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kasha.

A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɑʃə/
  1. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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.

noun/ˈkɑʃə/
  1. A kind of dry curry from Bengal.

    uncountable
noun/ˈkɑʃə/
  1. A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 火車.

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