Sweetmeat of rice flour with coconut and sugar in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “sweetmeat of rice flour with coconut and sugar” in Hindi is पीठा — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
sweetmeat of rice flour with coconut and sugar
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peys-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pištás
Sanskrit पिष्ट (piṣṭa)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞 (piṭṭha)
Apabhramsa पिट्ठ (piṭṭha)
Hindi पीठा
Inherited from Apabhramsa पिट्ठ (piṭṭha) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞 (piṭṭha), from Sanskrit पि॒ष्ट (piṣṭá, “crushed, ground; flour”). Doublet of पिष्ट (piṣṭ), a tatsama. Related to पीठी (pīṭhī), पीट्ठी (pīṭṭhī). Distantly cognate with Latin pistus, whence Italian pesto, whence the doublet पेस्टो (pesṭo).
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Proto-Indo-European *peys-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pištás
Sanskrit पिष्ट (piṣṭa)
Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞 (piṭṭha)
Apabhramsa पिट्ठ (piṭṭha)
Hindi पीठा
Inherited from Apabhramsa पिट्ठ (piṭṭha) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), from Prakrit 𑀧𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞 (piṭṭha), from Sanskrit पि॒ष्ट (piṣṭá, “crushed, ground; flour”). Doublet of पिष्ट (piṣṭ), a tatsama. Related to पीठी (pīṭhī), पीट्ठी (pīṭṭhī). Distantly cognate with Latin pistus, whence Italian pesto, whence the doublet पेस्टो (pesṭo).
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