pilaf

See also: piláf

English

Alternative forms

• pilaff, pillaf, pillaff, pillaw, pilao, pilau, plov, polao, pulao, pulau

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”).

Noun

pilaf (countable and uncountable, plural pilafs)

1. A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
   • 9 Mar 2007, The Independent‎^[1]:

     Charlie Vaughn, the tribal chairman, dismissed his critics at the opening as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs".

Translations

dish

• Arabic: بِيلَاو m (bilāw)
• Armenian: փլավ (hy) (pʻlav)
• Azerbaijani: plov, aş (az)

  Cyrillic: плов

• Bashkir: былау (bılaw)
• Belarusian: плоў m (ploŭ)
• Bengali: পোলাও (bn) (pōlaō)
• Bulgarian: пилаф m (pilaf)
• Catalan: pilav m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: жуафан (řuafan)

  Mandarin: 抓飯 / 抓饭 (zh) (zhuāfàn)

• Crimean Tatar: pilav
• Czech: pilaf m
• Danish: pilaf c
• Dutch: pilaff m
• Esperanto: pilafo
• Finnish: pilahvi (fi)
• French: pilaf (fr) m
• Georgian: ფლავი (plavi)
• German: Pilaw (de) m
• Greek: πιλάφι (el) n (piláfi)
• Hebrew: פילאף m (pilaf)
• Hindi: पुलाव (hi) (pulāv)
• Hungarian: piláf (hu)
• Italian: pilaf m
• Japanese: ピラフ (ja) (pirafu)
• Kazakh: палау (palau)
• Korean: 필라프 (ko) (pillapeu), 플로프 (ko) (peullopeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پِڵاو (pillaw)

  Northern Kurdish: pilav (ku), pila (ku), girar (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: палоо (paloo), аш (ky) (aş)
• Latvian: plovs m
• Lithuanian: plovas m
• Macedonian: пилаф m (pilaf)
• Marathi: पुलाव (pulāv)
• Nogai: пылав (pılav)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pilaff m

  Nynorsk: pilaff m

• Persian: پلو (fa) (polow), پلاو (fa) (pelâv) (dated)
• Polish: pilaw (pl) m
• Portuguese: pilaf m, pilafe m
• Punjabi: ਪੁਲਾਉ m (pulāu)
• Romanian: pilaf (ro) n
• Russian: плов (ru) m (plov), пила́в (ru) m (piláv) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пилав m

  Roman: pilav (sh) m

• Slovak: pilaf m
• Slovene: plov m
• Southern Altai: плов (plov)
• Spanish: pilaf m
• Swahili: pilau (sw)
• Swedish: pilaff (sv) c
• Tajik: палов (palov)
• Tatar: пылау (tt) (pılaw)
• Turkish: pilav (tr)
• Turkmen: palow, palaw
• Ukrainian: плов m (plov)
• Urdu: پلاؤ (pulāo)
• Uyghur: پولۇ (polu)
• Uzbek: palov (uz), osh (uz)

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (pilâv, “pilaf, boiled rice prepared with butter, meat, fat, etc”).

Noun

pilaf m

1. rice boiled with salt and butter, pilaf

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish pilâv, pilav.

Noun

pilaf m inan

1. pilaf

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “pilaf”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pilaf”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

French

Noun

pilaf m (plural pilafs)

1. pilaf

Further reading

• “pilaf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ladino

Alternative forms

• פילאףֿ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

Noun

pilaf m (Latin spelling, plural pilafes)

1. pilaf

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pilafe

Etymology

From Turkish pilâv, pilav.

Noun

pilaf m (uncountable)

1. pilaf (dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو. Compare Turkish pilav.

Noun

pilaf n (plural pilafuri)

1. pilaf, pilaf, pilau

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pilaf	pilaful		pilafuri	pilafurile
genitive-dative	pilaf	pilafului		pilafuri	pilafurilor
vocative	pilafule			pilafurilor

See also

• orez