چلو

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Pashto

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Etymology

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Compare to Persian چلو (čelow, rice), itself borrowed from an Indic language, [1]derived from Prakrit.[2] Compare Urdu چاوَل (cāval) / Hindi चावल (cāval, rice), Punjabi چَول (caul) / ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, grain of rice cleansed from the husk), and Odia ଚାଉଳ (cauḷô).

Noun

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چلو (transliteration needed?

  1. plain cooked rice

References

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  1. ^ Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [1]
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāmala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Persian

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Saffron-topped chelow with potato tah-dig

Etymology

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Borrowed from an Indic language.[1] Compare Hindi चावल (cāval, rice), Punjabi ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, grain of rice cleansed from the husk), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cauḷô); see चावल (cāval) for more.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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چلو (čelow) (plural چلوها (čelow-hâ))

  1. plain cooked rice

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [2]