Dictionary

dosa en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /d̪osɑ/ (South-Asia)
• /d̪osa(j)/ Tamil Nadu, Kerala
• /ˈdəʊsə/ (UK)
• /d̪osə/ Tamil Nadu, Kerala
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdoʊsə/ (US)
• /ɖosɑ/ (South-Asia, proscribed)

Etymology

From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).

Meanings

1. A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.
   • 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. 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 141:
   • Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
   • The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.
   • 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. 2012, Meg Cotner, Food Lovers' Guide to Queens, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 173:
   • The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments. 2013 June 14, Mary Jo Murphy, “Dosas, Big and Bigger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • 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. 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:

Forms

Translations (16)

gu ઢોસા (type of pancake) · ta தோசை (type of pancake) · ml ദോശ (type of pancake) · ms thosai (type of pancake) · ms tosai (type of pancake) · hi दोसा (type of pancake) · my တိုရှေ (type of pancake) · pa ਡੋਸਾ (type of pancake) · kok पोळो (type of pancake) · sa दोसक (type of pancake) · te దోస (type of pancake) · mr डोसा (type of pancake) · ms tose (type of pancake) · kn ದೋಸೆ (type of pancake) · pl dosa (type of pancake) · fr dosa (type of pancake)