चिता
Appearance
Hindi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit चिता (citā).
Noun
[edit]चिता • (citā) f
- pile of wood used for lighting the funeral pyre, for cremation
- c. 1800, Betal Pachisi :
- राजा की चिता तैयार हुई। सेनापति वहाँ गया और उसमें कूद पड़ा।
- rājā kī citā taiyār huī. senāpti vahā̃ gayā aur usmẽ kūd paṛā.
- The king's funeral pyre was readied. The general went and jumped in it.
- राजा की चिता तैयार हुई। सेनापति वहाँ गया और उसमें कूद पड़ा।
- (literary) a pile, heap
Declension
[edit]Declension of चिता (fem ā-stem)
Marathi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit चिता (citā).
Noun
[edit]चिता • (citā)
- a funeral pyre
Sanskrit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the root चि (ci) + -ता (-tā), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pile up”) whence also the verb चिनोति (cinoti). Cognate with Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “to pile up”) and Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ, “rank, order”).
Noun
[edit]चिता • (citā) stem, f
Declension
[edit]singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | चिता (citā́) | चिते (cité) | चिताः (citā́ḥ) |
vocative | चिते (cíte) | चिते (cíte) | चिताः (cítāḥ) |
accusative | चिताम् (citā́m) | चिते (cité) | चिताः (citā́ḥ) |
instrumental | चितया (citáyā) चिता¹ (citā́¹) |
चिताभ्याम् (citā́bhyām) | चिताभिः (citā́bhiḥ) |
dative | चितायै (citā́yai) | चिताभ्याम् (citā́bhyām) | चिताभ्यः (citā́bhyaḥ) |
ablative | चितायाः (citā́yāḥ) चितायै² (citā́yai²) |
चिताभ्याम् (citā́bhyām) | चिताभ्यः (citā́bhyaḥ) |
genitive | चितायाः (citā́yāḥ) चितायै² (citā́yai²) |
चितयोः (citáyoḥ) | चितानाम् (citā́nām) |
locative | चितायाम् (citā́yām) | चितयोः (citáyoḥ) | चितासु (citā́su) |
- ¹Vedic
- ²Brāhmaṇas
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “चिता”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 394.
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