"poppadom" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: poppadoms [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil பப்படம் (pappaṭam), from Sanskrit पर्पट (parpaṭa). Although the word began to be attested in English in the 1860s, shortly after the establishment of the British Raj, it only came into consistent use around 1940, after which all of the forms indicated above as common have remained in use. Doublet of papad. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ta|பப்படம்}} Tamil பப்படம் (pappaṭam), {{der|en|sa|पर्पट}} Sanskrit पर्पट (parpaṭa), {{doublet|en|papad}} Doublet of papad Head templates: {{en-noun}} poppadom (plural poppadoms)
  1. A thin, crisp Indian food made from lentil flour, optionally spiced or flavoured in various ways and either grilled or deep-fried, which may be eaten on its own as a snack, with chutneys as a starter, or as an accompaniment to a meal. Wikipedia link: British Raj, poppadom Categories (topical): Breads Related terms: papad Translations (food): পাপড় (papor) (Assamese), পাপড়ম (paporom) (Assamese), পাঁপড় (pãpoṛ) (Bengali), પાપડ (pāpaḍ) [masculine] (Gujarati), पापड़ (pāpaṛ) [masculine] (Hindi), ಪಪ್ಪಳ (pappaḷa) (Kannada), പപ്പടം (pappaṭaṁ) (Malayalam), पापड (pāpaḍ) [masculine] (Marathi), पापड (pāpaḍ) (Nepali), ପାପଡ଼ (pāpaṛa) (Odia), ਪਾਪੜ (pāpaṛ) [masculine] (Punjabi), پاپَڙُ (pāpaṛu) [masculine] (Sindhi), පපඩම් (papaḍam) (Sinhalese), பப்படம் (pappaṭam) (Tamil), అప్పడము (appaḍamu) (Telugu), پاپَڑ (pāpaṛ) [masculine] (Urdu)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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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.