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pelaw

pelaw is the obsolete form of pilaf.

Meaning of pilaf

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.
    • My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.1952, Cothburn O’Neal, chapter 1, in Master of the World (Avon; N158), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1967, →OCLC, book 1, page 17

Proper noun capitalized: Pelaw

Pelaw

  1. A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2962).

Words formed from pelaw

Questions about pelaw

What does pelaw mean?
Pelaw means a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2962).
What is pelaw the obsolete form of?
Pelaw is the obsolete form of pilaf.
What part of speech is pelaw?
Pelaw is a proper noun.

Words near pelaw in the dictionary

  1. Pelasgic
  2. Pelasgoi
  3. Pelasgus
  4. pelau
  5. pelaus
  6. pelaw
  7. Pelaw Main
  8. pelB
  9. Pelc
  10. Pelcastre
  11. Pelcastres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pelaw (page history and authors); Pelaw (page history and authors); pilaf (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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