ка́ша

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1.
porridge, kasha, cooked cerealfood
На за́втрак я ем овся́ную ка́шу.
For breakfast I eat oat porridge.
The staple Russian dish of boiled grain; often named by the grain: манная каша (semolina), гречневая каша (buckwheat).
2.
jumble, mess, muddle
У меня́ в голове́ по́лная ка́ша.
My head is a complete muddle.
Figurative; often каша в голове 'a muddle in one's head'.

Examples

Мама варит перловую кашу на завтрак.
Mom is cooking pearl barley porridge for breakfast.
Бабушка сварила кашу в чугунке
Grandmother cooked porridge in a cast-iron pot.
Малыш причмокивал, кушая кашу.
The little boy smacked his lips as he ate his porridge.
Ри́совая ка́ша легко перева́ривается.
Rice gruel is easy to digest.
Повар сдобрил кашу маслом.
The cook enriched the porridge with butter.
Малыш перемазал лицо кашей за завтраком.
The toddler got porridge all over his face at breakfast.
В сказке горшочек сам варил кашу.
In the fairy tale, the little pot cooked porridge by itself.
Каша присохла к дну кастрюли.
The porridge had dried onto the bottom of the pot.