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pilaf en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /piːlæf/ (General-American)
• pee-lăf (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /pɪlɐːf/ (Australia)
• /piːlɑːf/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Forms

Translations (87)

ka ფლავი (dish) · bg пила́ф (dish) · hy փլավ (dish) · tl pilaw (dish) · nog пылав (dish) · ug پولۇ (dish) · tr pilav (dish) · prs پِلَاو (dish) · fr pilaf (dish) · id plov (dish) · ota پلاو (dish) · sk pilaf (dish) · az плов (dish) · sv pilaff (dish) · mr पुलाव (dish) · uz osh (dish) · id pilaf (dish) · da pilaf (dish) · id pullao (dish) · prs پِلَوْ (dish) · de Pilaw (dish) · az plov (dish) · az aş (dish) · lt plovas (dish) · lv plovs (dish) · tt пылау (dish) · kk палау (dish) · ur پُلاؤ (dish) · sl plov (dish) · ca pilav (dish) · nb pilaff (dish) · pl pilaw (dish) · tg палав (dish) · crh pilav (dish) · ps پلو (dish) · he פילאף (dish) · ky аш (dish) · nn pilaff (dish) · fi pilahvi (dish) · kmr pila (dish) · kmr pilav (dish) · ky палоо (dish) · bn পোলাও (dish) · ba былау (dish) · mk пилаф (dish) · uz palov (dish) · ckb پِڵاو (dish) · el πιλάφι (dish) · hy եղինձ (dish) · tg палов (dish) · ko 필라프 (dish) · pt pilafe (dish) · ko 플로프 (dish) · cs pilaf (dish) · ps پلاو (dish) · prs پَلَوْ (dish) · eo pilafo (dish) · es pilaf (dish) · sh пѝла̄в (dish) · cmn 抓飯 /抓饭 (dish) · ps پولاو (dish) · tk palaw (dish) · hi पुलाव (dish) · ru пила́в (dish) · dng җуафан (dish) · nl pilaff (dish) · hu piláf (dish) · tg пилов (dish) · ru плов (dish) · be плоў (dish) · ja ピラフ (dish) · ar بِيلَاو (dish) · tk palow (dish) · sw pilau (dish) · pa ਪੁਲਾਉ (dish) · alt плов (dish) · fa-ira پُلُو (dish) · yah палов̌ (dish) · sh pìlāv (dish) · kmr girar (dish) · it pilaf (dish) · pt pilaf (dish) · pa پُلاؤ (dish) · fa-ira پِلاو (dish) · sq pilaf (dish) · ro pilaf (dish) · uk плов (dish)