idli

From Tamil இட்லி (iṭli), Kannada ಇಡ್ಲಿ (iḍli).

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idli (plural idlis)

1. A South Asian cake made from rice and lentils, whose ground mixture is fermented and steamed in a mold.
   • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 414:

     “My aunty will probably send you a million idlis, too, once I tell her you ate all of mine.”

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “idli”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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