pilaf
A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a…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.
» Our pilaf is four yuan.
Unser Pilaw kostet vier Yuan.
Наш плов стоит четыре юаня.
Наш плов коштує чотири юані.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Pilaw
пловplov, пила́вpiláv
пловplov
- rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Examples
23 sentencesOur pilaf is four yuan.
Наш плов коштує чотири юані.
ruНаш плов стоит четыре юаня.
deUnser Pilaw kostet vier Yuan.
So does this restaurant have pilaf?
ruЗначит, в этом ресторане есть плов?
Today, I want to cook pilaf.
I usually eat pilaf with chopsticks.
I wonder if this restaurant has pilaf.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (piBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀼𑀮𑀸𑀕 (*pulāga), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”). Doublet of pulao.
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Forms
plural: pilafsSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable