Etymology

blimbing

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Malay belimbing
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The story

  1. Malay · borrowed frombelimbing“star fruit”
  2. English todayblimbing

From Malay belimbing (“star fruit”).

Words from the same roots

Malaybelimbing all →

belimbingbilimbi

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.