دال

दाल dāl[S. दलं , rt. दल् 'to split,' etc.], s.f. Split pea (of mūṅg, arhar, and other kinds of pulse, much used for food); split pulse; pulse, lentils, vetches;—a black or dark spot (resembling dāl, in anything); focus (of rays of light);—a crust, scale, scab:—dāl bandhnā(-kī), A scab to form;—a focus (of light) to be formed:—dāl-ćapātī, s.f. Boiled pulse and bread:—dāl-daliyā, s.m. Poor diet, coarse fare; pot-luck; something, some small gain:—dālroṭī, s.f. Bread and dāl; food, sustenance, livelihood:—dāl galnā(-kisī-kī), 'The dālto become soft in boiling'; to have an advantage, to avail; to succeed; to keep in (with), to get on (with):—dāl-meṅkućh kālā, '(There is) something black (as a fly or the like) in the dāl`; (there is) something wrong or suspicious (in the affair, etc.), something amiss (here):—dālwālā, s.m. (f. -ī), A dealer in pulse, etc.:—āṭā-dāl, s.m. Flour and dāl; food, livelihood:—patlīdāl-kākhāne-wālā, s.m. 'One who lives on pulse boiled thin and watery'; a feeble person; a baniyā.