Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phall

/fɑːl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phall
IPA: /fɑːl/

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spicy grilled South Indian curry made with chillis and ginger.

noun

An extremely hot British-Indian curry, often billed as the hottest curry in the world.

British usage

noun

Phall curry.

Example Sentences

"“Misled how?” I toss this over in my mind as my fork tosses the murg phall, a suicidally hot Bangalore-style chicken curry designed for masochistic European taste, slowly oxidizing in my plate."

Etymology

Likely from Bengali ফাল (phal), metathesis of লাফ (laph), from Sanskrit लम्फ (lampha).

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Word Breakdown

Root: ফাল, लम्फ

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

phalls (plural) phaal (alternative) phal (alternative)

Homonyms

farl

Rhymes With

real al carl rationale senegal dal choral halal cabal locale banal baal

Questions

How do you pronounce phall?: The recorded pronunciation is /fɑːl/.
What does phall mean?: A spicy grilled South Indian curry made with chillis and ginger.
Where does phall come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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