چتا

Urdu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit चिता (citā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪ.t̪ɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: چِ‧تا

Noun

چِتا • (citā) f (Hindi spelling चिता)

1. pyre

Declension

Declension of چتا
	singular	plural
direct	چِتا (citā)	چِتائیں (citāẽ)
oblique	چِتا (citā)	چِتاؤں (citāõ)
vocative	چِتا (citā)	چِتاؤ (citāo)

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “چتا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 518
• Platts, John T. (1884) “چتا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 423
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چتا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 249
• “چتا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “چتا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• “چتا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.