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fuzztester on July 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japanese words of Portuguese origin

>the Portuguese "pão" (bread)

In India, the word pao or pav in street food / snacks like vada pav and pav bhaji, probably comes from the Portuguese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vada_pav

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pav_bhaji

My favorite variant is khada pav bhaji, in which the vegetables are in chunks, not mashed.

jghn on July 20, 2023 [–]

That's interesting. I would have assumed they were cognate from PIE but it appears not.

fuzztester on July 20, 2023 | [–]

The icing on the vada pav is the fried chillis, so to to speak.

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