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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An East Indian soup having a meat or chicken base and curry seasoning.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A famous East Indian soup made of meat or fowl, strongly flavored with curry. Also spelled mullatgatawny.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See mullagatawny.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base

Etymologies

  1. Transliteration of Tamil மூலிகைத்தன்னீர் "pepper water". (Wiktionary)
  2. Tamil miḷagutaṇṇī : miḷagu, pepper + taṇṇīr, cool water (taṇ, cool + ṇīr, water). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • ravages tamil "milagu" (மிளக�?) = pepper, and tamil "thanni" (தண�?ணீர�?) = water.
    Dec 15, 2007

  • arby I love this word! It sounds very Irish/Scottish/Gaelic to me, but AmHer sez it's all Indian:
    ETYMOLOGY: Tamil miaguta : miagu, pepper + tar, cool water ( ta, cool + r, water). May 6, 2007

  • jax One of my favorites.... Jan 9, 2007

  • brtom Pungent mockturtle oxtail mulligatawny. I'm hungry too.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 8 Jan 3, 2007

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