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Mulligatawny

2 stages from Tamil to English.

Today it means a spiced soup of South Indian origin, often made with meat and vegetables
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milagu thanni
Tamil · medieval
"pepper water"
literally "pepper water", a spiced soup
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mulligatawny
English · 1700s-1800s
"a spiced meat and vegetable soup"
adapted by the British in colonial India into a spiced soup
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