بیٹا

See also: بیتا

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀝 (biṭṭa), from Sanskrit बटु (baṭu, “boy, lad, chap”) or a related term. Ultimately, may have been borrowed from Munda.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /beː.ʈɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: بے‧ٹا

Noun

بیٹا • (beṭā) m (feminine بیٹی (beṭī), Hindi spelling बेटा)

1. son, boy

   Synonyms: پِسَر (pisar), فَرْزَنْد (farzand)

2. (endearing) child (any gender)

Declension

Declension of بیٹا
	singular	plural
direct	بیٹا (beṭā)	بیٹے (beṭe)
oblique	بیٹے (beṭe)	بیٹوں (beṭõ)
vocative	بیٹے (beṭe)	بیٹو (beṭo)

Further reading

• “بیٹا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بیٹا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بيٹا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بيٿا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 206
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “بيتَا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 314
• John Shakespear (1834) “بیٹا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “baṭu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 514