плов
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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian پلو (polow).
Pronunciation
Noun
плов • (plov) m inan (genitive пло́ва, nominative plural пло́вы, genitive plural пло́вов)
- pilaf, plov (dish)
- 1904, Лев Толстой, “VI”, in Хаджи-Мурат; English translation from Louise and Aylmer Maude, transl., Hadji Murat, 1912:
- За обедом Хаджи-Мурат ничего не ел, кроме плова, которого он взял себе на тарелку из того самого места, из которого взяла себе Марья Васильевна.
- Za obedom Xadži-Murat ničevo ne jel, krome plova, kotorovo on vzjal sebe na tarelku iz tovo samovo mesta, iz kotorovo vzjala sebe Marʹja Vasilʹjevna.
- At dinner he hardly ate anything except some pilau, to which he helped himself from the very part of the dish from which Marya Vasilevna had helped herself.
Declension
Declension of плов (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)