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This is probably a misspelling for darchini, i.e. cinnamon

It's not a misspelling: the Hindi word is dalchini, and the Bengali word is darchini.

That's interesting, because my Urdu speaking family in Karachi always says darchini for some reason.

I've always heard it pronounced as "dalchini", in Hindi and three different regional languages (Bengali, Odia, and Marathi).

Interesting. We always say "darchini" too.