چلو
Pashto edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
چلو • (transliteration needed) ?
- plain cooked rice
References edit
- ^ Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [1]
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāmala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Persian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
چلو • (čelow) (plural چلوها (čelow-hâ))
- plain cooked rice
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [2]