کھاتا

Urdu

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá, “rule, authority”).

Alternative forms

• کَھاتَہ (khāta)

Noun

کھاتا • (khātā) m (Hindi spelling खाता)

1. account; ledger
2. registry
3. tab
4. (figurative) department

Declension

Declension of کھاتا
	singular	plural
direct	کھاتا (khātā)	کھاتے (khāte)
oblique	کھاتے (khāte)	کھاتوں (khātõ)
vocative	کھاتے (khāte)	کھاتو (khāto)

Descendants

• → Punjabi: کھاتا (khātā)

Further reading

• “کھاتا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کھاتا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کهاتہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Etymology 2

Verb

کھاتا • (khātā) (Hindi spelling खाता)

1. inflection of کھانا (khānā, “to eat”):
   1. masculine singular habitual participle
   2. masculine singular contrafactual