Lost in Translation

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Smitha

Will someone please tell me what sense does it make ….

…to write ‘Chawal Podi’ in Hindi? And I just realized that I can’t recall the word for powder in Hindi!

54 thoughts on “Lost in Translation”

Pixie on February 18, 2011 at 5:49 am said:

me first!! 😀

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- Pixie on February 18, 2011 at 5:51 am said:
  
  😆
  Podi!! I was wondering about it too!!
  can’t think of the word! 😀
  
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  - Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:27 am said:
    
    So I am not the only one 🙂
    
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Saritha on February 18, 2011 at 5:57 am said:

Ha ha ha

Maybe chooran

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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:28 am said:
  
  That’s what everybody else says to 🙂
  
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Pepper on February 18, 2011 at 6:00 am said:

LOL! It doesn’t make sense. But I don’t think they ever cared about that 😀

Yeah, I don’t know what powder is in hindi either.

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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:26 am said:
  
  Same pinch then , Pepper 🙂
  
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Tara on February 18, 2011 at 6:10 am said:

like gehu ka aatta, bajra ka aatta, maybe we can call it chawal ka aatta.. but yes for rice, even i hv started referring it as rice podi, whatever that means..

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- Ashwathy on February 18, 2011 at 6:23 am said:
  
  Chawal ka atta… hmm sounds self-contradictory, dont u think? 😀
  
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- Smita on February 18, 2011 at 6:55 am said:
  
  Chawal ka atta sounds perfect! 🙂
  
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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:26 am said:
  
  LOL! Tara, atleast it made sense to you 🙂
  
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  - Tanishka on February 19, 2011 at 10:37 am said:
    
    Chawal ka atta is the right word… 🙂
    
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Smita on February 18, 2011 at 6:53 am said:

😀

Powder in hindi is powder only but if you really wanna know then you can say “chura” which really doesn’t make sense 😀

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- monikamanchanda on February 18, 2011 at 10:23 am said:
  
  chura is what I was going to say too… edible powdery items are churas or more commonly atta
  
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  - Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:25 am said:
    
    I know 🙂 They should have just written powder in hindi, if they wanted to write at all 🙂
    
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- Tanishka on February 19, 2011 at 10:38 am said:
  
  Even I was gonna write “chura” 😀
  
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S on February 18, 2011 at 7:28 am said:

haha.. let’s not talk about translations and spellings found in india 😀
and as for powder.. I donno either… I googled 😛 it says “Chooran” or “Burada” Quite close actually 🙂

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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:25 am said:
  
  They should have just written powder in Hindi 🙂 Rather than writing ‘podi’ in Hindi 🙂
  
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Dee on February 18, 2011 at 8:32 am said:

Lol! Podi …but tht is what we say in Tamil ! 🙂 Strange!!!

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- UmaS on February 18, 2011 at 9:14 am said:
  
  Indy, but we say “Arisi Mavu” in tamil for rice flour !!! Hai na ???
  
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  - Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:24 am said:
    
    we call it Ari podi in Malayalam 🙂
    
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  - Dee on February 18, 2011 at 11:54 am said:
    
    Yes tht is right Uma ! But when something is powdered down we also say podi…like vattal podi etc ?
    
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Swaram on February 18, 2011 at 8:52 am said:

I do think they can call it chawal ka atta though!
What special thing did u make with that Smithu 😉 I luvv rotis that we make with chawal ka atta 😀

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- UmaS on February 18, 2011 at 9:15 am said:
  
  Akki roti, right ???
  
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  - Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 10:51 am said:
    
    Haven’t had akki roti in ages! My aunt used to make them.
    
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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 10:51 am said:
  
  Making puttu today, Swaram 🙂
  
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UmaS on February 18, 2011 at 9:16 am said:

Yeah…podi is being used so commonly now…

I dont know the word for it in hindi….

