bakwan

From Indonesian bakwan.

bakwan (plural bakwans)

1. A kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour.

From Hokkien 肉丸 (bah-oân, “meatball”), from 肉 (bah, “meat, flesh; pork”) + 丸 (oân, “pill”).

• IPA^(key): /baʔwan/
• Hyphenation: bak‧wan

bakwan (first-person possessive bakwanku, second-person possessive bakwanmu, third-person possessive bakwannya)

1. A kind of fritter from vegetables and wheat flour.

   Hypernym: gorengan

• “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.