What is "dal"

Dal \Dal\ (d[aum]l), n. [Hind.] Split pulse, esp. of Cajanus Indicus. [East Indies]

1690s, from Hindi dal "split pulse," from Sanskrit dala, from dal "to split."

n. (alternative spelling of dahl English)

n. a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters [syn: dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, decalitre, dkl]

Dal is an Indian food, often made from lentils.

Dal or DAL may also refer to:

In places:

• Dal, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Dal, Kurdistan, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Dal, Norway, a village in Eidsvoll, Norway
• Dal Hundred, a hundred of Östergötland, Sweden
• Dal River, a river in Sweden
• Dál, the Hungarian name for Deal village, Câlnic Commune, Alba County, Romania
• Dal Lake, a lake in India
• Dal, a village in Ke Chong, Cambodia
• Dallas, Texas

In other uses:

• dal or daL, the symbol for decalitre
• Ḏāl, an Arabic letter
• Dal (letter) or Dalet, a letter in many Semitic alphabets
• Dal (Doctor Who), a fictional alien race in Doctor Who
• DALnet, a large IRC network
• Dalhousie University, a university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Data access layer, a software architecture layer
• Database abstraction layer, a software architecture layer
• Design Assurance Level
• Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminster
• Direct Algebraic Logic (D.A.L.), SHARP's terminology for a method for entering equations on scientific calculators which allows symbols and numbers to be entered as they are written.
• Dallas Love Field's IATA code
• Delta Air Lines's ICAO code
• Dal people one of the scheduled tribes of India
• Dal or dahl, a dish or preparation of lentils or other pulses
• Dal Doll, a type of Korean Pullip doll
• Dal, a character in The Tribe
• Date A Live, a Japanese light novel series.
• Deutsche Afrika-Linien, a German shipping company based in Hamburg

(, also be transcribed as ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents . In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 700 (see abjad numerals).The Arabic letter ذ is named ذال . It is written is several ways depending in its position in the word: The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for , .

When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as .

This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is normally rendered " dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in English words it is one of the pronunciations occurring for the letters " th".

Dal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Gözde Dal, Turkish volleyball player
• Nedim Dal, Turkish basketball player
• Oleg Dal, Soviet actor
• Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer

Dal or Dhal is a dried pulse ( lentil, pea or various types of bean) which has been split.

The outer hull is usually stripped off; dal that has not been hulled is described as chilka (skin), e.g. chilka urad dal, mung dal chilka. The word dal is also used to name the thick stew prepared from these pulses, an important part of Indian, Nepali, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi cuisine. Dal or lentils is staple food eaten with rice and roti or chapati (wheat-based flat bread) throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal where Dal Bhat (literally: dhal and rice) is the staple food for much of the population. Dal is a ready source of proteins for a balanced diet containing no meat.