brinjal
(India, South Asia, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore) An aubergine or eggplant.
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(India, South Asia, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore) An aubergine or eggplant.
Hindustan produces abundance of wheat, and throughout India the natives are plentifully supplied with vegetables and fruit; the brinjal, tomato, yam, carrot, radish, onion, garlic, spinach cabbage, nowkohl, cucumbers, and other gourds, m…
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(India, Trinidad and Tobago, cooking) brinjal, eggplant, aubergine.
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The Indian English and Hindi word for eggplant or aubergine, also known as brinjal in South Asian and Southeast Asian English. Baingan is one of the most common vegetables in Indian cooking, featured prominently in dishes like baingan bharta (a smoky roasted eggplant preparation) and begun bhaja (fried eggplant). While considered uncommon as a loanword in international English, it is completely standard in Indian domestic contexts and widely understood across South Asia.
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(US, Canada, AU, NZ, Philippines) The plant or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
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(British, Ireland) An Asian plant, , cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.