Definition of "dal"

dal

/dɑːl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dals
1. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
2. A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
  Quotations
  A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
  1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days‎
3. A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.