biryani
Saybi-ree-AH-nee/ˌbɪɹiˈɑni/UK/ˌbɪɹiˈɑːni/
Pluralbiryanis
- 1A spiced dish of rice combined with meat, vegetables, or both.
She slow-cooked the biryani with saffron, onions, and layers of fragrant rice.
Every guest at the wedding came back for a second helping of biryani.
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Origin
From Hindustani biryānī, from Classical Persian biryānī, formed from biryān meaning "roast" (from the verb birištan, "to roast") plus the suffix -ī.