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mussalla

mussalla is the obsolete form of masala.

Meaning of masala

Noun

masala (countable and uncountable, plural masalas or masale)

  1. Any of many blends of spices used in Indian cuisine, most often containing cardamom, coriander, mace together with pepper, nutmeg, fennel seeds, jeera etc.
    • A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. […] Basically, it’s a juicy naan bread with an egg coating, stuffed with mutton...2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN
  2. Any dish prepared with such spices.
    • We ordered two lamb bhunas and a masala.
  3. Any powder of ground ingredients, not necessarily used in cuisine.

Forms of mussalla

pluralmussallas

Questions about mussalla

What is mussalla the obsolete form of?
Mussalla is the obsolete form of masala.

Words near mussalla in the dictionary

  1. mussal
  2. mussalchee
  3. mussalchees
  4. mussalgee
  5. mussalgees
  6. mussalla
  7. mussallas
  8. Mussalman
  9. Mussalmans
  10. Mussalmen
  11. mussals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mussalla (page history and authors); masala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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