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Definition of pongal in English: pongalnoun ˈpɒŋɡ(ə)l 1The Tamil New Year festival, celebrated by the cooking of new rice. Example sentencesExamples - Pongal is a popular harvest festival in South India.
- They celebrated Pongal by distributing sugarcane pieces and collectively bringing to boil the quintessential made of rice, milk and jaggery.
- 1.1mass noun A southern Indian dish of rice cooked with various herbs and spices.
Example sentencesExamples - If the served pongal provided a feast to the taste buds, the dress code of the dazzling girls was too catchy to cool the eyes of the beholders.
- And pongal was distributed to the passengers as well.
- Over 2,000 people attended as families simultaneously boiled a total of 320 ceremonial pots of sweet rice, called pongal.
- There's some discussion about the menu: the consensus is on simple idli and various kinds of rice preparations (lemon rice, pongal, sambar rice, curd rice).
- They enjoyed the pongal, but not before offering prayers to the Sun God.
Origin From Tamil poṅkal, literally 'boiling, swelling' (with reference to the cooking process of rice). |