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chapatti

chapatti is the alternative form of chapati.

Meaning of chapati

Noun

chapati (countable and uncountable, plural chapatis)

  1. A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan.
    • Princess Jeeta fed me dozens of the hot kebabs I loved, which I coated with mango chutney and wrapped in chapati.1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 4, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 52

Forms of chapatti

pluralchapattis
alternative formchapata
alternative formchapathi
alternative formchapati
alternative formchappati
alternative formchowpatty
alternative formchupatty

Origin of chapatti

Borrowed from Hindi चपाती (capātī).

Questions about chapatti

What is chapatti the alternative form of?
Chapatti is the alternative form of chapati.

Words near chapatti in the dictionary

  1. chapatas
  2. chapathi
  3. chapathis
  4. chapati
  5. chapatis
  6. chapatti
  7. chapatties
  8. chapattis
  9. chapatty
  10. chapbook
  11. chapbooks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chapatti (page history and authors); chapati (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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