ਛੋਲਾ

Punjabi

Etymology

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Particularly: “From Prakrit [script needed] (chollaï, “skins”), from unattested Sanskrit *छोल्ल् (choll, “to peel, skin”) (from the way chickpeas are dehulled from their pods), probably borrowed from Dravidian.^[1]”

Noun

ਛੋਲਾ • (cholā) m

chickpea

Related terms

ਛੋਲੀਆ m (cholīā, “green gram”)

References

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*chōll”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press