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单词 pongal
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Definition of pongal in English:

pongal

noun ˈpɒŋɡ(ə)l
  • 1The Tamil New Year festival, celebrated by the cooking of new rice.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pongal is a popular harvest festival in South India.
    • They celebrated Pongal by distributing sugarcane pieces and collectively bringing to boil the quintessential made of rice, milk and jaggery.
    1. 1.1mass noun A southern Indian dish of rice cooked with various herbs and spices.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If the served pongal provided a feast to the taste buds, the dress code of the dazzling girls was too catchy to cool the eyes of the beholders.
      • And pongal was distributed to the passengers as well.
      • Over 2,000 people attended as families simultaneously boiled a total of 320 ceremonial pots of sweet rice, called pongal.
      • There's some discussion about the menu: the consensus is on simple idli and various kinds of rice preparations (lemon rice, pongal, sambar rice, curd rice).
      • They enjoyed the pongal, but not before offering prayers to the Sun God.

Origin

From Tamil poṅkal, literally 'boiling, swelling' (with reference to the cooking process of rice).

Rhymes

diphthongal
 
 
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