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bakwan.

a kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour

6 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/baʔwan/
  1. a kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour

Where this word comes from

From Hokkien 肉圓 /肉圆 (bah-oân, “meatball”) or 肉丸 (bah-oân, “meatball”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.