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kashims

kashims is the plural of kashim.

Meaning of kashim

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

Questions about kashims

What is kashims the plural of?
Kashims is the plural of kashim.

Words near kashims in the dictionary

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

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