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horchata

/(h)ɔːɹˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

horchata noun: a sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.

horchata: a sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water,...
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Noun

horchata (countable and uncountable, plural horchatas)

  1. A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.
    • Manufacturers from the villages surrounding the capital of the region came each day to the city of Valencia with carts pulled by donkeys to sell fresh horchata, tiger nuts and barley water.2011, Miguel-Angel Galindo, Domingo Ribeiro, Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics: New Perspectives, Practices, and Policies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 66

horchata meaning in Hindi

horchata in Hindi

sweet beverage
ओर्चाता orcātā

Forms of horchata

pluralhorchatas

Origin of horchata

Borrowed from Spanish horchata, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *hordeata (“(drink, food) made of barley”), from hordeum (“barley”), either via Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source), or via Italian orzata. Doublet of orgeat (“almond syrup”) and orzo (“barley-shaped pasta”).

Words formed from horchata

Questions about horchata

What does horchata mean?
Horchata means a sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.
What is horchata in Hindi?
Horchata in Hindi is ओर्चाता (orcātā). See Horchata meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is horchata?
Horchata is a noun.
How do you pronounce horchata?
Horchata is pronounced /(h)ɔːɹˈt͡ʃɑːtə/.
What is the plural of horchata?
The plural of horchata is horchatas.

Words near horchata in the dictionary

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  3. Horbury
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  6. horchata
  7. horchatas
  8. Horchs
  9. horcolin
  10. horcrux
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