pilaf
UK/piːlɑːf/
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Australia/pɪlɐːf/
pilaf noun: 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.
Noun
pilaf (countable and uncountable, plural pilafs)
- 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
- 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".2007 March 9, “Great divide: The fight for America's heritage”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022
pilaf meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
pilaf in Hindi
- dish
- पुलाव pulāv
pilaf in Marathi
- dish
- पुलाव pulāv
pilaf in Urdu
- dish
- پُلاؤ pulāo
pilaf in Bengali
- dish
- পোলাও pōlaō
More languagesFewer languages
- pilaf in Punjabi
- ਪੁਲਾਉ pulāu, پُلاؤ pulā'o
- pilaf in Gujarati
- પુલાવ pulāv
- pilaf in Pashto
- پلو, پلاو palāw, پولاو polāw
- pilaf in Tagalog
- pilaw
- pilaf in Arabic
- بِيلَاو bilāw
- pilaf in Indonesian
- plov, pilaf, pullao
Forms of pilaf
| plural | pilafs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pilaff |
| alternative form | pillaf |
| alternative form | pillaff |
| alternative form | pillaw |
| alternative form | pilao |
| alternative form | pilau |
| alternative form | pilav |
| alternative form | plov |
| alternative form | polao |
| alternative form | pulao |
| alternative form | pulau |
Origin of pilaf
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀼𑀮𑀸𑀕 (*pulāga), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”). Doublet of pulao.
Questions about pilaf
- What does pilaf mean?
- Pilaf means 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.
- What is pilaf in Hindi?
- Pilaf in Hindi is पुलाव (pulāv). See Pilaf meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pilaf?
- Pilaf is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pilaf?
- Pilaf is pronounced /pɪlɐːf/ (Australia).
- What is the plural of pilaf?
- The plural of pilaf is pilafs.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pilaf (page history and authors); પુલાવ (Gujarati) (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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