chawl

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chawl

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Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

chawl (plural chawls)

1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
   • 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India‎^[1]:

     I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!

   • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:

     Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.

• Walch

• IPA^(key): /χau̯l/

chawl

1. Aspirate mutation of cawl (“soup”).