پلاو

Ottoman Turkish

پلاو

Alternative forms

• پیلاو (pilav)

Etymology

Borrowed into Old Anatolian Turkish from Persian پلاو (pelâv, palâv), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புறுக்கல் (puṟukkal, “cooked rice”).

Noun

پلاو • (pilav)

1. pilaf, a dish made by browning rice in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth

Derived terms

• باش پلاوی (baş pilavı, “rice cooked with sheep's head”)
• بالق پلاوی (balık pilavı, “rice stewed with fish”)
• صوسز پلاو (susız pilav, “pilaf done in a close vessel”)
• طاوق پلاو (tavuk pilavı, “pilaf cooked with chicken”)
• طراق پلاوی (tarak pilavı, “pilaf with scallops”)
• پلاوجی (pilavcı, “maker or vender of pilaf”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: pilav
• → Albanian: pilaf
• → Armenian: փլավ (pʻlav)
• → English: pilaf
• → Macedonian: пилаф (pilaf)
• → Romanian: pilaf
• → Serbo-Croatian: pìlāv
• → Slovak: pilaf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pilav”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3854
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پلاو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 323
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Oryza”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1224
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پلاو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 873
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pilav”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پلاو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 451

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pi.lɑːw]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.lɑːw]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.lɑːw]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰɪ.lɑːw]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰi.läw]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.lɒːv]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰi.lɔw]

Readings
Classical reading?	pilāw
Dari reading?	pilāw
Iranian reading?	pelâv
Tajik reading?	pilov

Noun

پلاو • (pelâv)

1. Alternative form of پلو (polow)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “پلاو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پلاو”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press