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say it: pee-LAHF
pilaf is a noun meaning "rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes". It is pronounced /ˌpiˈlɑf/ — pee-LAHF. It carries one recorded sense.
rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pilaf come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.