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kottu

kottu noun: a Sri Lankan dish made with roti, vegetables, eggs, meat, etc.

Noun

kottu (uncountable)

  1. A Sri Lankan dish made with roti, vegetables, eggs, meat, etc.
    • String hopper kottu, or gossamer rice-flour noodles, are molded with vegetables into a pyramid.2015 July 24, Julie Besonen, “Two Good Reasons to Visit St. George: The National Lighthouse Museum and Sri Lankan Food”, in New York Times

kottu meaning in Tamil

kottu in Tamil

kottu, a Sri Lankan dish
கொத்து kottu

Forms of kottu

alternative formkotthu

Origin of kottu

From Tamil கொத்து (kottu).

Questions about kottu

What does kottu mean?
Kottu means a Sri Lankan dish made with roti, vegetables, eggs, meat, etc.
What is kottu in Tamil?
Kottu in Tamil is கொத்து (kottu). See Kottu meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kottu?
Kottu is a noun.

Words near kottu in the dictionary

  1. kotthu
  2. Kottke
  3. Kottkes
  4. Kottler
  5. Kottmeyer
  6. kottu
  7. Kottwitz
  8. Kottwitzes
  9. kotuku
  10. kotukutuku
  11. kotukutukus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kottu (page history and authors); கொத்து (Tamil) (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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