भुट्टा

Etymology
, from, from , from. An aspirated -ṭh- would be expected from -ṣṭ-, but the unaspirated form is probably from conflation with the reflex of. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Originally meant any fried or roasted foodstuff in Indo-Aryan languages, only near-universally changing to mean maize or corn after the colonial introduction of the plant (compare the similar development in ).

Noun

 * 1) corncob, roasted corncob, ear of corn
 * 2) maize, corn