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dosa

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English

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Etymology

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From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

 
Dosa-chutney-sambhar

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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

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Noun

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dosa

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

French

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dosa

  1. third-person singular past historic of doser

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Iban

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Etymology

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From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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

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dosa

  1. sin

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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dosa (plural dosa-dosa)

  1. sin

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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

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dosa

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

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Javanese

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Javanese writing system
Carakan ꦢꦺꦴꦱ
Pegon
Roman dosa

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa)?”

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dosa

  1. sin

Malay

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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

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

    1. sin

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    Affixed terms and other derivations

    Regular affixed derivations:

    • pendosa [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
    • berdosa [stative / habitual] (beR-)

    Descendants

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

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    • "dosa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
      (also see "dosa" at PRPM first version)

    Maranao

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    Etymology

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    From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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    dosa

    1. sin

    Northern Sami

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    Determiner

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    dōsa

    1. illative singular of dōt

    Pali

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    Etymology 1

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

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    dosa m

    1. depravity
    2. fault, defect, flaw, sin
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    Declension table of "dosa" (masculine)
    Case / NumberSingularPlural
    Nominative (first)dosodosā
    Accusative (second)dosaṃdose
    Instrumental (third)dosenadosehi or dosebhi
    Dative (fourth)dosassa or dosāya or dosatthaṃdosānaṃ
    Ablative (fifth)dosasmā or dosamhā or dosādosehi or dosebhi
    Genitive (sixth)dosassadosānaṃ
    Locative (seventh)dosasmiṃ or dosamhi or dosedosesu
    Vocative (calling)dosadosā

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    From Sanskrit द्वेष (dveṣa).

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    dosa m

    1. anger
    2. hatred
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    Declension table of "dosa" (masculine)
    Case / NumberSingularPlural
    Nominative (first)dosodosā
    Accusative (second)dosaṃdose
    Instrumental (third)dosenadosehi or dosebhi
    Dative (fourth)dosassa or dosāya or dosatthaṃdosānaṃ
    Ablative (fifth)dosasmā or dosamhā or dosādosehi or dosebhi
    Genitive (sixth)dosassadosānaṃ
    Locative (seventh)dosasmiṃ or dosamhi or dosedosesu
    Vocative (calling)dosadosā

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

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    Verb

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    dosa

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

    Swedish

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    Etymology

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

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    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

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

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