The story
- Hindi · borrowed fromसट्टा मटका“gambling pot”
- English todaysatta matka
Borrowed from Hindi सट्टा मटका (saṭṭā maṭkā, “gambling pot”), cf. English matka.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
satta matka
Today it means: an illegal form of lottery, which originally involved betting on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange, but now makes use of random numbers Full definition →
Hindi सट्टा मटका