Jaggery in Assamese: গুৰ (gur)
The Assamese word for jaggery, how it is said, what the powder and the palm kinds are called, and the dishes it goes into.
In short: Jaggery is called গুৰ (gur) in Assamese. Jaggery powder is গুৰৰ গুড়ি (guror guri). Said "goor".
The Assamese words for jaggery
| In English | In Assamese | In Latin letters |
|---|---|---|
| Jaggery | গুৰ | gur |
| Jaggery powder | গুৰৰ গুড়ি | guror guri |
| Sesame and jaggery rice roll | তিল পিঠা | til pitha |
| Curd, flattened rice and jaggery | দৈ চিৰা গুৰ | doi sira gur |
Assamese (অসমীয়া) is spoken in Assam.
Gur in the Assamese kitchen
Assamese writes the word with its own letter for r: গুৰ. Its place in the kitchen is the jolpan, the light meal of flattened or puffed rice eaten with curd and a piece of gur.
At Magh Bihu, the harvest festival of mid-January, gur goes into til pitha, thin rolls of rice flour wrapped around roasted sesame and jaggery, and into laru, the Assamese laddoo.
What it goes into
- Til pitha. Rice-flour rolls filled with sesame and gur, for Magh Bihu.
- Doi sira gur. Curd and flattened rice with jaggery.
- Laru. Laddoo of sesame or coconut.
Recipes on this site that cook with the same gur: til gur laddoo, gur ki kheer and peanut chikki. All of them are on the recipes page.
The same gur, delivered
Whatever a kitchen calls it, sugarcane jaggery is one food. Ours is made from cane grown in the Muzaffarnagar belt of Uttar Pradesh, crushed on a village kolhu and cooked in open iron kadhais with nothing added, and sent across India as a powder and as cubes.
Jaggery in other languages
- Jaggery in Hindi: गुड़ (gud or gur)
- Jaggery in Punjabi: ਗੁੜ (gur)
- Jaggery in Urdu: گڑ (gur)
- Jaggery in Marathi: गूळ (gul)
- Jaggery in Gujarati: ગોળ (gol)
- Jaggery in Bengali: গুড় (gur)
- Jaggery in Odia: ଗୁଡ଼ (guda)
- Jaggery in Assamese: গুৰ (gur)
- Jaggery in Tamil: வெல்லம் (vellam)
- Jaggery in Telugu: బెల్లం (bellam)
- Jaggery in Kannada: ಬೆಲ್ಲ (bella)
- Jaggery in Malayalam: ശർക്കര (sharkara)
Every language side by side: jaggery names in Indian languages.
Questions people ask
- What is jaggery called in Assamese?
- Jaggery is called গুৰ (gur) in Assamese. It is sugarcane juice boiled down until it sets, sold as a block, as cubes or as a powder.
- What is jaggery powder called in Assamese?
- গুৰৰ গুড়ি (guror guri). It is jaggery dried a little further and ground, so that it can be spooned and measured like sugar.