# biryani

Pronunciation: say "bi-ree-AH-nee" US /ˌbɪɹiˈɑni/, UK /ˌbɪɹiˈɑːni/

## Noun

1. A spiced dish of rice combined with meat, vegetables, or both.
   - Simple: A rice dish cooked with spices and usually meat or vegetables mixed in.
   - _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._

## Origin

From Hindustani biryānī, from Classical Persian biryānī, formed from biryān meaning "roast" (from the verb birištan, "to roast") plus the suffix -ī.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/biryani (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).