chawl
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.
Noun
editchawl (plural chawls)
- A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
- 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India[1]:
- I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
- 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:
- Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editchawl
- Aspirate mutation of cawl (“soup”).
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