Etymology

pantoum

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Today it means: A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next. Full definition →

French pantoum ← Malay pantun
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The story

  1. Malay · derived frompantun
  2. French · borrowed frompantoum
  3. English todaypantoum

From French pantoum, from Malay pantun.

Words from the same roots

Malaypantun all →

pantun

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.