pilaf

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

From Turkish pilav, from Persian پلاو‎ (pelâv)[1], from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin.[2]

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.

• Some have described it as desecration, but tribal chairman Charlie Vaughn dismisses his critics as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs". - The world at a glance: Grand Canyon, Arizona, The Week, Issue 605, page 8.

pilaf m

1. pilaf

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

• פילאףֿ‎ (Hebrew orthography spelling)

pilaf m (plural pilafes)

1. pilaf

• pilafe

pilaf m (uncountable)

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

From Turkish pilav.

pilaf n (plural pilafuri)

1. pilaf, pilaff, pilau

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