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sambal

sambal noun: a hot relish made from chili peppers and other ingredients.

Noun (1)

sambal (countable and uncountable, plural sambals)

  1. A hot relish made from chili peppers and other ingredients.

Noun (2) capitalized: Sambal

Sambal (plural Sambals or Sambal)

  1. A member of a Filipino ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the province of Zambales and the Pangasinense municipalities of Bolinao and Anda.

Forms of sambal

pluralsambals
pluralSambals
pluralSambal
alternative formZambal

Origin of sambal

Borrowed, either directly or via Afrikaans sambal, from Malay sambal, from Javanese ꦱꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦭ꧀ (sambel).

Questions about sambal

What does sambal mean?
Sambal means a hot relish made from chili peppers and other ingredients.
What part of speech is sambal?
Sambal is a noun.
What is the plural of sambal?
The plural of sambal is sambals.

Words near sambal in the dictionary

  1. Sambag I
  2. Sambag II
  3. Sambahsa
  4. Sambahsa-Mundialect
  5. sambaing
  6. sambal
  7. sambali
  8. Sambalpur
  9. Sambalpuri
  10. sambals
  11. sambandham

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