చారు

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Telugu[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Tamil சாறு (cāṟu, juice, aromatic (pepper) water), Malayalam ചാറു (cāṟu, sap, broth, infusion), Kannada ಚಾಱು (cāṟu, sap, broth, pepper water).[1]

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Noun[edit]

చారు (cāru? (plural చాళ్ళు)

  1. soup
    1. pepper water, a kind of thin soup made of coriander, tamarind, pepper, and other spices (= rasam); the South Indian soup usually termed mulligatawny

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Sanskrit चारु (cāru).

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Adjective[edit]

చారు (cāru)

  1. beautiful, lovely, charming

References[edit]

  1. ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) chapter 2484, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 217.