Daliya meaning in English, Hindi and Indian languages

Dalia and daliya are two spellings of one Hindi word; daliya means broken wheat, whole wheat grains cracked into small pieces. IFCT 2017 prints the name in thirteen language columns; eleven carry a word for dalia and two are blank. In Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Assamese and Urdu the printed name is Dalia; Marathi has Bulgur gahu, Gujarati Bulgur ghaum, Kannada Bulgur godhi, Telugu Bulgur and Tamil Godumai ravai. Malayalam and Sanskrit have no printed name in the list. The grain itself, its nutrition and its cooking are covered on the broken wheat hub page.

Source: IFCT 2017 (ICMR-NIN) local-names list. — means no name recorded in the source.

Hindi ‘Daliya’: spelling variant of the IFCT 2017 name ‘Dalia’.

Dalia in English is broken wheat; IFCT 2017's English column prints wheat, bulgur. The botanical name is Triticum aestivum, the same species as the wheat that becomes atta. Broken wheat describes the making: the whole grain, cracked into small pieces rather than milled to flour, so each piece still carries the outer layers of the grain. One detail separates dalia from the bulgur of other kitchens: bulgur is parboiled before it is cracked, and Indian dalia is cracked without that step.

On an Indian pack the English line may read broken wheat, daliya or cracked wheat; all three mean the same food. If a label reads wheat daliya in English, it means broken wheat, and the dalia in English name printed in the food tables is wheat, bulgur. The closest published GI tests are Canadian entries for plain boiled bulgur, because the database holds no entry for plain Indian dalia.

North: Dalia in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu

IFCT 2017 prints Dalia for Hindi, and the same word for Punjabi and Urdu; the Hindi spelling daliya, with a y, is a common variant of the same name. Dalia meaning in Hindi, then, is simply broken wheat.

East: Dalia in Bengali, Odia and Assamese

The three eastern rows all print Dalia, so the word travels unchanged from Bengal to Assam. The list records no separate Odia or Assamese word.

West: Bulgur gahu in Marathi, Bulgur ghaum in Gujarati

Both western names pair the word bulgur with the local word for wheat: gahu in Marathi and ghaum in Gujarati. Dalia meaning in Marathi is therefore bulgur gahu, and in Gujarati bulgur ghaum.

South: Bulgur godhi in Kannada, Bulgur in Telugu, Godumai ravai in Tamil

Kannada follows the western pattern with Bulgur godhi, Telugu prints plain Bulgur, and the dalia in Tamil name column prints Godumai ravai. IFCT prints Godumai as the Tamil name for whole wheat; dalia meaning in Telugu is Bulgur. Malayalam and Sanskrit are blank in the list, so no name is printed for either.

• Atta: whole wheat milled to flour. Dalia is the same grain broken into pieces instead. IFCT lists the whole grain as wheat, whole, with the Hindi name gehun.
• Rava (sooji): wheat milled into coarse grains, used for upma and sweets. Dalia is the whole grain cracked into pieces, so the two are not the same product.
• Chana dal: a pulse, not a cereal. Chana dal is split bengal gram, printed by IFCT as Bengal gram, dal with the Hindi name Chan-ki-dal; dalia is broken wheat, a cereal. Only the word dal is shared.
• Bulgur: the name on the English row. Bulgur is cracked wheat that is parboiled first; dalia is cracked without parboiling, so the two are near relatives rather than one food.

The two sides of the grain, names and nutrition, come together on the dalia protein page; recipes for the cracked grain are in the dalia recipes roundup.

Dalia is whole wheat grain broken into small pieces. Cracking, rather than milling to flour, is the difference between dalia and atta, and it is why the English name is broken wheat. Unlike bulgur, dalia is not parboiled before it is cracked.

Because the grain is cracked rather than milled, cooking is quick for a whole grain: about ten to fifteen minutes of simmering, or two to three pressure-cooker whistles for khichdi. The full method, khichdi, upma and porridge water ratios included, is in the cooking guide for broken wheat.

What is dalia called in english?

Broken wheat, and in the food tables wheat, bulgur (IFCT 2017). The botanical name is Triticum aestivum. Indian packs print broken wheat, daliya or cracked wheat on the English line, and all three mean the same cracked whole wheat.

What is dalia made of?

Wheat. Dalia is whole wheat grains cracked into small pieces, and it is not parboiled like bulgur. It is sold as dalia or broken wheat. Because it is wheat, dalia carries gluten like any wheat food.

Is broken wheat and dalia same?

Yes. Broken wheat is the English name and dalia (also spelled daliya) the Hindi one for the same cracked whole wheat. IFCT 2017 prints wheat, bulgur on the English row and Dalia on the Hindi row of the same food.

Difference between chana dal and dalia?

Chana dal is a pulse and dalia is a cereal. Chana dal is split bengal gram (IFCT prints Bengal gram, dal, with the Hindi name Chan-ki-dal), a pulse eaten as a dal; dalia is broken wheat, a grain. The two share only the word dal.

What is broken wheat?

Wheat that is broken instead of milled: whole wheat grains cracked into small pieces, sold as dalia in India and cooked as khichdi, upma and porridge. The food tables print it as wheat, bulgur, and the botanical name is Triticum aestivum.

Does broken wheat have gluten?

Yes, because dalia is a wheat food. The NHS lists three gluten cereals — wheat, barley and rye — and their gluten is what triggers coeliac disease, so anyone on the gluten-free diet the condition calls for should skip dalia and check packs for cross-contact warnings.