pallu

Borrowed from Hindi पल्लू (pallū), from पल्ला (pallā, “side”), from Sanskrit पल्ल (palla). Compare with palla.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpaluː/

pallu (plural pallus)

1. (South Asia) The usually decorated end of a sari that hangs loose when worn.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 45:

     She had pulled the pallu back over her head and her face.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 116:

     Dressed in a simple grey cotton sari, her head covered with the pallu, she sat on a platform behind a table with a microphone.

• Paull, all-up, pulla

• IPA^(key):

pallu (Lontara spelling ᨄᨒᨘ, semi-transitive appallu)

1. (transitive) to cook

• papallu

From Proto-Celtic *kʷalnati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɬɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɬi/
• Rhymes: -alɨ̞

pallu (first-person singular present pallaf)

1. to fail, to cease, to perish, to be destroyed

   Mae'r cof yn pallu.

   My memory fails me.

   (literally, “The memory fails.”)

   Synonyms: gwrthod, nacáu

2. to refuse, deny

   (South Wales)

   Mae'r ffenest yn pallu agor.

   The window won't open.

   (literally, “The window refuses to open.”)

   Synonyms: gwrthod, nacáu

• palledig (“failed, defective”)
• pallu gweithio (“to break down”)

• pall (“failure, fault”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pallu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies