Editing Pilaf (section)

==Etymology==
According to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', Third Edition (2006) the [[English language|English]] word ''pilaf'', which is the later and [[North American English]] form, is a borrowing from [[Turkish language|Turkish]], its etymon, or linguistic ancestor, the Turkish {{lang|tr|pilav}}, whose etymon is the Persian {{lang|fa-latn|pilāv}}; "pilaf" is found more commonly in North American dictionaries than ''pilau'', all from the Persian {{lang|fa-latn|pilav}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Desmaisons |first=Jean J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TsoUAAAAIAAJ&dq=pilaw&pg=PA80 |title=Dictionnaire Persan-francais |date=1908 |publisher=Brill Archive |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Vieyra |first=Antonio |title="Chapter 2. Second part developing the title of this story and inviting the Portuguese to read it [Address to the Portuguese]" |work=History of the Future |pages=92–100 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.ugaeditions.881 |access-date=2024-03-30 |publisher=UGA Éditions|doi=10.4000/books.ugaeditions.881 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{Sfn|Oxford English Dictionary|2006a}}

The [[British English|British]] and [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]] spelling, ''pilau'', has etymon Persian {{lang|fa-latn|pulaw}} (in form ''palāv'', ''pilāv'', or ''pulāv'' in the 16th century) and [[Urdu]] {{lang|ur-latn|pulāv}} ("dish of rice and meat"), from [[Sanskrit|Persian]]<ref>{{Citation |title=English, v. |date=2023-03-02 |work=Oxford English Dictionary |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oed/2599967978 |access-date=2024-03-30 |publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/oed/2599967978 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''pulāv'' ("Side dishes, spices, meat, vegetables, even plain rice "), the Tamil Pulukku ("Dravidian (compare Tamil puḷukku (adjective) simmered, (noun) boiled or parboiled food, ''puḷukkal'' cooked rice); in turn probably from [[Sanskrit]] {{lang|sa-latn|pulāka}} ("ball of rice").{{Sfn|Oxford English Dictionary|2006b}}