dal

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dal"

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Translingual

Etymology 1

From da (“deca-”) +‎ l (“litre”).

Alternative forms

• daL

Symbol

dal

1. (metrology) Symbol for decalitre, an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10¹ litres.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of English Dahalo.

Symbol

dal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dahalo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dahalo terms

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

dal

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• dahl, dhal, daal, dholl, doll

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɑːl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Noun

dal (countable and uncountable, plural dals)

1. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
2. A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days‎:

     A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.

3. A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.

Synonyms

• legume
• pulse

Derived terms

• chana dal
• dal bhat
• dal tarka
• masoor dal
• urad dal

Translations

a dried husked pulse

Afrikaans: dhal Assamese: দাইল (dail), ডালি (dali) Bengali: ডাল (bn) (ḍal), ডাইল (bn) (ḍail) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Gujarati: દાળ ? (dāḷ) Hindi: दाल (hi) f (dāl) Japanese: ダール (dāru) Kannada: ತೊವ್ವೆ (kn) (tovve) Malayalam: പരിപ്പ് (ml) (parippŭ) Nepali: दाल (ne) (dāl) Odia: please add this translation if you can Persian: دال (fa) (dâl), دال‌عدس (dâla-'das) Polish: dal (pl) m Punjabi: ਦਾਲ (dāl), ਦਾਲ਼ (dāḷ) Russian: дал (ru) m (dal), даа́л m (daál) Sinhalese: පරිප්පු (parippu) Tamil: பருப்பு (ta) (paruppu), கந்தி (ta) (kanti) Telugu: పప్పు (te) (pappu) Urdu: دال f (dāl)

dish

Afrikaans: dhal Malayalam: പരിപ്പുകറി (parippukaṟi), പരിപ്പ് (ml) (parippŭ) Polish: dal (pl) f Tamil: பருப்புக்கறி (paruppukkaṟi)

See also

• dal segno (different etymology)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dal”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• ADL, LDA, DLA, LAD, ALD, Ald., lad

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dal, from Old Dutch dal, from Proto-West Germanic *dal (“valley, dale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑl]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

dal (plural dale)

1. dale, valley

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.