pilau
noun
spiced rice, often cooked with meat.
It names a spiced rice dish.
Origins
The word’s earlier history is still under review.
A. C. Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), PDF page 339.
Records a rice preparation called pilau; its recipe description is historical. Historical evidence; not a survey of current Kenyan speech.
University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center, University of Kansas Kiswahili Glossary (University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center), pilau glossary rows.
Describes pilau as a spiced rice dish with meat and vegetables.
Examples
Ninapenda pilau.
I like pilau.
Unataka pilau?
Do you want pilau?
Tulikula pilau jana.
We ate pilau yesterday.
Pilau ni tamu.
Pilau is delicious.
Alipika pilau.
She cooked pilau.
Je, pilau hii ina nyama?
Does this pilau have meat in it?
Pilau hii ni nzuri sana.
This pilau is very good.
Naweza kupata pilau kidogo?
Can I have some pilau?
Pilau bado haiko tayari; tutasubiri kidogo.
The pilau isn’t ready yet; we’ll wait a little.
