Definition of "chula"

chula

noun
plural chulas
1. (Bangladesh, India) A hearth, stove, or other traditional cooking-place.
  Quotations
  After conducting feed back surveys, it was established that success will not depend on maximum number of chulhas installed but also on after installation care and follow up measures to ensure that skill transfer in installation and operation of chulhas has appropriately taken place and any other difficulty and problem has been overcome.
  1996, Rahul Mudgal, Economic Dimensions of Rural Development, page 228
  When the basket was full, she carried it back and emptied it next to the outdoor chula where she did most of her cooking.
  2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, page 6
  Saroj was crouched over her small choolah, flattening dough between her palms, stretching it with her fingers, before slapping it onto the hot tawa to make chapattis.
  2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 68