gram

en-noun

gram (countable and uncountable, plural grams)

From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, granum, and grao.

doublet

The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India.

A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.

(uncountable) The seeds of these plants.


gram

(broadcasting, dated) A gramophone recording.


gram

Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”).


gram

en-verb

gram (third-person singular simple present grams, present participle gramming, simple past and past participle grammed)

grams (present singular third-person)
gramming (participle present)
grammed (participle past)
grammed (past)


chickpea

/ˈt͡ʃɪkˌpiː/

Calque of French pois chiche, from pois (“pea”) + chiche, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”).

Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinum#Translingual

An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.


garbanzo

/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/

From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.

dbt

America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free[…]

1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33:

An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.


desi

There are two types of chickpea, desi (small seeded, angular and coloured) and kabuli (large seeded, ram-shaped and beige coloured). No precise information is available about the division of the 11 million hectares under chickpea between desis and kabulis, but an approximation is that more than 85 per cent of the area is covered with the desis type and the rest with kabuli.

1984, J.R. Witcombe, Genetic Resources and Their Exploitation:

These lighter coloured desis are now generally favoured by most markets as they look fresher, despite the majority of desis still ending up dehulled.

2007, Shyam S. Yadav, Chickpea Breeding and Management, page 568:

A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.


אַרבעס

yi-noun

אַרבעס • (arbes) m, plural אַרבעס (arbes)

From Middle High German erbeiz, from Old High German arawīz, from Proto-West Germanic *arwīt, from Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”).


chana

en-noun

chana (usually uncountable, plural chanas)


chana dal

From Hindi चना दाल (canā dāl). See chana + dal.

An Indian dish of chickpeas cooked with onion, garlic, tomatoes and spices.


chole

(Indian cooking) Chickpeas, or a curry consisting mainly of chickpeas.


chhole

Usually she makes my father’s favorite dishes along with poori, samosas, chhole and sweets.

2009 September 27, Natasha Singh, “My Mother’s Imposed Fast: I Feel Her Hunger”, in New York Times:


garbanzo bean

The Spaniard, it seems, takes at every meal his "garbanzo" bean, the Italian his macaroni, etc.

1884, The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, volume XI, page 95:

Garbanzo bean (Cicer arietinum L.), also called chickpea, is a large-seeded annual legume.

1958, Colorado Agricultural College, Technical Bulletin, volume 734, page 1:

Garbanzo beans have been known throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. They are available dried, or canned.

2006, Fabien Bellahsen, Daniel Rouche, France: Mediterranean Cuisine, page 60:


Bengal gram

A form of chickpea, or the flour made from it


ciecierzyca

ciecierzyca (nominative singular)
ciecierzyce (nominative plural)
ciecierzycy (genitive singular)
ciecierzyc (genitive plural)
ciecierzycy (dative singular)
ciecierzycom (dative plural)
ciecierzycę (accusative singular)
ciecierzyce (accusative plural)
ciecierzycą (instrumental singular)
ciecierzycami (instrumental plural)
ciecierzycy (locative singular)
ciecierzycach (locative plural)
ciecierzyco (singular vocative)
ciecierzyce (plural vocative)

/t͡ɕɛ.t͡ɕɛˈʐɘ.t͡sa/


kabuli

The availability of a large number of resistant lines in desi and kabuli background should help breeders develop resistant and high-yielding cultivars. It was earlier believed that kabulis lack resistant genes to ascochyta blight but screening a large collection revealed many lines having a high level of resistance.

1984, M.C. Saxena, editor, Ascochyta Blight and Winter Sowing of Chickpeas:

Two distinct chickpea types, different in their morphology and used in different ways of processing have been described: desi and kabuli.

2018, Rajeev K. Varshney, The Chickpea Genome, page 108:


kadala

kadala (usually uncountable, plural kadalas)

Borrowed from Dravidian languages, compare Malayalam കടല (kaṭala), Tamil கடலை (kaṭalai).


ચણો

caṇo (romanization)
ચણો (nominative singular)
ચણા (nominative plural)
ચણાઓ (nominative plural)
ચણા (oblique singular)
ચણાઓ (oblique plural)
ચણા (singular vocative)
ચણાઓ (plural vocative)
ચણે (instrumental singular)
ચણાએ (instrumental plural)
ચણે (locative singular)
ચણે (locative plural)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀘𑀡𑀕 (caṇaga), 𑀘𑀡 (caṇa), from Sanskrit चण (caṇa). Cognate with Kachchi ચણો (caṇo) and Sindhi چَڻو (caṇo).

inh+

(usually in the plural) chickpea (Cicer arietinum)


نخوے

head

نَخوے (naxóy)

khw-noun

نَخوے (naxóy)

Borrowed from Iranian, perhaps from Classical Persian نَخود (naxōd, “chickpea”).