Jaggery in Odia: ଗୁଡ଼ (guda)
The Odia 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 ଗୁଡ଼ (guda) in Odia. Jaggery powder is ଗୁଡ଼ ଗୁଣ୍ଡ (guda gunda). Said in two syllables, "gu-da", with a flapped d. It is also written gura.
The Odia words for jaggery
| In English | In Odia | In Latin letters |
|---|---|---|
| Jaggery | ଗୁଡ଼ | guda |
| Jaggery powder | ଗୁଡ଼ ଗୁଣ୍ଡ | guda gunda |
| Date palm jaggery | ଖଜୁରି ଗୁଡ଼ | khajuri guda |
| Rice and jaggery cakes | ପିଠା | pitha |
Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) is spoken in Odisha.
Guda in the Odia kitchen
Odia keeps the final vowel that Hindi dropped, so the word is ଗୁଡ଼, guda, much as it was in Sanskrit.
It belongs above all to pitha, the rice cakes made for every Odia festival. Arisa pitha is rice flour and jaggery fried in ghee. Poda pitha, made for Raja, is a batter of rice, urad, coconut and guda baked slowly until the crust turns dark.
What it goes into
- Arisa pitha. Rice flour and jaggery, fried crisp.
- Poda pitha. A slow-baked cake of rice, lentil, coconut and jaggery, for Raja.
- Kakara pitha. Fried semolina shells with a coconut and jaggery filling.
- Khiri. Rice pudding, sweetened with guda.
Recipes on this site that cook with the same gur: gur ki kheer, gulgule and thekua. 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 Odia?
- Jaggery is called ଗୁଡ଼ (guda) in Odia. 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 Odia?
- ଗୁଡ଼ ଗୁଣ୍ଡ (guda gunda). It is jaggery dried a little further and ground, so that it can be spooned and measured like sugar.
- Is guda the same as gur?
- Yes. ଗୁଡ଼ made from sugarcane and the gur of north India are the same food under two names. ShuddhGaon’s comes from cane grown in the Muzaffarnagar belt of Uttar Pradesh and is delivered across India.