chota

See also: Chota, chotá, chòta, chóta, and c̈hota

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hindi छोटा (choṭā, “small”).

Adjective

chota (not comparable)

  1. (India, obsolete) Small; younger.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 393:
      Jemdanee announced to me that she was in a family way, expressing her earnest desire that it might prove ‘a chuta William Sahib’.
    • 1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work:
      I tell this to the Chota Sahib.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃota/ [ˈt͡ʃo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: cho‧ta

Noun

chota f (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar, Uruguay) semen, cum
    • Te dije que quería que trajeras mucha chota, no muchachita. - I told you I wanted you to bring a lot of cum, not a girl in her puss! ("John Salchichón Rambo", parody by the Uruguayan Internet comedian El Bananero, 2008)
    Synonyms: leche, (El Salvador) chilguete, (Spain) corrida
  2. (dated, slang, derogatory, El Salvador) the police institution, especially the military police before the 1992 Peace Accords
    Synonym: (El Salvador) jura
  3. (slang, Puerto Rico) snitch
  4. (vulgar, Rioplatense) penis, cock
Derived terms

Noun

chota f (plural chotas)

  1. female equivalent of choto

Verb

chota

  1. inflection of chotar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Swahili

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Verb

-chota (infinitive kuchota)

  1. to scoop, to ladle

Conjugation
Conjugation of -chota
Positive present -nachota
Subjunctive -chote
Negative -choti
Imperative singular chota
Infinitives
Positive kuchota
Negative kutochota
Imperatives
Singular chota
Plural choteni
Tensed forms
Habitual huchota
Positive past positive subject concord + -lichota
Negative past negative subject concord + -kuchota
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nachota)
Singular Plural
1st person ninachota/nachota tunachota
2nd person unachota mnachota
3rd person m-wa(I/II) anachota wanachota
other classes positive subject concord + -nachota
Negative present (negative subject concord + -choti)
Singular Plural
1st person sichoti hatuchoti
2nd person huchoti hamchoti
3rd person m-wa(I/II) hachoti hawachoti
other classes negative subject concord + -choti
Positive future positive subject concord + -tachota
Negative future negative subject concord + -tachota
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -chote)
Singular Plural
1st person nichote tuchote
2nd person uchote mchote
3rd person m-wa(I/II) achote wachote
other classes positive subject concord + -chote
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sichote
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngechota
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singechota
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalichota
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalichota
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -achota)
Singular Plural
1st person nachota twachota
2nd person wachota mwachota
3rd person m-wa(I/II) achota wachota
m-mi(III/IV) wachota yachota
ji-ma(V/VI) lachota yachota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chachota vyachota
n(IX/X) yachota zachota
u(XI) wachota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwachota
pa(XVI) pachota
mu(XVIII) mwachota
Perfect positive subject concord + -mechota
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshachota
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -jachota
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kichota
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipochota
Consecutive kachota / positive subject concord + -kachota
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kachote
Object concord (indicative positive)
Singular Plural
1st person -nichota -tuchota
2nd person -kuchota -wachota/-kuchoteni/-wachoteni
3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mchota -wachota
m-mi(III/IV) -uchota -ichota
ji-ma(V/VI) -lichota -yachota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kichota -vichota
n(IX/X) -ichota -zichota
u(XI) -uchota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kuchota
pa(XVI) -pachota
mu(XVIII) -muchota
Reflexive -jichota
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -chota- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -chotaye -chotao
m-mi(III/IV) -chotao -chotayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -chotalo -chotayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chotacho -chotavyo
n(IX/X) -chotayo -chotazo
u(XI) -chotao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -chotako
pa(XVI) -chotapo
mu(XVIII) -chotamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -chota)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yechota -ochota
m-mi(III/IV) -ochota -yochota
ji-ma(V/VI) -lochota -yochota
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chochota -vyochota
n(IX/X) -yochota -zochota
u(XI) -ochota see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kochota
pa(XVI) -pochota
mu(XVIII) -mochota
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
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