مٹاپا

Urdu

Alternative forms

• موٹاپا (moṭāpā)

Etymology

From موٹا (moṭā, “fat”) +‎ ـپا (-pā).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mʊ.ʈɑː.pɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: مو‧ٹا‧پا

Noun

مُٹاپا • (muṭāpā) m (Hindi spelling मुटापा)

1. fatness; plumpness (ie. the state of being fat)

   Synonym: موٹاپَن (moṭāpan)

2. (pathology) obesity
3. volume (ie. size)

Declension

Declension of مٹاپا
	singular	plural
direct	مُٹاپا (muṭāpā)	مُٹاپے (muṭāpe)
oblique	مُٹاپے (muṭāpe)	مُٹاپوں (muṭāpõ)
vocative	مُٹاپے (muṭāpe)	مُٹاپو (muṭāpo)

Derived terms

• مُٹاپا چَڑھْنا (muṭāpā caṛhnā, “to grow fat”)

Further reading

More information

• “مٹاپا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مٹاپا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 566
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مٿاپا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 998
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مٿاپا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “متَاپا”, 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) “muṭāpā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press