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telo.

strips of parboiled and then fried cassava

4 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. strips of parboiled and then fried cassava

    masculine · no-diminutive · uncountable
  2. a meal containing telo as a side dish, usually with a serving of a green vegetable such as yardlong bean, and a serving of fish, such as sprats or salt cod

    Suriname · countable · masculine · metonymically · no-diminutive
  3. a snack consisting of telo and a small serving of salt cod

    Netherlands · countable · masculine · metonymically · no-diminutive
Where this word comes from

From Caribbean Javanese telo, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦭ (téla), a variant of ꦏꦠꦺꦭ (katéla), a word for non-native tuberous plants that was borrowed from Portuguese Castela and thus ultimately derives from Latin castellum, making this a doublet of ketella, kasteel, chateau, Castilië, Kessel, and castellum. Cognate to Indonesian ketela.

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