dosa

See also: dōsa and dösä

English

Alternative forms

• dosha, dosai

Etymology

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

Dosa-chutney-sambhar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊsə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊsə/

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.
   • 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.

Translations

type of pancake

• Burmese: တိုရှေ (my) (tuihre)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: dosa (fr) m
• Gujarati: ઢોસા (ḍhosā)
• Hindi: डोसा (hi) m (ḍosā), दोसा (hi) m (dosā)
• Kannada: ದೋಸೆ (kn) (dōse)
• Konkani: पोळो (poḷo)
• Malay: tose
• Malayalam: ദോശ (ml) (dōśa)
• Marathi: डोसा m (ḍosā)
• Polish: dosa (pl) f
• Punjabi: ਡੋਸਾ m (ḍosā)
• Sanskrit: दोसक (dosaka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: தோசை (ta) (tōcai)
• Telugu: దోస (te) (dōsa)

Anagrams

• AOSD, ados, DAOs, daos, odas, soda, Soda, ADOS, sado-

French

Verb

dosa

1. third-person singular past historic of doser

Anagrams

• ados, sado, soda

Iban

Etymology

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dosa

1. sin

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdosa/ [ˈdo.sa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: do‧sa

Noun

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

1. sin

Derived terms

• berdosa
• pendosa

 

• dosa asal
• dosa berat
• dosa ringan

 

Further reading

• “dosa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

Anagrams

• soda

Javanese

Noun

dosa

1. sin

Romanization

dosa

1. Romanization of ꦢꦺꦴꦱ

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a

Noun

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

1. sin

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

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

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “dosa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

Alternative scripts

• 𑀤𑁄𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• दोस (Devanagari script)
• দোস (Bengali script)
• දොස (Sinhalese script)
• ဒေါသ or ၻေႃသ (Burmese script)
• โทส or โทสะ (Thai script)
• ᨴᩮᩤᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂທສ or ໂທສະ (Lao script)
• ទោស (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄮𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

Noun

dosa m

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

Declension

Declension table of "dosa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	doso	dosā
Accusative (second)	dosaṃ	dose
Instrumental (third)	dosena	dosehi or dosebhi
Dative (fourth)	dosassa or dosāya or dosatthaṃ	dosānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dosasmā or dosamhā or dosā	dosehi or dosebhi
Genitive (sixth)	dosassa	dosānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dosasmiṃ or dosamhi or dose	dosesu
Vocative (calling)	dosa	dosā

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit द्वेष (dveṣa).

Noun

dosa m

1. anger
2. hatred

Declension

Declension table of "dosa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	doso	dosā
Accusative (second)	dosaṃ	dose
Instrumental (third)	dosena	dosehi or dosebhi
Dative (fourth)	dosassa or dosāya or dosatthaṃ	dosānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dosasmā or dosamhā or dosā	dosehi or dosebhi
Genitive (sixth)	dosassa	dosānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dosasmiṃ or dosamhi or dose	dosesu
Vocative (calling)	dosa	dosā

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

      Räck mig (tv-)dosan

      Hand me the (TV) remote

      Synonym: fjärrkontroll

   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

• förgreningsdosa
• grendosa
• snusdosa
• speldosa
• turbodosa

See also

• ask
• dos

References

• dosa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dosa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dosa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• osad, soda