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sappan

sappan is the alternative form of sapan.

Meaning of sapan

Noun

sapan (usually uncountable, plural sapans)

  1. (usually) Wood of a timber tree of species Biancaea sappan (syn. Caesalpinia sappan) that also produces a red dye.

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Forms of sappan

pluralsappans

Words formed from sappan

Questions about sappan

What is sappan the alternative form of?
Sappan is the alternative form of sapan.

Words near sappan in the dictionary

  1. sappadilloes
  2. sappadillos
  3. Sappadino
  4. sappadu
  5. sappadus
  6. sappan
  7. sappans
  8. sappanwood
  9. sappar
  10. sappare
  11. sapped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sappan (page history and authors); sapan (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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