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From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

Dosa-chutney-sambhar

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.

type of pancake

dosa

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

dosa

  1. third-person singular past historic of doser

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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

dosa

  1. sin

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

dosa (plural dosa-dosa)

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

dosa

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

dosa

  1. sin

dosa

  1. Romanization of ꦢꦺꦴꦱ

Borrowed from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

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

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

  1. sin

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • pendosa [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
  • berdosa [stative / habitual] (beR-)
  • Indonesian: dosa
  • Iban: dosa
  • Maranao: dosa
  • Tagalog: dusa (suffering)
  • Tausug: dusa

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

dosa

  1. sin

dōsa

  1. illative singular of dōt

Alternative scripts

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

dosa m

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

From Sanskrit द्वेष (dveṣa).

dosa m

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

dosa

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

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

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