pilaf

• pilaff, pillaf, pillaff, pillaw, pilao, pilau, plov, polao, pulao, pulau

From Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. [1][2][3] Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”).

pilaf (countable and uncountable, plural pilafs)

1. A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
   • 9 Mar 2007, The Independent‎:

     Charlie Vaughn, the tribal chairman, dismissed his critics at the opening as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs".

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (pilâv, “pilaf, boiled rice prepared with butter, meat, fat, etc”).[1]

pilaf m

1. rice boiled with salt and butter, pilaf

Borrowed from Turkish pilâv, pilav.

pilaf m inan

1. pilaf

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• pilaf in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pilaf in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

pilaf m (plural pilafs)

1. pilaf

• “pilaf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• פילאףֿ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

pilaf m (Latin spelling, plural pilafes)

1. pilaf

• pilafe

From Turkish pilâv, pilav.

pilaf m (uncountable)

1. pilaf (dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو. Compare Turkish pilav.

pilaf n (plural pilafuri)

1. pilaf, pilaf, pilau

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