# pita
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈpiːtə/
* Rhymes: -ɪtə, -iːtə
* Homophone: PETA (US)
* Homophones: Peter, peter (non-rhotic)

### Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza. Doublet of pide and pizza.

#### Alternative forms

* pitta
* pita bread, pitta bread

#### Noun

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

##### Derived terms

* pita peach

##### Related terms

* fanouropita

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

#### Noun

pita (countable and uncountable, plural pitas)
* A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
* The plant which yields the fiber.
    Synonyms: century plant, maguey, American aloe

### Anagrams

* Pait, TAPI

## Asturian
### Noun

pita f (plural pites)
* hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))

#### Synonyms

* gallina

#### Derived terms

* pitín
* piteru

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pi‧ta
* IPA: /piˈtaʔ/ [piˈtaʔ]

### Noun

pitâ
* (anatomy, childish) vagina of young girls
    Synonyms: buray, putay, buday, pipi

## Buhi'non Bikol
### Noun

pita
* morning
    Coordinate terms: udto, apon, gabi

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpi.ta]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”).

#### Noun

pita f (plural pites)
* century plant
    Synonym: atzavara
* pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

#### Noun

pita f (plural pites)
* pita (flat bread pouch)

### Further reading

* “pita” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pita”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɪta]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pita f
* pita

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

pita
* inflection of pít:
** feminine singular passive participle
** neuter plural passive participle

### Further reading

* “pita”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “pita”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Greek πίτα (píta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpitɑ/, [ˈpit̪ɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -itɑ
* Hyphenation: pi‧ta

### Noun

pita
* pita

#### Declension

Possessive forms of pita (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pitani
pitani
accusative
nom.
pitani
pitani
gen.
pitani
genitive
pitani
pitojeni pitaini $^{rare}$
partitive
pitaani
pitojani
inessive
pitassani
pitoissani
elative
pitastani
pitoistani
illative
pitaani
pitoihini
adessive
pitallani
pitoillani
ablative
pitaltani
pitoiltani
allative
pitalleni
pitoilleni
essive
pitanani
pitoinani
translative
pitakseni
pitoikseni
abessive
pitattani
pitoittani
instructive
comitative
—pitoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pitasi
pitasi
accusative
nom.
pitasi
pitasi
gen.
pitasi
genitive
pitasi
pitojesi pitaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
pitaasi
pitojasi
inessive
pitassasi
pitoissasi
elative
pitastasi
pitoistasi
illative
pitaasi
pitoihisi
adessive
pitallasi
pitoillasi
ablative
pitaltasi
pitoiltasi
allative
pitallesi
pitoillesi
essive
pitanasi
pitoinasi
translative
pitaksesi
pitoiksesi
abessive
pitattasi
pitoittasi
instructive
comitative
—pitoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pitamme
pitamme
accusative
nom.
pitamme
pitamme
gen.
pitamme
genitive
pitamme
pitojemme pitaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
pitaamme
pitojamme
inessive
pitassamme
pitoissamme
elative
pitastamme
pitoistamme
illative
pitaamme
pitoihimme
adessive
pitallamme
pitoillamme
ablative
pitaltamme
pitoiltamme
allative
pitallemme
pitoillemme
essive
pitanamme
pitoinamme
translative
pitaksemme
pitoiksemme
abessive
pitattamme
pitoittamme
instructive
comitative
—pitoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pitanne
pitanne
accusative
nom.
pitanne
pitanne
gen.
pitanne
genitive
pitanne
pitojenne pitainne $^{rare}$
partitive
pitaanne
pitojanne
inessive
pitassanne
pitoissanne
elative
pitastanne
pitoistanne
illative
pitaanne
pitoihinne
adessive
pitallanne
pitoillanne
ablative
pitaltanne
pitoiltanne
allative
pitallenne
pitoillenne
essive
pitananne
pitoinanne
translative
pitaksenne
pitoiksenne
abessive
pitattanne
pitoittanne
instructive
comitative
—pitoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
pitansa
pitansa
accusative
nom.
pitansa
pitansa
gen.
pitansa
genitive
pitansa
pitojensa pitainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
pitaansa
pitojaan pitojansa
inessive
pitassaan pitassansa
pitoissaan pitoissansa
elative
pitastaan pitastansa
pitoistaan pitoistansa
illative
pitaansa
pitoihinsa
adessive
pitallaan pitallansa
pitoillaan pitoillansa
ablative
pitaltaan pitaltansa
pitoiltaan pitoiltansa
allative
pitalleen pitallensa
pitoilleen pitoillensa
essive
pitanaan pitanansa
pitoinaan pitoinansa
translative
pitakseen pitaksensa
pitoikseen pitoiksensa
abessive
pitattaan pitattansa
pitoittaan pitoittansa
instructive
comitative
—pitoineen pitoinensa :

