chapati
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- noun
- /tʃəˈpɑːti/
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chapati
- She placed the freshly made chapati on the table alongside a variety of dips.
- chapati flour
Examples
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I saw roasted peanuts, chapati, rice cakes, and sambusa.
Fiction book (2001) -
Out from a hatch in the deck come steaming dishes of chapati and vegetable curry.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you want chapati and beans, then just buy already cooked food.
Blog text (28) -
- They're going to be chapati.
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Always listen to the locals, Kara Nano chapati na.
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"I don't know," he shrugs, soaking up some gravy with a piece of chapati.
Fiction book (2000) -
Kala chapati hot water cornbread pita in jera baguette.
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Moreover, these highly paid professionals, derisively characterized by their opponents as the "chapati lobby," are politically active—especially in the major urban-industrial states of the Northeast and Midwest and in California.
Academic text (2001) -
For lunch, we enjoyed a warm chapati served with spicy curry.
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The chef expertly tossed the dough, creating a perfectly round chapati for dinner.
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Etymology
Chapati comes from the Hindi word chapātī, which comes from a root meaning 'flat' or 'flattened', like the English word 'flat'. So a chapati is a thin, round flatbread that is pressed and cooked on a griddle.