चावल

Hindi

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
  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.ʋəl/, [t͡ʃäː.ʋɐl]

Noun

चावल • (cāval) m (Urdu spelling چاول)

  1. rice

Declension
Declension of चावल (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct चावल
cāval		 चावल
cāval
oblique चावल
cāval		 चावलों
cāvalõ
vocative चावल
cāval		 चावलो
cāvalo

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Holonyms

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,
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