pilaf (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)
çekim: çoğul پلوها
köken: From earlier Classical Persian پِلَاوْ (pilāw) / پَلَاوْ (palāw), borrowed from Hindustani पुलाव (pulāv) / پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka, “lump of boiled rice”). The term is said to be of Dravidian origin; compare Kannada ಪುೞ್ಗಿ (puḻgi, “a rice dish”), Malayalam പുഴുങ്ങുക (puḻuṅṅuka, “to be boiling”), Tamil புழுக்கல் (puḻukkal, “cooked rice”), and Telugu పులగము (pulagamu, “a dish…
cooked non-glutinous rice · a rice meal · meat; flesh
köken: From Proto-Vietic *kəːm (“cooked rice”); cognate with Arem kʌːm. According to Ferlus, a loan from Chinese 泔 (OC *kaːm, “water from washing rice; kitchen slops”) (SV: cam), although the vowels are difficult to match. Semantically, compare Thai ข้าว (kâao, “rice; meal”), Khmer បាយ (baay, “rice; meal”), Chinese 飯 /饭 (fàn, “rice; meal”), Korean 밥 (bap, “rice; meal”), Japanese ご飯 (gohan, “rice; meal”).
köken: From Proto-Southern-Philippine *kaʔən-ən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən-ən (“be eaten by someone; cooked rice”). Equivalent to the syncopic form of kainin (“thing to be eaten”), from kain. Compare Yami kanen, Ilocano kanen, Kapampangan kanan, Central Bikol kaonon, Cebuano kan-on, Hiligaynon kan-on, Tausug kaunun, and Paiwan kanen.
swan · a species of swan, which poets credit with the power to separate milk when mixed with water
köken: Cognate with Malayalam അന്നം (annaṁ). Possibly from Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa), and if so, a doublet of ஹம்ஸம் (hamsam), அமுசம் (amucam), and அம்சம் (amcam).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀪𑀢𑁆𑀢 (bhatta) with semantic shift, as rice was distributed among close ones, from Sanskrit भक्त (bhaktá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaktás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂g-tó-s, from the root *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute”). The food sense is a semantic loan from Pali bhatta (“food, meal”). Doublet of ભક્ત (bhakt) and બખત (bakhat). Cognate with Assamese ভাত…
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ₔd-nó-s (“eaten”), from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). The sense "food, rice" is a nominal derivation from the adjective. See the root अद् (ad, “to eat”) for more.