matar

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A small green pea often used in Indian cooking

noun

Indian

: guisante

The recipe calls for green matar to give the dish a pop of color.

Examples

For dinner, she prepared a dish with matar and basmati rice.
I added fresh matar to the curry to enhance its flavor.
Vine a matar-me.

The Incident (1967)

Surface Forms

matar singular

matars plural

Etymology

Matar comes from Hindi matar, which means 'pea', and it is the common word used in Indian cooking for green peas, so when you see matar on a menu it means green peas.