پاتا

Pashto

Alternative forms

  • پاته (pātá), پاتو (pātó) (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dari فَاتِحَه (fātiha, funeral, requiem), the sense of "funeral" evolving from the earlier sense of "funeral prayer" in Classical Persian, from Arabic فَاتِحَة (fātiḥa, beginning, introduction). Doublet of فاتحه.

Noun

پاتا • (pātā́)

  1. funeral, requiem
  2. funeral prayer