dal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Hindi दाल (dāl) or Bengali ডাল (ḍal).

We'll start a boat on the Dal or cross the Rhotang--shoot ibex or loaf--which you please. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
We took several trips in the SHIKARAS or houseboats, shaded by red-embroidered canopies, coursing along the intricate channels of Dal Lake, a network of canals like a watery spider web. — Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
Leo Africanus, gives the subjoined account of Ghadames: GADEMES, ABITAZIONE.--Gademes è una grande abitazione, dove sono molti castelli e popolosi casali, discosti dal mare Mediterraneo, verso mezzogiorno, circa a trecento miglia. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, decalitre, dkl

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