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Kombucha

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means a fizzy, fermented tea beverage made using a culture of bacteria and yeast
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Stage 1 of 2
kombucha
Japanese · 1900s
"a fermented tea drink"
possibly from a mistranslation, though used in Japanese for the fermented tea drink
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Stage 2 of 2
kombucha
English · 1944
"a fizzy, fermented tea beverage"
adopted directly for the fizzy, fermented tea beverage
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