hash

C2+ Topic:Food & Drink

US /hæʃ/ UK /hæʃ/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like hatch /tʃ/ vs /ʃ/

Meanings

1

noun
a dish of chopped cooked meat and vegetables; to chop or muddle together

She fried up a hash of leftover potatoes and corned beef.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a dish of chopped cooked... mince jumblemishmashmedley muddle

Word family

Derived forms hashedhasherhashing

Related forms hatchethachure

Etymology

From French hacher ('to chop'), from hache ('axe'), from Frankish *hapja, of Germanic origin.

hacher Middle French *hapja Proto-Germanic

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Topics

Food & Drink

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# hash

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /hæʃ/
**IPA (UK):** /hæʃ/

## Meanings
1. a dish of chopped cooked meat and vegetables; to chop or muddle together

## Examples
- She fried up a hash of leftover potatoes and corned beef.

## Synonyms
- mince
- jumble
- mishmash
- medley
- muddle

## Derived Forms
- hashed
- hasher
- hashing

## Related Forms
- hatchet
- hachure

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hacher
- Root: *hapja

## Etymology
From French hacher ('to chop'), from hache ('axe'), from Frankish *hapja, of Germanic origin.

## AI Etymology
hash comes from French hacher ('to chop'), from hache ('axe'), from Frankish *hapja, of Germanic origin. The path is chiefly one of transmission: the word passes through the named languages and forms, with each stage preserving part of the modern shape. In present English, the noun sense is "a dish of chopped cooked meat and vegetables; to chop or muddle together", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as hatchet and hachure, and in derivatives such as hashed, hasher, and hashing. Its semantic neighborhood includes mince, jumble, mishmash, and medley, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include French hacher and Proto-Germanic *hapja.

## Topics
- Food & Drink

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