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• dosha, dosai

語源

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdəʊsə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdoʊsə/
• (South Asia) IPA: /d̪osɑ/, (proscribed) /ɖosɑ/
• (Tamil Nadu, Kerala) IPA: /d̪osa(j)/, /d̪osə/

名詞

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, →ISSN:

     The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.

アナグラム

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