#### Synonyms

* pitaleipä

#### Derived terms

* pitaleipä

### Further reading

* “pita”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* apit, pati

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpita̝/

#### Noun

pita f (plural pitas)
* young hen
    Synonym: pola
* hen
    Synonym: galiña

##### Derived terms

* Pita
* pita cega
* pita de río
* pita do monte

##### Related terms

* pitiño
* pito

### Etymology 2

From Spanish pita, from an American language.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpita̝/

#### Noun

pita f (plural pitas)
* century plant
    Synonyms: agave, piteira
* pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)
* pita (the plant which yields the fiber)

##### Derived terms

* piteira

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pita
* inflection of pitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* “pita”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pita”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “pita”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [piˈta]
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: pi‧ta

### Verb

pita
* to smoke

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French plus tard (“later”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pita/

### Adverb

pita
* later

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay pita, from Portuguese fita, from Latin vitta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi.ta/

### Noun

pita
* ribbon
* excise seal
* band
** (physics, computing) a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

#### Derived terms

* berpita
* memita

### Further reading

* “pita” 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.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ta/
* Rhymes: -ita
* Hyphenation: pì‧ta

### Noun

pita f (plural pite)
* pita (type of slightly leavened flatbread)
    Synonym: pane arabo

### Anagrams

* patì, tipa

## Javanese
### Romanization

pita
* Romanization of ꦥꦶꦠ

## Limos Kalinga
### Noun

pita
* dirt

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʲita]

### Participle

pita
* nominative singular feminine of pity

## Lubuagan Kalinga
### Noun

pita
* land; earth

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi.ta/
* Rhymes: -ta
* Homophones: pita, pīta, pitā
* Hyphenation: pi‧ta

### Adjective

pita
* drunk

### Noun

pita
* drink
* food

#### Descendants

* >? Javanese: ꦥꦶꦠ (pita)

### Further reading

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀺𑀢 (Brahmi script)
* पित (Devanagari script)
* পিত (Bengali script)
* පිත (Sinhalese script)
* ပိတ (Burmese script)
* ปิต or ปิตะ (Thai script)
* ᨷᩥᨲ (Tai Tham script)
* ປິຕ or ປິຕະ (Lao script)
* បិត (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄨𑄖 (Chakma script)

### Noun

pita
* vocative singular of pitar (“father”)

### Anagrams

* pati

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: pi‧ta
* Homophone: Pita

### Etymology 1

Perhaps borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta). Doublet of pizza.

#### Alternative forms

* pitta

#### Noun

pita f
* pita (piece of pita bread; a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels)
    Hypernym: pieczywo

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

pita
* feminine nominative/vocative singular of pity

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.tɐ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta), from Byzantine Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”). Doublet of pizza.

#### Noun

pita m (plural pitas)
* pita (a type of slightly leavened flatbread)
    Synonyms: pão sírio, pão árabe

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

pita f (plural pitas)
* Furcraea foetida, a fibrous, ornamental plant of the Americas
    Synonym: piteira
* agave (any plant of the genus Agave)
    Synonyms: agave, piteira
* pita (fibre obtained from agaves)
* feminine of puto
* (slang, Portugal) jailbait

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pita
* inflection of pitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

#### Noun

pȉta f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏та)
* pie (a type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pita (Cyrillic spelling пита)
* third-person singular present of pitati

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Greek πίτα (píta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pìːta/

### Noun

píta f
* pie (type of pastry)

#### Inflection
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpita/ [ˈpi.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ita
* Syllabification: pi‧ta

### Etymology 1

Unknown, possibly misheard from an original American Indian name.

#### Noun

pita f (plural pitas)
* century plant (Agave americana)
    Synonym: (Latin America) maguey
* pita (fiber obtained from Agave americana)

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: pita
* → English: pita

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek πίτα (píta).

#### Noun

pita f (plural pitas)
* pita (flat bread pouch)
    Synonym: pan de pita

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pita
* inflection of pitar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pita”, in Diccionario 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, pages 512b–513a

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-pita (infinitive kupita)
* to pass, exceed, surpass
* (euphemistic) to die
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -pita :
| Positive present | -napita |
| Subjunctive | -pite |
| Negative | -piti |
| Imperative singular | pita |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupita |
| Negative | kutopita |
Imperatives :
| Singular | pita |
| Plural | piteni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupita |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipita |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupita |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapita |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapita |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipite |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepita |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepita |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipita |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipita |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepita |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapita |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japita |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipita |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopita |
| Consecutive | kapita / positive subject concord + -kapita |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapite |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

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

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

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

#### Noun

pita (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)
* intense, strong or eager desire
    Synonym: pithaya

##### Derived terms

* pitahin
* pumita

##### Related terms

* hangad
* layon
* nais
* nasa

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

pitâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜆ)
* low-lying land; lowland; watery land

### Anagrams

* pait, pati, atip, tapi