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murgh

murgh noun: chicken.

Noun

murgh (uncountable)

  1. chicken
    • Our other entrée was murgh massalam ($3.50), half a chicken of fall-off-the-bone tenderness in a rich brown cream sauce garnished with a whole hard-boiled egg.1976, Chicago, volume 25, page 125
    • But of those bold curries, butter chicken, or murgh makhani, is the richest of all.2014, Laura Siciliano-Rosen, Delhi Food and Travel Guide

Forms of murgh

alternative formmurg

Origin of murgh

From Classical Persian مرغ (murġ).

Questions about murgh

What does murgh mean?
Murgh means chicken.
What part of speech is murgh?
Murgh is a noun.

Words near murgh in the dictionary

  1. Murgeni
  2. murgeon
  3. murgeoned
  4. murgeoning
  5. murgeons
  6. murgh
  7. murgha
  8. Murguia
  9. Murguias
  10. murha
  11. murhas

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