lontong

English

Noun

lontong (uncountable)

1. An Indonesian dish of rice compressed into a cylinder and wrapped in a banana leaf.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lɔntɔŋ]
• Hyphenation: lón‧tóng

Etymology 1

Noun

lontong (plural lontong-lontong)

1. a kind of rice cake, wrapped inside a banana leaf, then boiled until cooked, served as staple food

Etymology 2

From Javanese ꦭꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦛꦺꦴꦁ (lonthong).

Noun

lontong (plural lontong-lontong)

1. a type of belt in Javanese traditional clothing

Further reading

• “lontong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.