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lepat.

a snack made from sticky rice and grated coconut and salted, wrapped in young coconut leaves, shaped like a cylinder and boiled

5 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ləˈpat/Standard-Indonesian[ləˈpat̪̚]Standard-Indonesian
  1. a snack made from sticky rice and grated coconut and salted, wrapped in young coconut leaves, shaped like a cylinder and boiled

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay lepat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lepet (“wrapped packet of cooked rice”) (Western).

noun/ləˈpat/Standard-Indonesian[ləˈpat̪̚]Standard-Indonesian
  1. inside the elbow joint

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Modang [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lepet (“to fold”).

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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.