kashim
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 15
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Definition of kashim
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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Etymology
Apparently a Russian [Term?] term, perhaps ultimately from Yupik qasgiq (the terms are, at least, synonymous). In Inupiaq, the term qargi is used.
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