name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
kasha
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɑʃə/
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rhymes with -ɑʃə
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 SH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A kind of dry curry from Bengal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, publishing, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
boiled or baked buckwheat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hot cereal
History
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.
Borrowed from Japanese 火車.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: бутҡа (butqa) — porridge
- Belarusian: ка́ша (káša) — porridge
- Chinese Mandarin: 卡沙 (kǎshā) — porridge
- Czech: kaše — porridge
- Finnish: tattaripuuro — porridge
- French: kacha — porridge
- Georgian: ფაფა (papa) — porridge
- German: Kascha — porridge
- Hebrew: דַּיְסָה (daisá) — porridge
- Hebrew: דַּיְסָא (daisá) — porridge
- Hebrew: כֻּסֶּמֶת (kusémet) — porridge
- Hebrew: קאשה (kásha) — porridge
- Hungarian: kása — porridge
- Japanese: カーシャ (kāsha) — porridge
- Kalmyk: хаш (xaş) — porridge
- Kazakh: ботқа (botqa) — porridge
- Korean: 카샤 (kasya) — porridge
- Kyrgyz: ботко (botko) — porridge
- Kyrgyz: каша (kaşa) — porridge
- Polish: kasza — porridge
- Polish: kasza gryczana — porridge
- Portuguese: kasha — porridge
- Russian: ка́ша (káša) — porridge
- Russian: гре́чневая ка́ша (gréčnevaja káša) — porridge
- Serbo-Croatian: каша — porridge
- Serbo-Croatian: kaša — porridge
- Slovak: kaša — porridge
- Slovene: kaša — porridge
- Ukrainian: ка́ша (káša) — porridge
- Uzbek: kasha — porridge
- Uzbek: boʻtqa — porridge
- Yakut: хааһы (qaahï) — porridge
- Yiddish: קאַשע (kashe) — porridge