mā́sara n. a partic. beverage (a mixture of yeast, grapes, &c. with the water in which rice and millet have been boiled), [KātyŚr.]; [Mahīdh.] on [VS. xix, 1] (accord. to [Sāy.] on [TBr.] ‘m. the meal of slightly parched barley mixed with sour milk or buttermilk’; accord. to [L.] ‘m. rice-gruel’).