As a Hindi name
वोटा · noun · feminine
दासी । मजदुरनी । दाई । पोटा — Śabdasāgara
वोटा · voṭā · s.f.
A female servanṭ or slave — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1204
Cited formation "वोटा" is वोट + -आ: वोट means "(fr. next), A servant, a slave", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "वोटा" is वोटना + -आ: वोटना means "स॰ [हिं॰ ओट + करना] आड़ करना", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "वोटा" is वोट + -आ: वोट means "(fr. next), A servant, a slave", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a female servant or slave
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voṭā f. a female servant or slave, L.
voṭā f. (-ṭā) A female servant or slave. E. puṭa to contract, aff. ac, and va being substituted for pa, perhaps more correctly voṭā.
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