# chota
## English
### Alternative forms

* chhota, chuta

### Etymology

From Hindi छोटा (choṭā, “small”).

### Adjective

chota (not comparable)
* (India, obsolete) Small; younger.
** 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 393:
    Jemdanee announced to me that she was in a family way, expressing her earnest desire that it might prove ‘a chuta William Sahib’.
** 1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work:I tell this to the Chota Sahib.

#### Derived terms

* chota hazri
* chota peg

### Anagrams

* Choat, coath, tacho

## Galician
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɔta/ [ˈt͡ʃɔ.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Hyphenation: cho‧ta

### Noun

chota f (plural chotas)
* layer or lump of dug
    Synonym: bosta

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chota”, 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), “chota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* “chota”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “chota” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃota/ [ˈt͡ʃo.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: cho‧ta

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

chota f (uncountable)
* (vulgar, Uruguay) semen, cum
** Te dije que quería que trajeras mucha chota, no muchachita. - I told you I wanted you to bring a lot of cum, not a girl in her puss! ("John Salchichón Rambo", parody by the Uruguayan Internet comedian El Bananero, 2008)
    Synonyms: leche, chele, (El Salvador) chilguete, (Spain) corrida
* (colloquial, Rioplatense) idiot
* (colloquial, Puerto Rico) an unskilled and lazy person
* (colloquial, Cuba, Costa Rica) joker; jester
* (dated, slang, derogatory, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) the police
    Synonym: (El Salvador) jura
* (slang, Puerto Rico) snitch
    Synonym: chivato
* (vulgar, Rioplatense) penis, cock
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

##### Derived terms

* como una chota

#### Noun

chota f (plural chotas)
* female equivalent of choto

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

chota
* inflection of chotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “chota”, 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

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-chota (infinitive kuchota)
* to scoop, to ladle

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -chota :
| Positive present | -nachota |
| Subjunctive | -chote |
| Negative | -choti |
| Imperative singular | chota |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuchota |
| Negative | kutochota |
Imperatives :
| Singular | chota |
| Plural | choteni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huchota |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lichota |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuchota |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tachota |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tachota |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sichote |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngechota |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singechota |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalichota |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalichota |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mechota |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshachota |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jachota |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kichota |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipochota |
| Consecutive | kachota / positive subject concord + -kachota |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kachote |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :