چلو

Pashto

Etymology

Compare to Persian چلو (čelow, “rice”), itself borrowed from an Indic language, [1]derived from Prakrit.[2] Compare Urdu چاوَل (cāval) / Hindi चावल (cāval, “rice”), Punjabi چَول (caul) / ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), and Odia ଚାଉଳ (cauḷô).

Noun

چلو • (transliteration needed) ?

  1. plain cooked rice

References
  1. Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir,
  2. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāmala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Persian
Saffron-topped chelow with potato tah-dig

Etymology

Borrowed from an Indic language.[1] Compare Hindi चावल (cāval, “rice”), Punjabi ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cauḷô); see चावल (cāval) for more.

Pronunciation
  • (Tehrani) IPA(key): [tʃʰelo]
  • IPA(key): [tʃʰeloʊ̯]
  • IPA(key): [tʃʰælæʊ̯]

Noun

چلو • (čelow) (plural چلوها (čelow-hâ))

  1. plain cooked rice

See also

References
  1. Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir,
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