noun East Indian Cookery.
- dal.
noun
- the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
noun East Indian Cookery.
- a sauce made from lentils and spices, usually served with rice.
noun
- a tropical African and Asian leguminous shrub, Cajanus cajan, cultivated in tropical regions for its nutritious pealike seeds
- Former name: pigeon pea the seed of this shrub
- a curry made from lentils or other pulses
noun
- split grain, a common foodstuff in India; pulse
- a variant spelling of dhal
symbol for
- decalitre(s)
1690s, from Hindi dal “split pulse,” from Sanskrit dala, from dal “to split.”