"poha" meaning in English

See poha in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|en|hi|पोहा|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Hindi पोहा (pohā), {{bor+|en|hi|पोहा}} Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} poha (uncountable)
  1. An Indian dish of rice flattened into flakes. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-poha-en-noun-XXlQ-Oco
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} poha
  1. Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana). Categories (lifeform): Groundcherries
    Sense id: en-poha-en-noun-uYTDd5I0 Disambiguation of Groundcherries: 11 89 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for poha meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "पोहा",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi पोहा (pohā)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "पोहा"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "poha (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 111",
          "text": "She brought fresh green chillies with her every day and cooked me poha for breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Indian dish of rice flattened into flakes."
      ],
      "id": "en-poha-en-noun-XXlQ-Oco",
      "links": [
        [
          "rice",
          "rice"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poha"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "poha",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 93",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Groundcherries",
          "orig": "en:Groundcherries",
          "parents": [
            "Nightshades",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana)."
      ],
      "id": "en-poha-en-noun-uYTDd5I0",
      "links": [
        [
          "Cape gooseberry",
          "Cape gooseberry"
        ],
        [
          "Physalis peruviana",
          "Physalis peruviana#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poha"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Hindi",
    "English terms derived from Hindi",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Groundcherries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "पोहा",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi पोहा (pohā)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "पोहा"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hindi पोहा (pohā).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "poha (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 111",
          "text": "She brought fresh green chillies with her every day and cooked me poha for breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An Indian dish of rice flattened into flakes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rice",
          "rice"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poha"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "en:Groundcherries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "poha",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cape gooseberry",
          "Cape gooseberry"
        ],
        [
          "Physalis peruviana",
          "Physalis peruviana#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "poha"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.