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"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar". Put some in your lentils for added yum.

• selimthegrim 11y ago
  This is probably a misspelling for darchini, i.e. cinnamon
  • shrikant 11y ago
    It's not a misspelling: the Hindi word is dalchini, and the Bengali word is darchini.
    • selimthegrim 11y ago
      That's interesting, because my Urdu speaking family in Karachi always says darchini for some reason. cf. http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.3:1:5612.platts http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.p...
  • pritambaral 11y ago
    I've always heard it pronounced as "dalchini", in Hindi and three different regional languages (Bengali, Odia, and Marathi).
    • jalayir 11y ago
      Interesting. We always say "darchini" too.
• ruchi 11y ago
  Native speaker here. Dalchini is the correct Hindi word for cinnamon. Think of it as the English word underdog.