Meaning

1 senses
  1. (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

More definitions
  • rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Our pilaf is four yuan.

    Наш плов коштує чотири юані. — bicolino34

    ruНаш плов стоит четыре юаня. — Hellerick

    deUnser Pilaw kostet vier Yuan. — Yorwba

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  2. So does this restaurant have pilaf?

    ruЗначит, в этом ресторане есть плов? — odexed

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  3. Today, I want to cook pilaf.

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  4. I usually eat pilaf with chopsticks.

  5. 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 (pi

Borrowed 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: pilafs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes:pilaffpilaupilaw

See also

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