bakwan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Indonesian bakwan.
Noun[edit]
bakwan (plural bakwans)
- A kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour.
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hokkien 肉丸 (bah-oân, “meatball”), from 肉 (bah, “meat, flesh; pork”) + 丸 (oân, “pill”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bakwan (first-person possessive bakwanku, second-person possessive bakwanmu, third-person possessive bakwannya)
- A kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour.
- Hypernym: gorengan
Further reading[edit]
- “bakwan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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