kasha

Meanings

1. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats.

1. A kind of dry curry from Bengal.

1. A yokai that steals the corpses of those who have died as a result of accumulating evil deeds.

1. A female given name.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ка́ша (káša, “porridge, gruel”) or Yiddish קאַשע (kashe). In Slavic languages, the term has the general meaning of groats or porridge of whatever source, but in Yiddish it became restricted to buckwheat.