kwati

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noun

A soup of mixed sprouted beans.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounkwati (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA soup of mixed sprouted beans.

    Special foods may be given during the postnatal period: kwati (beans and meat), dahi-chura (curd and beaten rice with curry meat), and gudpak (a sweet cake, rich in calories made with flour, clarified butter, cashews, and coconut).

    2019, Melva Craft-Blacksheare, “Transcultural Perspectives in Childbearing”, in Margaret Andrews, Joyceen S. Boyle, John Collins, editors, Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care, 8th edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN

Origin

  1. newती
  2. newक्वा
  3. newक्वाती
  4. Englishkwati

From Newar क्वाती (kwātī), a compound of Newar क्वा (kwā) (hot) + Newar ती (tī) (soup).

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