चावल

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Hindi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Prakrit [script needed] (cāulā), and probably of Dravidian or Austroasiatic origin.[1] Compare Punjabi ਚਾਵਲ (cāval), Punjabi ਚੌਲ (caul), Sindhi چانور (cã̄uru, “grain of rice cleansed from the husk”), Sylheti ꠌꠣꠃꠟ (saul), Bengali চাল (cal), Assamese চাউল (saul), Odia ଚାଉଳ (cauḷô), Rohingya soil. Related to Persian چلو (čelow), which was borrowed from an Indic language.[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑː.ʋəl/, [t͡ʃäː.ʋɐl]

Noun[edit]

चावल • (cāval) m (Urdu spelling چاول)

  1. rice

Declension[edit]

Declension of चावल (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct चावल
cāval 		चावल
cāval
oblique चावल
cāval 		चावलों
cāvalõ
vocative चावल
cāval 		चावलो
cāvalo

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*cāmala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ Mo'in, Mohammad (1972) “چلو”, in Moeen Encyclopedic Dictionary [فرهنگ معین] (in Persian), Tehran: Amirkabir, [1]
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