kasha
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Definition of kasha
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.
“Some cooks add nuts as well, and I like the way their flavor complements that of the kasha and the browned onions.”
“Kristina Pankofska, a Polish exile whom Anna Petrovna paid a gold rouble a month to clean and help, arrived with a pail of hot kasha and two new eggs.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.
“Some cooks add nuts as well, and I like the way their flavor complements that of the kasha and the browned onions.”
“Kristina Pankofska, a Polish exile whom Anna Petrovna paid a gold rouble a month to clean and help, arrived with a pail of hot kasha and two new eggs.”
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(uncountable)A kind of dry curry from Bengal.
“She made some authentic Bengali recipes like Sukto, Mochar Ghonto, Doi Bagun, Doi Catla Maach and Chicken Kasha.”
“I love her chicken curry, chicken bharta, chicken kasha.”
- A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.
name
- A female given name.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ка́ша (káša, “porridge, gruel”) or Yiddish קאַשע (kashe). In Slavic languages, the term has the general meaning of groats or porridge of whatever source, but in Yiddish it became restricted to buckwheat.
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