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modak

modak noun: an Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.

Noun

modak (countable and uncountable, plural modaks)

  1. An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.
    • She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181

modak meaning in Punjabi and Gujarati

modak in Punjabi

modak
ਮੋਦਕ modak

modak in Gujarati

modak
મોદક modak

Forms of modak

pluralmodaks

Origin of modak

Borrowed from Hindi and Marathi मोदक (modak).

Questions about modak

What does modak mean?
Modak means an Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.
What is modak in Punjabi?
Modak in Punjabi is ਮੋਦਕ (modak). See Modak meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is modak?
Modak is a noun.
What is the plural of modak?
The plural of modak is modaks.

Words near modak in the dictionary

  1. mod.
  2. mod.F.
  3. modacrylic
  4. modacrylics
  5. modafinil
  6. modak
  7. modaks
  8. modal
  9. modal adverb
  10. modal adverbs
  11. modal auxiliaries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: modak (page history and authors); ਮੋਦਕ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); મોદક (Gujarati) (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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