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Sita

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsiːtə//

A goddess, the consort of Rāma.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A goddess, the consort of Rāma.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

    It is only this late in the day, and possibly only in Willesden, that you can find best friends Sita and Sharon, constantly mistaken for each other because Sita is white (her mother liked the name) and Sharon is Pakistani (her mother thought it best — less trouble).

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit सीता (sītā, “furrow”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).