A cereal grain plant (grain sorghum) grown in India and other tropical regions; also called jowar or durra.
From Hindi 'jowar' or Tamil/Telugu origins, cholam refers to the grain sorghum. The word entered English from South Asian languages through colonial trade and agricultural contact.
Cholam has been feeding India for thousands of years, but English speakers had to borrow the word from Hindi because we never developed our own name—showing how colonialism went both directions, bringing crops and their names into our language.
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