Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary
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   1) tōcai tōcai (p. 311)

3542 Ta. tōcai a kind of rice-cake. Ma. dōśa a cake baked on an iron plate. Ka. dōse a holed, i.e. spongy, cake of rice-flour, uddu, etc., baked on a potsherd or iron plate. Koḍ. do·se a flat rice-cake. Tu. dōsè a cake of rice-flour. Te. dōse a kind of cake. / Cf. Skt. dhosaka-, dośā- id. (P. K. Gode, Indian Linguistics 16. 226-31). DED 2920.