raita

1. 1.

   an Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices

   Broaderside dish

Other forms of raita

plural

raitas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about raita

What does raita mean?

raita means "an Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices".

How many syllables are in raita?

raita has 2 syllables: rai-ta. The stress falls on "rai".

Is raita a common word?

raita is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.