kalja

Etymology
From (cognate with 🇨🇬). According to one theory, possibly from earlier or, possibly from an early  language; compare 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), and if so, akin to , a later borrowing from Baltic or Germanic.

Noun

 * 1) A traditional fermented, homemade, weak table drink made of malt and sugar, closely resembling kvass; its alcohol content is between 0.8 and 2.2 %.

Usage notes

 * The difference between and kvass (a drink popular in Eastern Europe, called  or  in Finnish) is that the former is made from malt, whereas kvass is usually made of bread. Nevertheless,  is sometimes metonymically used to refer to kvass or other similar beverages in other cultures as well.
 * The use of the term to refer to beer in informal language is so common that it is now quite common to use  (strictly speaking only for homemade kalja) to refer to the other sense instead to avoid confusion.