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Bindu on February 18, 2011 at 9:34 am said:

A very familiar packet! Did you make appam or puttu with it?
As for podi, what is in a name, right? 😉

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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 10:50 am said:
  
  I was trying to make puttu. Making it today 🙂
  
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Bikram on February 18, 2011 at 11:03 am said:

no idea i was actually confused cause i have never heard this word before… Now that i am thinking i cant think of a word for powder in hindi 🙂

and to be frank i did not even know there was something called RICE POWDER.. so what did U cook .. Forget about the word lets come to the business end of it.. WHAT did you coook …. he hehehe

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- Smitha on February 18, 2011 at 11:23 am said:
  
  LOL! We cook a lot of things with it 🙂 I am making puttu today 🙂
  
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Shilpa Garg on February 18, 2011 at 1:38 pm said:

LOL @ the pic and the conversation in the comments above!! 😀
It has to be Chaawal ka Atta … though Powder in hindi is Choorna! 🙂

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Writerzblock on February 18, 2011 at 4:15 pm said:

Lol, what is the right word? I thought of all the things possible, but only came up with ‘masala’, which is SOOOO NOT podi. Btw, when is the Puttu recipe coming up?

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Dev on February 18, 2011 at 5:25 pm said:

Non-sense
😉

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bedazzled on February 18, 2011 at 5:33 pm said:

lol! never noticed this before.Good spot !

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Ram Pyaari on February 18, 2011 at 8:02 pm said:

how about mishran?

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Pepper on February 18, 2011 at 11:30 pm said:

You are making Puttu? My husband is so fond of it, he’d fall at your feet to get some 😛 Is it very difficult to make? Do you think I can attempt it? Can you please mail me the recipe, if at all?

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vimmuuu on February 19, 2011 at 2:55 am said:

but isnt that written Chaawal Poodi; poodi as in ‘go away,woman’ ??

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- kanagu on February 19, 2011 at 10:08 pm said:
  
  What interpretation 😀 😀
  
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Goofy Mumma on February 19, 2011 at 7:03 am said:

chawal ka ata!

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Tanishka on February 19, 2011 at 10:40 am said:

Hardly matters what the translation is…;) Whats important is what will be made out of it and how yummy would that taste…. 😀 😀

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kanagu on February 19, 2011 at 10:09 pm said:

My Hindi knowledge doesn;t permit me to think Smitha 😀 😀

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the ghost who eats on February 20, 2011 at 6:18 am said:

Its chawal bura… not the bad wala bura but powder wala bura !!

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Psych Babbler on February 20, 2011 at 8:25 am said:

Come to think of it, I don’t know the Hindi word for powder either. I refer to it as ‘podi’ as well… 😛

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Krishna Leela on February 20, 2011 at 1:55 pm said:

I am seeing the hindi translation for the first time . Is it atta ? 😀

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priyaiyer on February 21, 2011 at 5:49 am said:

LOL
It should be chawal ka atta…

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Lakshmi Rajan on February 21, 2011 at 7:00 am said:

Puttu, Papad, boiled moong dal, banana, sugar and good amount of desi ghee YUMMMM!!!!

Also my fav is Puttu with Channa gravy !!!

And ya, I just checked with my wife how to call Rice powder in Hindi. She smsd from her office and the sms goes as :

“O teri this is tough one… Pise hue chawal”

Now upto Hindi pundits to settle this matter 😉

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- Smitha on February 21, 2011 at 11:14 am said:
  
  Now you are making me droool with all those puttu combinations 🙂 Yes, I gues it’s best to let the Hindi Pandits to decide 🙂
  
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hypermom on February 21, 2011 at 7:41 am said:

well as long as every one knows what it means, does it matter?

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- Smitha on February 21, 2011 at 11:33 am said:
  
  That is certainly true 🙂
  
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Indian Homemaker on February 24, 2011 at 11:49 am said:

Makes no sense. Powder is ‘powder’ in Hindi also, although some might pronounce it as ‘Paauuder’.

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PNA on February 25, 2011 at 12:54 pm said:

😀 😛 Chawal podi… what is this Mal-ndi (Mal+Hindi) some kind of acculturation 😛

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Badz on March 8, 2011 at 1:25 am said:

Interesting. I can’t read any of it except the english so I will not even attempt to give you translations. 😛
BUT everyone’s comments are VERY EDUCATIONAL. 😀

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Reema on March 22, 2011 at 6:26 pm said:

powder is chooran or burada but instead chawal ka aata seems better.

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