocabulary of Primary Science and Mathematics in Nine Nigerian Languages, volumes 1 - Fulfilde, Izon and Yoruba, Enugu, Nigeria: Federal Ministry of Education National Language Centre; Fourth Dimension Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117