chawl
English
Noun
chawl (plural chawls)
- A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
- 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 419:
- Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χau̯l/
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