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Kasha

//ˈkɑʃə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name.
Noun
  1. 1
    A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. countable, uncountable

    "Some cooks add nuts as well, and I like the way their flavor complements that of the kasha and the browned onions."

  2. 2
    A kind of dry curry from Bengal. uncountable

    "She made some authentic Bengali recipes like Sukto, Mochar Ghonto, Doi Bagun, Doi Catla Maach and Chicken Kasha."

  3. 3
    A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.
  4. 4
    boiled or baked buckwheat wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Japanese 火車.

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