Meanings
adjectivechota (not comparable)
alternative chhota · alternative chuta
- Indianot comparableobsoleteSmall; younger.
I tell this to the Chota Sahib.
1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work1 more example
Jemdanee announced to me that she was in a family way, expressing her earnest desire that it might prove ‘a chuta William Sahib’.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 393
Origin
- Hindiछोटा“small”
- Englishchota
From Hindi छोटा (choṭā, “small”).
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