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چلو

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 𑀘𑀸𑀉𑀮 (cāula).[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 (cāuḷa).

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 (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

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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 (cāuḷa); 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 (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [2]
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