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by dotancohen 1666 days ago

  > Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages.
Interestingly, in Semitic languages Kavita means writing or written things.
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In case anyone else is confused: in Sanskrit it's Ka-vi-ta (it seems), in Semitic (at least Hebrew), it's k-ti-va. So quite different.
if you take the K as a ch throat sound, it means omelette in hebrew.