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chula

chula noun: a hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.

Noun

chula (plural chulas)

  1. (Bangladesh, India) A hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.
    • After conducting feed back surveys, it was established that success will not depend on maximum number of chulhas installed but also on after installation care and follow up measures to ensure that skill transfer in installation and operation of chulhas has appropriately taken place and any other...1996, Rahul Mudgal, Economic Dimensions of Rural Development, page 228
    • When the basket was full, she carried it back and emptied it next to the outdoor chula where she did most of her cooking.2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, page 6

chula meaning in Marathi and Bengali

chula in Marathi

chula, earthen stove
चूल cūl

chula in Bengali

উনুন, চুলা

Forms of chula

pluralchulas
alternative formchoola
alternative formchoolah
alternative formchulha

Origin of chula

From Hindi चूल्हा (cūlhā), Bengali চুলা (cula).

Phrases with chula

Questions about chula

What does chula mean?
Chula means a hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.
What is chula in Marathi?
Chula in Marathi is चूल (cūl). See Chula meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is chula?
Chula is a noun.
What is the plural of chula?
The plural of chula is chulas.

Words near chula in the dictionary

  1. chukrum
  2. chukrums
  3. Chukuang
  4. Chukwu
  5. Chukwus
  6. chula
  7. Chula Vista
  8. chulan
  9. chulas
  10. Chulavamsa
  11. chulengo

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chula (page history and authors); चूल (Marathi) (page history and authors); chula (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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