chawl

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

Noun

[edit]

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
    • 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India[1]:
      I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
    • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:
      Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.

Anagrams

[edit]

Welsh

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

chawl

  1. Aspirate mutation of cawl (soup).

Mutation

[edit]
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cawl gawl nghawl chawl
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.