chawl
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.
Noun
chawl (plural chawls)
- A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
- 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India:
- I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
- 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 419:
- Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.
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Anagrams
- Walch
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χau̯l/
Noun
chawl
- Aspirate mutation of cawl (“soup”).
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| cawl | gawl | nghawl | chawl |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||