Etymology

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Today it means: A shop in the Netherlands selling mainly Asian food products, and generally Asian- or Indo-European-owned. Full definition →

Dutch toko ← Malay toko ← Hokkien 土庫 /土库
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The story

  1. Hokkien · derived from土庫 /土库“private storehouse”
  2. Malay · derived fromtoko“shop”
  3. Dutch · borrowed fromtoko“Southeast Asian grocery store”
  4. English todaytoko

From Dutch toko (“Southeast Asian grocery store”), from Malay toko (“shop”), from Hokkien 土庫 /土库 (thó͘-khò͘, “private storehouse”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.