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petha

petha noun: a North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.

petha: a North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous...
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Noun

petha (plural pethas)

  1. A North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.

petha meaning in Hindi and Punjabi

petha in Hindi

petha
पेठा peṭhā

petha in Punjabi

petha
ਪੇਠਾ peṭhā

Forms of petha

pluralpethas

Origin of petha

Borrowed from Hindi पेठा (peṭhā, “a winter melon; also, the sweet made from this”).

Questions about petha

What does petha mean?
Petha means a North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.
What is petha in Hindi?
Petha in Hindi is पेठा (peṭhā). See Petha meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is petha?
Petha is a noun.
What is the plural of petha?
The plural of petha is pethas.

Words near petha in the dictionary

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  2. petfoods
  3. petfree
  4. PETG
  5. PEth
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  7. Petham
  8. pethanol
  9. pethas
  10. pether
  11. Petherick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: petha (page history and authors); पेठा (Hindi) (page history and authors); ਪੇਠਾ (Punjabi) (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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