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cottah

cottah is the alternative form of katha.

Meaning of katha

Noun (1)

katha (countable and uncountable, plural kathas)

  1. (countable) The recitation of a Hindu religious story.
    • A list of the common themes narrated in a katha would comprise of the kidnapping of a girl, battle, separation and epic and puranic events.2013, Deepa Sreenivas, Sculpting a Middle Class, page 50
  2. (uncountable) Such storytelling considered as a genre.

Noun (2)

katha (plural kathas)

  1. A unit of area used mostly for land measure in Eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, varying widely from place to place.

Forms of cottah

pluralcottahs

Questions about cottah

What is cottah the alternative form of?
Cottah is the alternative form of katha.

Words near cottah in the dictionary

  1. cottages
  2. cottages ornés
  3. cottagey
  4. cottaging
  5. cottagy
  6. cottah
  7. cottahs
  8. Cottam
  9. Cottams
  10. cottar
  11. cottars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cottah (page history and authors); katha (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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