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dosa.

A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈdəʊsə/UK/ˈdoʊsə/US/d̪osɑ/South-Asia/ɖosɑ/South-Asia, proscribed
  1. A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.

    Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
    The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.
Where this word comes from

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

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