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–noun

any of various flour-and-egg food preparations of Italian origin, made of thin, unleavened dough and produced in a variety of forms, usually served with a sauce and sometimes stuffed.

[Origin: 1870–75; < It < LL. See paste

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n.

Unleavened dough, made of wheat flour, water, and sometimes eggs, that is molded into any of a variety of shapes and boiled.
A prepared dish containing pasta as its main ingredient.

[Italian, from Late Latin, paste, pastry cake; see paste¹.]

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pasta

1874, from It. pasta, from L.L. pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste," from Gk. pasta "barley porridge," probably originally "a salted mess of food," from neut. pl. of pastos (adj.) "sprinkled, salted," from passein "to sprinkle."

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pasta
noun
1.	a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
2.	shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg

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pasta [ˈpӕstə, (American) ˈpa:-] noun

a dough used in Italian cooking for making spaghetti, macaroni etc

Arabic:	عَجينة الباستا لِلمَعْكرونه
Chinese (Simplified):	加油脂的面团, 意大利面食
Chinese (Traditional):	加油脂的面團, 義大利麵食
Czech:	těsto
Danish:	pasta
Dutch:	pasta
Estonian:	makaronitainas
Finnish:	pasta
French:	pâtes
German:	die Pasta
Greek:	ζυμαρικό
Hungarian:	tészta
Icelandic:	pasta
Indonesian:	pasta
Italian:	pasta

Japanese:	パスタ
Korean:	파스타(달걀을 섞은 가루 반죽을 재료로 한 이탈리아 요리)
Latvian:	makaronu mīkla
Lithuanian:	makaronų tešla
Norwegian:	pasta
Polish:	ciasto makaronowe
Portuguese (Brazil):	massa
Portuguese (Portugal):	massa
Romanian:	paste
Russian:	тесто для макаронных изделий
Slovak:	cesto
Slovenian:	testenine
Spanish:	pasta
Swedish:	pasta
Turkish:	hamur işi