Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote [ at 06:00 PM 11/13/2006 ] :
> nitpick: bendha kaalu is boiled or steamed beans.
so what sort of beans are we talking about exactly? (green) beans
[1]? dried beans [2]? or chana dal which is what occurred to me,
not knowing the kannada etymology of bengal i thought it may refer
to bengal gram (apparently very good for diabetics [3]).
Any of the above, really. Need not be beans, too. "Kaalu" is an all
purpose word for seeds or legumes. It can even be generalised to mean
'grain' or a small particle of some sort.
Udhay
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