different between dish vs chana

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissh, disch, from Old English dis? (“plate; bowl; dish”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk (“table; dish”), from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and disk.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?sh, IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

dish (plural dishes)

1. A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Judges v. 25

     She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

2. The contents of such a vessel.

3. (metonymically) A specific type of prepared food.
4. (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.

5. (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.

6. (slang) A sexually attractive person.
   • 1993, Westwood Studios, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos, Virgin Games:

     Have you seen the new apothecary? I think her name is Sadie. What a dish!

7. The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.

8. A hollow place, as in a field.
9. (mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
10. (mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
11. (slang) Gossip

Synonyms

• (vessel): plate
• (contents): dishful, plate, plateful
• (sexually attractive person): babe, fox

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: dis

Translations

Verb

dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)

2. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
3. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.

5. (slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.

Derived terms

• dish out
• dish up

See also

• plate

Anagrams

• HIDs, HSDI, SHID, shid

English

Alternative forms

• chaná
• channa

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (can?), from Sanskrit ??? (ca?aka).

Noun

chana (usually uncountable, plural chanas)

1. (India, cooking) A dish principally made from chickpeas or chickpea paste.
2. (India) Chickpeas.

Aka-Bea

Noun

chana

1. woman; (before a name) Mrs

Garo

Etymology 1

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Verb

chana (transitive)

1. to put on the fire, have on the fire (of a cooking pot)

Etymology 2

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Verb

chana (transitive)

1. to count
2. to track, follow the tracks (as when hunting animals)

Irish

Noun

chana m sg

1. Lenited form of cana.

Verb

chana

1. Lenited form of cana.

Middle Irish

Noun

chana m

1. Lenited form of cana.

Polish

Noun

chana m

1. genitive singular of chan
2. accusative singular of chan

Portuguese

Etymology

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Noun

chana f (plural chanas)

1. (geography) savanna (tropical grassland with scattered trees)
2. (informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

Synonyms

• (savanna): savana, anhara (Angola)
• (woman's genitalia): See here

Spanish

Etymology

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Noun

chana f (plural chanas)

1. (Chile, slang) Term applied to a lower?class woman not desired for a longer relationship

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-chana (infinitive kuchana)

1. to tear, to separate
2. to comb

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Stative: -chanika (“to be torn”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /??ana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /??a?na/, /??ana/

Verb

chana

1. Aspirate mutation of cana.

Mutation

Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-châna

1. (transitive) to recognize
2. to hit the mark

Inflection

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