Editing Pakora (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''pakoṛā'' is derived from [[Sanskrit]] पक्ववट, ''pakvavaṭa'',<ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary |editor=R. S. McGregor |editor-link=R. S. McGregor |year=1997 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-864339-5 |page=588}}</ref> a compound of ''pakva'' ('cooked') and ''[[Vada (food)|vaṭa]]'' ('a small lump') or its derivative ''vaṭaka'', 'a round cake made of [[legume|pulse]] fried in [[oil]] or [[ghee]]'.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary |last=Monier-Williams |first=Monier |author-link=Monier Monier-Williams |year=1995 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |location=[[New Delhi]] |isbn=81-208-0065-6 |page=914 |url=http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/index.html |access-date=30 June 2010}}</ref> The word ''Bhajji'' is derived from the [[Sanskrit]] word ''Bharjita'' meaning ''fried''.<ref>[https://www.learnsanskrit.cc/translate?search=bharjita&dir=au Sanskrit Dictionary-Bharjita]. Learn Sanskrit. Retrieved 2 April 2025.</ref>

Some divergence of transliteration may be noted in the third consonant in the word. The sound is a hard 'da' in the [[Telugu language]] and the 'ra' sound would be an incorrect pronunciation. The sound is the [[retroflex flap]] {{IPAblink|ɽ}}, which is written in [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]] with the letter ड़, and in [[Urdu alphabet|Urdu]] with the letter ڑ.

However, in the [[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration]], the Hindi letter ड़ is transliterated as <[[ṛ]]>, popular or non-standard transliterations of Hindi use <d> for this sound, because etymologically, it derives from ड {{IPAslink|ɖ}}. The occurrence of this consonant in the word ''pakora'' has given rise to two common alternative spellings in English: ''pakoda'', which reflects its [[etymology]], and ''pakora'', which reflects its [[phonology]].