pita

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pita

▶noun N. Amer. variant spelling of pitta1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pitta1 /ˈpɪtə/ (also pitta bread, N. Amer. pita)

▶noun flat, hollow slightly leavened bread which can be split open to hold a filling.

– origin mod. Gk, lit. ‘cake or pie’.

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pitta2 /ˈpɪtə/

▶noun a small ground-dwelling thrush-like bird with brightly coloured plumage and a very short tail, found in the Old World tropics. [Genus Pitta: many species.]

– origin C19: from Telugu piṭṭa ‘(young) bird’.