Etymology of the word Pilaf

Those who eat animal food were considered as vile person by Tamil people. Therefore those caste
Brahmins of that age who ate animal food were called as pulaiyar. In Tamil, animal food is called as
pulai.

Pul-> pulai , n. [K. hole.] 1. Baseness;

16). 2. Uncleanness; 13, 28). 3.
Defilement; ( 25, 11). 4. Vice, evil way;

204). 5. Lie;
6). 6. Adultery;
13, 91). 7. Animal food;
13). 8. Outcaste; 6). 9. Stench;
W.)

pulai-> pulaisu , n. [T. polusu.] Flesh, raw meat;

4, 17).

pulaisu -> English. flesh, O.E. flæsc "flesh, meat, O.Fris. flesk, M.L.G. vlees, Ger.
Fleisch "flesh," O.N. flesk "pork, bacon")

pulai-> pulaiñar , n. 1. Vile people; 2. Outcastes;

pulai-t-taṉam , n. 1. Baseness, vileness; 2. Barbarity; cruelty to

animals;

pulai-> pulaimai , n. 1. Vileness; baseness;

24, 80). 2. Vicious practice; W.)

For this reason, Caste Brahmins are called as

pulai-> ---- pulai-makaṉ , n.. 1. Low-caste man; 2.

Purohit, as officiating in funeral ceremonies; 2984).
3. Barber, as officiating in funeral ceremonies; ( 2984,
 pulai-> pulaiyaṉ , n. [K. holeyan, M. pulayan.] 1. Base or low-caste
person, outcaste;
128). 2. Purohit;
( 360). 3. An aboriginal caste on the Āṉaimalais and other hills of South India;
4. Outcaste; 5. A person belonging to Pāṇaṉ caste;
35).

pulai-> pulai-viṉaiyar , n. Abominable, vile persons; men of

execrable deeds;
, 329).

, 329).

Men who destroy life are base men, in the estimation of those who know
the nature of meanness.

pulai-> pulai-t-toḻil , n. Evil habits, vile practice;

13).

Later these Caste Brahmins who appropriated/usurped the titles of Anthanar, Aravor, Vēḷā-p-pārppāṉ
(Tamil) granted their title of pulai makan or pulaiyan to Certain Communities intentionally and thereby
claimed as purified.

pulai-p-pāṭi, n. See
( 6).

Pul-> ¹- pulavu- , 5 v. < intr. To smell raw flesh;

22).--tr. To dislike, abhor;
219).

² pulavu, n. < ¹-. 1. Dislike, abhorrence;

( 22). 2. Flesh, raw meat, fish; 3. Smell of flesh or fish;
94). 4. Blood;
293). 5. Hell;
 ¹- pulavu -> ; pulavu A kind of dish prepared of cooked meat and boiled rice;

pulavu-> ¹ pulāvu, A kind of dish prepared of cooked meat and boiled rice;

¹ pulāvu-> pulau, 1. A kind of dish prepared of cooked meat and boiled rice;
2. A kind of rice-gruel;

This Tamil word is borrowed by the following languages.

Albanian: pilaf, Armenian: փիլավ p‘ilav, Assamese: polao Azerbaijani: plov, aş,
Bengali: polao, polau, Bosnian: pilav, Bulgarian: пилаф, Caribbean: Pelau,
Crimean Tatar: pilâv, Danish: pilaf, Dutch: pilaf, East African: Pilau, Estonian: pilaff, Finnish
pilahvi, Greek πιλάφι piláfi, Gujarati pulau, pulāv, Hebrew oshpalov, plov,
pilaf, Hindi pulāv, Italian pilota Kannada palāv, Kazakh: палау; [paláw],
Korean 필라프 pillapeu, Kurdish Polaw, Kyrgyz: палоо, аш, плов; [pɑloː, aʃ, plof] Latvian: Plovs,
Lithuanian: Plovas , Macedonian: Пилав pila, Marathi pulāv, Moldovan: pilaf, Nepali
pulāu, Norwegian: pilaff, Oriya : palaauu, Pashto pulao/pulaa, Persian polow/polo, Polish:
pilaw [ˈpilaf], Romanian: pilaf, Russian: плов; [ˈpɫɔf], Serbian: Пилав pilav, Sindhi: Pulah, Plaoh,
Swedish: pilaff, Tagalog pilaw, Tajik: палав palav, ош osh, Tatar: pɪlaw; [pəlaw], Trinidad and
Tobago pelau, Turkish pilav, Turkmen: palaw, Ukrainian: плов (Plov), Urdu pulao, Uyghur
polo, Uzbek: palov, osh; [palɒw, ɒʃ].

Pilaf, also called polo , polao, pilau, pilav, pilaff, plov or pulao in its adopted languages
(Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Marathi, Uzbek, Turkmen, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi,
Pashto, Persian, Armenian etc.) and in Greek (Pilafi-Πιλαφί), is a dish in which a rice is cooked
in a seasoned broth. In some cases, the rice may also attain its brown color by being stirred with
bits of burned onion, as well as a large mix of spices. The English term pilaf is borrowed directly
from Turkish, which in turn comes from Tamil ¹ pulāvu. Depending on the local cuisine, it
may also contain a variety of meat and vegetables.

Pul-> pula-> pulāl , n. 1. Flesh, raw meat, fish;

, 257). 2. Smell of raw meat, flesh or fish;
, 97). 3. Muscle;