चावल

Hindi

Etymology

From Prakrit [script needed] (cāulā), and probably of Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin. Compare Punjabi ਚਾਵਲ (cāval), Punjabi ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), Sylheti ꠌꠣꠃꠟ (saul), Bengali চাল (cal), Assamese চাউল (saul), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cāuḷa), Rohingya soil. Related to Persian چلو (čelow), which was borrowed from an Indic language.

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑː.ʋəl/, [t͡ʃäː.ʋɐl]

Noun

चावल • (cāval) m (Urdu spelling چاول)

1. rice

Declension

Declension of चावल (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	चावल cāval	चावल cāval
oblique	चावल cāval	चावलों cāvalõ
vocative	चावल cāval	चावलो cāvalo

Hypernyms

• अनाज (anāj)

Holonyms

• धान (dhān)
• धान्य (dhānya)

Related terms

• भात (bhāt)
• अन्न (ann)
• दाना (dānā)