pilaf

See also: piláf

English

Alternative forms

• pilaff, pilau, plov, polao, polao, pulao

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلاو‎ (modern Turkish pilav), from Persian پلاو‎ (pelâv), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ‎ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புறுக்கல் (puṟukkal, “cooked rice”).

Noun

pilaf (countable and uncountable, plural pilafs)

1. 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.
   • 9 Mar 2007, The Independent‎^[1]:

     Charlie Vaughn, the tribal chairman, dismissed his critics at the opening as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs".

Translations

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• Arabic: بِيلَاو‎ m (bilāw)
• Armenian: փլավ (hy) (pʿlav)
• Azerbaijani: plov, aş (az)

  Cyrillic: плов

• Bashkir: былау (bïlaw)
• Belarusian: плоў m (ploŭ)
• Bengali: পোলাও (polao)
• Bulgarian: пилаф m (pilaf)
• Catalan: pilav m
• Chinese:

  Dungan: жуафан (řuafan)

  Mandarin: 抓飯 (zh), 抓饭 (zh) (zhuāfàn)

• Crimean Tatar: pilav
• Czech: pilaf m
• Danish: pilaf c
• Dutch: pilaff m
• Esperanto: pilafo
• Finnish: pilahvi (fi)
• French: pilaf (fr) m
• Georgian: ფლავი (plavi)
• German: Pilaw (de) m
• Greek: πιλάφι (el) n (piláfi)
• Hebrew: פילאף‎ m (pilaf)
• Hindi: पुलाव (hi) (pulāv)
• Hungarian: piláf (hu)
• Italian: pilaf m
• Japanese: ピラフ (ja) (pirafu)
• Kazakh: палау (kk) (palaw)
• Korean: 필라프 (ko) (pillapeu), 플로프 (ko) (peullopeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پِڵاو‎ (pillaw)

  Northern Kurdish: pilav (ku), pila (ku)

• Kyrgyz: палоо (paloo), аш (ky) (aş)

• Latvian: plovs m
• Lithuanian: plovas m
• Macedonian: пилаф m (pilaf)
• Marathi: पुलाव (pulāv)
• Nogai: пылав (pılav)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pilaff m

  Nynorsk: pilaff m

• Persian: پلو‎ (fa) (polow), پلاو‎ (fa) (pelâv) (dated)
• Polish: pilaw (pl) m
• Portuguese: pilaf m, pilafe m
• Romanian: pilaf (ro) n
• Russian: плов (ru) m (plov), пила́в (ru) m (piláv) (dated)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пилав m

  Roman: pilav (sh) m

• Slovak: pilaf m
• Slovene: plov m
• Spanish: pilaf m
• Swahili: pilau (sw)
• Swedish: pilaff (sv) c
• Tajik: палов (palov)
• Tatar: пылау (tt) (pılau)
• Turkish: pilav (tr)
• Turkmen: palow, palaw
• Ukrainian: плов m (plov)
• Urdu: پلاؤ‎ (pulāo)
• Uyghur: پولۇ‎ (polu)
• Uzbek: palov (uz), osh (uz)

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Czech

Etymology

From Turkish pilâv, pilav

Noun

pilaf m

1. pilaf

Further reading

• pilaf in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pilaf in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Ladino

Alternative forms

• פילאףֿ‎ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

Noun

pilaf m (Latin spelling, plural pilafes)

1. pilaf

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pilafe

Etymology

From Turkish pilâv, pilav

Noun

pilaf m (uncountable)

1. pilaf (dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth)

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Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پلاو‎ (modern Turkish pilav).

Noun

pilaf n (plural pilafuri)

1. pilaf, pilaff, pilau

See also

• orez