chawl
noun/tʃɔːl/
/tʃɔːl/
(Indian English, South-East Asian English)- (in South Asia) a large building divided into many separate apartments, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourersTopics Buildingsc2Word OriginFrom Marathi cāḷ, denoting a long narrow building.
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