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mithai

mithai noun: sweets; confectionery.

Noun

mithai (plural mithai)

  1. (South-Asia) Sweets; confectionery.
    • Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr....2018 January 17, Shivani Vora, “A Go-To Grocery for Indian Cooks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Central to that celebration is mithai, or sweets. Mass-produced mithai are readily available online, but these five independent shops make their sweets by hand every day, offering their local South Asian communities a taste of the familiar.2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times

mithai meaning in Urdu

mithai in Urdu

mithai
مٹھائی miṭhāī

Forms of mithai

pluralmithai

Origin of mithai

From Hindi मिठाई (miṭhāī).

Questions about mithai

What does mithai mean?
Mithai means sweets; confectionery.
What is mithai in Urdu?
Mithai in Urdu is مٹھائی (miṭhāī). See Mithai meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mithai?
Mithai is a noun.
What is the plural of mithai?
The plural of mithai is mithai.

Words near mithai in the dictionary

  1. miteys
  2. Mitford
  3. Mitfordesque
  4. Mitfordian
  5. mitgehen
  6. mithai
  7. mithan
  8. mither
  9. mithered
  10. mithering
  11. mithers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mithai (page history and authors); مٹھائی (Urdu) (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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