Urdu Dictionary

دال दाल dāl

H دال दाल dāl [S. दलं, rt. दल् 'to split,' &c.], s.f. Split pea (of mūṅg, arhar, and other kinds of pulse, much used for food); split pulse; pulse, lentils, vetches;—a

black or dark spot (resembling dāl, in anything); focus (of rays of light);—a crust, scale, scab:—dāl bandhnā (-kī), A scab to form;—a focus (of light) to be formed:—dāl-ćapātī, s.f. Boiled pulse and bread:—dāl-daliyā, s.m. Poor diet, coarse fare; pot-luck; something, some small gain:—dāl-roṭī, s.f. Bread and dāl; food, sustenance, livelihood:—dāl galnā (-kisī-kī), 'The dāl to become soft in boiling'; to have an advantage, to avail; to succeed; to keep in (with), to get on (with):—dāl-meṅ kućh kālā, '(There is) something black (as a fly or the like) in the dālʼ; (there is) something wrong or suspicious (in the affair, &c.), something amiss (here):—dāl-wālā, s.m. (f. -ī), A dealer in pulse, &c.:—āṭā-dāl, s.m. Flour and dāl; food, livelihood:—patlī dāl-kā khāne-wālā, s.m. 'One who lives on pulse boiled thin and watery'; a feeble person; a baniyā.