balti

From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, “pail”), originally coined by Birmingham restaurateur Afzal Butt because English people had difficulty pronouncing karahi, the name of the dish used for cooking this food.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːl.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɒlti

a chicken balti dish in a restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland

balti (countable and uncountable, plural baltis)

1. (uncountable) A style of Pakistani cooking in which the food is cooked in an iron pan having two handles.
   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 136:

     For in time, balti became an enduring British cultural entity all of its own—even as Jim Davidson and his fellow bullies lapsed into obscurity.

2. (countable) A dish cooked in this style.

• balti house

• Talib, batil, -bital, bilat

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒlti]
• Hyphenation: bal‧ti
• Rhymes: -ti

balti (not comparable)

1. Baltic (of or pertaining to the Baltic region or the Baltic Sea)
2. Baltic (of or pertaining to any of the Baltic languages)
3. Baltic (of or pertaining to the Balts)

balti (plural baltiak)

1. Balt (inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states)

• balti in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

balti m (Balts; chiefly plural)

1. nominative/vocative plural of balts

balti

1. nominative plural masculine of balts

balti

1. white, whitish; adverbial form of balts

   balti noberzts galds ― a table scrubbed white (= very clean)

balti m (plural baltis)

1. balti