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From Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. [1][2][3] Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”).

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.

    • 9 Mar 2007, The Independent‎[1]:

      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".

dish

  1. ^ “pilaf”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ “pilaf”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “4315”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 381.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو (pilâv, “pilaf, boiled rice prepared with butter, meat, fat, etc”).[1]

pilaf m

  1. rice boiled with salt and butter, pilaf
  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pilaf”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 362

Borrowed from Turkish pilâv, pilav.

pilaf m inan

  1. pilaf

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

  • “pilaf”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “pilaf”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

pilaf m (plural pilafs)

  1. pilaf

pilaf m (plural pilafes)

  1. pilaf

From Turkish pilâv, pilav.

pilaf m (uncountable)

  1. pilaf (dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پلاو. Compare Turkish pilav.

pilaf n (plural pilafuri)

  1. pilaf, pilaf, pilau