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. — Yorwba
Наш плов стоит четыре юаня. — Hellerick
Наш плов коштує чотири юані. — bicolino34
FeuDRenais · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
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. — bicolino34
ruНаш плов стоит четыре юаня. — Hellerick
deUnser Pilaw kostet vier Yuan. — Yorwba
So does this restaurant have pilaf?
ruЗначит, в этом ресторане есть плов? — odexed
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 synonyms- rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes:pilaffpilaupilaw
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.