बिरयानी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بریانی (biryānī), from بریان (biryān, “roast”) (from برشتن (birištan, “to roast”)) + the suffix ـی (-ī). Cognate with Assamese বিৰিয়ানী (biriani), Bengali বিরিয়ানী (biriẏani), Marathi बिर्याणी (biryāṇī), Gujarati બિરયાની (biryānī), Punjabi ਬਿਰਿਆਨੀ (biriānī) / بریانی (breyānī), Malayalam ബിരിയാണി (biriyāṇi).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bɪɾ.jɑː.niː/, [bɪɾ.jäː.niː]

Noun

बिरयानी • (biryānī) f (Urdu spelling بریانی)

1. biryani (dish of spiced rice)
   • January 2019, Sarita, Delhi Press, page 107:

     लगभग 2 घंटे बाद सारा घर ही उसकी भीषण तैयारी से बन रही बिरयानी की गवाही दे रहा था. हौल में प्याज लहसुन के छिलके पौलिथीन में पड़े थे. अदरक के छिलके चेस की गोटियां बने टेबल पर चिपके ...

     lagbhag 2 ghaṇṭe bād sārā ghar hī uskī bhīṣaṇ taiyārī se ban rahī biryānī kī gavāhī de rahā thā. haul mẽ pyāj lahsun ke chilke paulithīn mẽ paṛe the. adrak ke chilke ces kī goṭiyā̃ bane ṭebal par cipke ...

     After about 2 hours, the entire itself house was witnessing the grueling preparation of her biryani. In the hall, onion-garlic peels were lying in polythene. Ginger peels like chess pieces were stuck on the table;...

Declension

Declension of बिरयानी (fem ī-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बिरयानी biryānī	बिरयानियाँ biryāniyā̃
oblique	बिरयानी biryānī	बिरयानियों biryāniyõ
vocative	बिरयानी biryānī	बिरयानियो biryāniyo

Descendants

• → English: biryani, baryani, biriani
• → Malayalam: ബിരിയാണി (biriyāṇi)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बिरयानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• “बिरयानी”, in Collins Gem Hindi-English Dictionary, Collins, 2011, →ISBN
• “बिरयानी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.