Submitted 12/18/24. "Nosh" was borrowed into English to mean "eat, snack" from Yiddish "noshn" (or נאָש in Hebrew orthography), meaning "nibble", which is based on the Middle High German "naschen" with the same meaning.
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Submitted 12/18/24. "Chai Chenak Cafe" is a Paikistani restaurant -- the name is written in Urdu (Arabic) script as چائی چناک کیفے on the small panel to the left. Chai (meaning "spiced tea") is a borrowing into English from Arabic or Russian, but originated in China as 茶 (or chá, in pinying). meaning "tea". "Cafe" as a coffee house, was borrowed into English from French, based on Italian "caffe" for the drink, which was borrowed from Turkish or Arabic. "Chenak" seems to be a type of tea associated with Tharparkar, Pakistan.
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