dosa

dosa

See also: Dosa, dośa, dōsa, dösä, Doša, Dósa, Dóša, and Đoša

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊsə/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊsə/
  • (Indic) IPA(key): /d̪osɑ/, (proscribed) /ɖosɑ/
  • (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) IPA(key): /d̪osa(j)/, /d̪osə/

Noun

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.
    Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
    The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.
    • 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
      In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
    • 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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Albanian

Noun

dosa

  1. inflection of dosë:
    1. definite nominative singular
    2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

French

Verb

dosa

  1. third-person singular past historic of doser

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Iban

Etymology

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dosa

  1. sin

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdosa/ [ˈdo.sa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: do‧sa

Noun

dosa (plural dosa-dosa)

  1. sin

Derived terms

  • berdosa (sinful)
  • pendosa (sinner)

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dosa

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

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Javanese

Noun

dosa

  1. sin

Romanization

dosa

  1. romanization of ꦢꦺꦴꦱ

Malay

Etymology

    Borrowed from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈdosa/ [ˈdo.sa]
    • Rhymes: -a
    • Hyphenation: do‧sa

    Noun

    dosa (Jawi spelling دوسا, plural dosa-dosa or dosa2)

    1. sin

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Indonesian: dosa
    • Iban: dosa
    • Maranao: dosa
    • Tagalog: dusa (suffering)
    • Tausug: dusa

    Further reading

    Maranao

    Etymology

    From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

    Noun

    dosa

    1. sin

    Northern Sami

    Determiner

    dōsa

    1. illative singular of dōt

    Pali

    Alternative forms

    Etymology 1

    From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa). The Pali root is dus .

    Noun

    dosa m

    1. depravity
    2. fault, defect, flaw, sin
    Declension

    Etymology 2

    From Sanskrit द्वेष (dveṣa).

    Noun

    dosa m

    1. anger
    2. hatred
    Declension

    References

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

    Portuguese

    Verb

    dosa

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

    Swedish

    Etymology

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

    Noun

    dosa c

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

    Declension

    Declension of dosa
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite dosa dosas
    definite dosan dosans
    plural indefinite dosor dosors
    definite dosorna dosornas

    Derived terms

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