chawl

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Marathi चाळ (cāḷ), from Sanskrit.

Noun

chawl (plural chawls)

  1. A type of residential tenement building found in India, typically for poor working-class people.
    • 2016 June 19, “Tiger Shroff: My father is the original hero, he doesn’t have to try like me. I fake it.”, in The Times of India‎:
      I came from a chawl, and when I started out main zyada baat nahi karta tha, mera haath zyada chalta tha (both laugh!
    • 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 419:
      Dhirubhai Ambani's first home in Mumbai was nearly as humble as the ones the gawking labourers inhabit: a pigeonhole chawl four kilometres from Antilia, in the pushcart-clogged trading neighbourhood of Bhuleshwar.

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