Etymology

blatjang

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Today it means: A spicy South African chutney. Full definition →

Afrikaans blatjang ← Malay belacan
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The story

  1. Malay · derived frombelacan
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromblatjang
  3. English todayblatjang

Borrowed from Afrikaans blatjang, from Malay belacan.

Words from the same roots

Malaybelacan all →

balachongbalichaobelachan

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.