rojak
English
Noun
rojak (countable and uncountable, plural rojaks)
- (cooking) A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
- (Malaysia, slang) A person of mixed ethnic heritage.
Malay
Etymology
From Javanese ꦫꦸꦗꦏ꧀ (rujak), from Old Javanese rujak.
Noun
rojak (Jawi spelling روجق, informal 1st possessive rojakku, 2nd possessive rojakmu, 3rd possessive rojaknya)
- (cooking) rojak: A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
- (colloquial, Indonesia) A mixture, mishmash.
- Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan Bee Hoon, Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN
- "it meant a rojak (mishmash) of races"
- Faiz Sathi Abdullah, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan Bee Hoon, Critical Perspectives on Language and Discourse in the New World Order, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN
Alternative forms
- rujak (Indonesian)
Descendants
- → English: rojak
Further reading
- “rojak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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