پلو

See also: بلو and تلو

Pashto

Noun

پلو • (transliteration needed) ?

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Persian

Etymology

From earlier Classical Persian پِلَاوْ (pilāw) / پَلَاوْ (palāw), borrowed from Hindustani पुलाव (pulāv) / پُلاؤ (pulāv), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka, “lump of boiled rice”).

The term is said to be of Dravidian origin; compare Kannada ಪುೞ್ಗಿ (puḻgi, “a rice dish”), Malayalam പുഴുങ്ങുക (puḻuṅṅuka, “to be boiling”), Tamil புழுக்கல் (puḻukkal, “cooked rice”), and Telugu పులగము (pulagamu, “a dish made with rice and lentils”).

Compare पुलाक (pulāka)'s inhertied descendants Gujarati પુલાવ (pulāv) and Punjabi ਪੁਲਾਉ (pulāu) / پُلاؤ (pulāu).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pu.law]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.läw]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.läw]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰʊ.läw]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰu.läw]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰo.low]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.läw]

Readings
Classical reading?	pulaw
Dari reading?	palaw
Iranian reading?	polow
Tajik reading?	palav

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Noun

Dari	پلو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	палав, палов

پلو • (polow) (plural پلوها (polow-hâ))

1. pilaf (a dish of boiled rice then steamed with other ingredients)

Descendants

• پِلَاوْ (pilāw):
  • → Azerbaijani: plov
  • → Bashkir: былау
  • →? Gujarati: પલાવ (palāv)
  • → Kazakh: палау (palau)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پلاو (pilav)
    • Turkish: pilav
    • → Albanian: pilaf
    • → Armenian: փլավ (pʻlav)
    • → English: pilaf
    • → Macedonian: пилаф (pilaf)
    • → Romanian: pilaf
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pìlāv
    • → Slovak: pilaf
• → Bengali: পোলাও (pōlaō)
• → Georgian: ფლავი (plavi)
• → Uyghur: پولۇ (polu)

See also

• ته‌دیگ (tah-dig)
• چلو (čelow, “plain cooked rice”)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “پلو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پلو”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pulāka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 470
• Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “4315”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.