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jilapi

jilapi is the alternative form of jalebi.

Meaning of jalebi

Noun

jalebi (plural jalebis)

  1. A sweet popular in the Indian subcontinent, made by deep-frying a maida flour batter and soaking it in sugar syrup.
    • You will not believe how quickly jalebis can be made. I have used yeast to ferment the jalebi batter quickly and so it does not require to be left for a day to ferment. The trick here is to immediately start frying the jalebis once the batter has rested for 10 minutes.2000, Tarla Dalal, Chaat, page 98

Forms of jilapi

pluraljilapis

Origin of jilapi

Borrowed from Bengali জিলাপি (jilapi).

Questions about jilapi

What is jilapi the alternative form of?
Jilapi is the alternative form of jalebi.

Words near jilapi in the dictionary

  1. jilaabah
  2. jilaabahs
  3. jilabi
  4. jilabis
  5. Jilam
  6. jilapi
  7. jilapis
  8. jilaudar
  9. jilaudars
  10. jilbaab
  11. jilbaabs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jilapi (page history and authors); jalebi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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