anarsa

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noun

A sweet pastry made with rice, jaggery, poppy seeds and milk.

OriginHindi अनरसा →
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Meanings

nounanarsa (plural anarsas)

plural anarsas

  1. IndiaA sweet pastry made with rice, jaggery, poppy seeds and milk.

    From scrumptious karanjis to ghee-laden anarsas and spiral chaklis, making sweets and savouries during Diwali has been a long-standing tradition.

    2012 November 13, Reema Gehi, “Mithai as health tonic”, in Times of India

Origin

  1. Hindiअनरसा
  2. Englishanarsa

Borrowed from Hindi अनरसा (anarsā).

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