chawl

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
    — I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
  2. Jaw or cheek. UK,dialectal
  3. Jowl; cheek; face. UK,dialectal

词形变化

chawls plural chawls plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.
词源 2
From Middle English chaule, chavel, from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, jowl”). More at jowl.
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