چاول

See also: حاول

Punjabi

Noun

چاول • (cāval) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਚਾਵਲ)

  1. rice (uncooked)

Urdu

Etymology

From Prakrit [script needed] (cāulā), and probably of Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin.[1] 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 (cauḷô), Rohingya soil. Related to Persian چلو (čelow), which was borrowed from an Indic language.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

چاول • (cāval) f (Hindi spelling चावल)

  1. rice

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāmala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  2. Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir,
  • “چاول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
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