dosa

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See also: dōsa and dösä

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

Dosa-chutney-sambhar

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊsə/
  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊsə/

Noun[edit]

dosa (plural dosas)

  1. A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.
    • 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 141:
      I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa, wrapped in paper, for him.
    • 2012, Meg Cotner, Food Lovers' Guide to Queens, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 173:
      These condiments are provided as something for you to dip your dosa into. The dosa wrap itself has a slight tang to it, as it is a fermented bread made from rice and lentils, and is light and delicious.
    • 2013 June 14, Mary Jo Murphy, “Dosas, Big and Bigger”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.

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French[edit]

Verb[edit]

dosa

  1. third-person singular past historic of doser

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Iban[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dosa/
  • Rhymes: -sa
  • Hyphenation: do‧sa

Noun[edit]

dosa

  1. sin

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay dosa, from Classical Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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Noun[edit]

dosa (first-person possessive dosaku, second-person possessive dosamu, third-person possessive dosanya)

  1. sin

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Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.za/
  • Rhymes: -ɔza
  • Hyphenation: dò‧sa

Verb[edit]

dosa

  1. inflection of dosare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Javanese[edit]

Noun[edit]

dosa

  1. sin

Romanization[edit]

dosa

  1. Romanization of ꦢꦺꦴꦱ

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Rhymes: -a

Noun[edit]

dosa (Jawi spelling دوسا, plural dosa-dosa, informal 1st possessive dosaku, 2nd possessive dosamu, 3rd possessive dosanya)

  1. sin

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Descendants[edit]

  • Indonesian: dosa
  • Iban: dosa
  • Maranao: dosa

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Maranao[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Noun[edit]

dosa

  1. sin

Northern Sami[edit]

Determiner[edit]

dōsa

  1. illative singular of dōt

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Noun[edit]

dosa m

  1. depravity
  2. fault, defect, flaw, sin
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Sanskrit द्वेष (dveṣa).

Noun[edit]

dosa m

  1. anger
  2. hatred
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References[edit]

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “dosa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

dosa

  1. inflection of dosar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Late Latin dosis. Compare Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk dåse, also Dutch and Afrikaans doos.

Noun[edit]

dosa c

  1. a small box with a lid
  2. a small, roughly square or rectangular piece of (technical) equipment
    1. a remote control
      Räck mig dosan
      Hand me the remote
      Synonym: fjärrkontroll
    2. a game controller (from some early game controllers being angular, extended to later controllers)
      Synonyms: spelkontroll, kontroll

Declension[edit]

Declension of dosa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative dosa dosan dosor dosorna
Genitive dosas dosans dosors dosornas

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