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語源 1

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit. Doublet of cell.

名詞

chawl (plural chawls)

1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
   • 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India‎:

     I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!

   • 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.

語源 2

From 中期英語 chaule, chavel, from 古期英語 ċeafl (“jaw, jowl”). More at jowl.

名詞

chawl (plural chawls)

1. (UK, dialectal, of a person) Jaw or cheek.
2. (UK, dialectal, of an animal) Jowl; cheek; face.

アナグラム

• Walch