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kashim

kashim noun: a traditional, large, semisubterranean men's communal house of the Yup'ik, Inuit, and Deg Hit'an Athabaskans, in which communal and ceremonial events are hosted.

Noun

kashim (plural kashims)

  1. A traditional, large, semisubterranean men's communal house of the Yup'ik, Inuit, and Deg Hit'an Athabaskans, in which communal and ceremonial events are hosted.
    • One Eskimo tale describes a girl who arrives at a kashim feast uninvited; when the building's spirit tells her that it has eyes, nose, arms, legs, and male genitals, she dashes home in fear.1990, Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton, Native American Architecture, page 204
    Synonyms:
    qasgiq, qaygiq, qargi

Synonyms of kashim

Forms of kashim

pluralkashims

Origin of kashim

Apparently a Russian [Term?] term, perhaps ultimately from Yupik qasgiq (the terms are, at least, synonymous). In Inupiaq, the term qargi is used.

Questions about kashim

What does kashim mean?
Kashim means a traditional, large, semisubterranean men's communal house of the Yup'ik, Inuit, and Deg Hit'an Athabaskans, in which communal and ceremonial events are hosted.
What part of speech is kashim?
Kashim is a noun.
What is the plural of kashim?
The plural of kashim is kashims.

Words near kashim in the dictionary

  1. kashida
  2. kashidas
  3. Kashidhoo
  4. Kashihara
  5. kashikoi
  6. kashim
  7. Kashima
  8. kashims
  9. Kashin-Beck disease
  10. Kashin-Bek disease
  11. Kashing

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