The story
- Hindi · borrowed fromपेठा“a winter melon; also, the sweet made from this”
- English todaypetha
Borrowed from Hindi पेठा (peṭhā, “a winter melon; also, the sweet made from this”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
petha
Today it means: A North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra. Full definition →
Hindi पेठा