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  • The national anthem that roused the crowd to its feet, however, began with Rossiya — svyashchennaya nasha derzhava (“Russia — our holy country”); and, save for a few Toyota and Nikon logos, all the names limned onto the ice belonged to Russian companies: Gazprom, Sogaz, Mostovik, Yasnaya Polyana.

    Exile 2008

  • The national anthem that roused the crowd to its feet, however, began with Rossiya — svyashchennaya nasha derzhava (“Russia — our holy country”); and, save for a few Toyota and Nikon logos, all the names limned onto the ice belonged to Russian companies: Gazprom, Sogaz, Mostovik, Yasnaya Polyana.

    Exile 2008

  • Jesus spoke Aramaic, bar nasha would be nonsense in this saying where the Greek is constructed to indicate a title.

    Limits of Literalism James F. McGrath 2008

  • This is the oldest general discussion of mankind in the Aramaic language, and we can see that ברנשא bar nasha is used in a general form for humanity:

    Biblical Realities? Ask My Pastor What? 2007

  • But in Africa it is traditionally used to flavor and preserve porridges and to produce popular foods such as bogobe (sour sorghum porridge) in Botswana, nasha (sour sorghum and millet porridge) in the Sudan, and obusera (sour millet porridge) in Uganda.

    Chapter 25 1996

  • "Sbchi da kasha, Pischcha nasha: cabbage soup and gruel are our food," said Rostnikov repeating the old Russian saying.

    A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

  • The objection that Christ could not have used it in Aramaic because the only similar expression was bar-nasha, which then meant only "man" -- bar having by that time lost its meaning of "son" -- is not of much weight.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Palestine in the time of Christ and as Drummond points out special meaning could be given to the word by the emphasis with which it was pronounced, even if bar-nasha had lost its primary meaning in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • The peasants could not, of course, put these conceptions into a strict legal form, but they often expressed them in their own homely laconic way by saying to their master, "Mui vashi no zemlya nasha" -- that is to say.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • Your eyes, it says i wanna dance sun le saaheba, tu hai ik nasha listen o lord, you are a intoxication hosh hai mera saara kho gaya

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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