pita
pronunciation
How to pronounce pita in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce pita in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
Word Origin
- pita (n.)
- "thick, flat bread," 1951, from Modern Hebrew pita or Modern Greek petta "bread," perhaps from Greek peptos "cooked," or somehow connected to pizza (q.v.).
Example
- 1. Pita ! It 's so good to have you back .
- 2. His parents were the sky god dyaus pita and the earth goddess prthivi ;
- 3. Which means that 300 centuries ago , fred and wilma might have had a kind of prehistoric pita bread on the menu .
- 4. Pita : a big , sad bear .
- 5. You like pita bread ?