urad
/ʊˈɹʌd/
urad noun: vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
Noun
urad (uncountable)
- Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
- A lasagne that feels like lasagne except made from mung and urad beans; the whole thing is then served – as if to remind you, again, of what it is not – with a thumb of cucumber.2025 February 14, Morwenna Ferrier, “‘Butter is a perception’: inside the UK’s first plant-based Michelin-starred restaurant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- black gram, black lentil, urad bean, urd bean
urad meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
urad in Hindi
- South Asian bean
- उड़द uṛad
urad in Tamil
- South Asian bean
- உளுந்து uḷuntu, உழுந்து uḻuntu
urad in Marathi
- South Asian bean
- उडीद uḍīd
urad in Bengali
- South Asian bean
- মাষকলাই maṣkôlai
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- urad in Telugu
- మినుములు minumulu
- urad in Malayalam
- ഉഴുന്ന് uḻunnŭ
- urad in Kannada
- ಉದ್ದು uddu
- urad in Punjabi
- ਮਾਂਹ mā̃h, ਮਾਸ਼ māś
- urad in Gujarati
- અડદ aḍad
- urad in Odia
- ବିରି biri
- urad in Sanskrit
- माष māṣa
- urad in Sinhala
- උඳු uⁿdu
- urad in Assamese
- মাটিমাহ matimah
- urad in Nepali
- मास mās
- urad in Vietnamese
- đậu muồng ăn
- urad in Myanmar
- မတ်ပဲ matpai:
- Dhivehi
- ކަޅު މުގު kaḷu mugu
Synonyms of urad
- black gram
- black lentil
- urad bean
- urd bean
Forms of urad
| alternative form | oord |
|---|---|
| alternative form | oordh |
| alternative form | oorud |
| alternative form | udad |
| alternative form | urd |
Origin of urad
Borrowed from Hindi उड़द (uṛad), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *uẓuntu
Words formed from urad
Phrases with urad
Questions about urad
- What does urad mean?
- Urad means vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal.
- What is urad in Hindi?
- Urad in Hindi is उड़द (uṛad). See Urad meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is urad?
- Urad is a noun.
- How do you pronounce urad?
- Urad is pronounced /ʊˈɹʌd/.
Words near urad in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: urad (page history and authors); মাটিমাহ (Assamese) (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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