A type of curry or spiced Indian dish, or a dialectal term for certain preparations of food; usage is regional and not widely standardized.
From Indian cuisine terminology, possibly related to Hindi or regional South Asian language cooking terms, though the etymology is uncertain and not well-documented in English sources.
This word represents how English absorbed countless food terms from the Indian subcontinent during colonial times and afterward—many of these curry and cooking terms remained localized to regions with Indian immigrant communities rather than becoming standard English.
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