dal

Noun

1. Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.
2. A dish made from lentils, cooked with spices, tomatoes and onions etc.
   • A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins. - 1934, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Burmese Days:
3. A tropical herb with yellow flowers; the pigeon pea.