Word.ws English Dictionary

songkok

songkok noun: an Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.

Noun

songkok (plural songkoks)

  1. An Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.
    • He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302
    • Short and thick set, he almost invariably dressed in a Western business suit or a safari jacket once he gave up his military uniform, and a black songkok, the flat traditional Indonesian cap.2008 January 28, Marilyn Berger, “Suharto Dies at 86; Indonesian Dictator Brought Order and Bloodshed”, in New York Times

Forms of songkok

pluralsongkoks

Origin of songkok

From Malay songkok.

Questions about songkok

What does songkok mean?
Songkok means an Asian cap resembling a fez, worn mostly by male Muslims.
What part of speech is songkok?
Songkok is a noun.
What is the plural of songkok?
The plural of songkok is songkoks.

Words near songkok in the dictionary

  1. songish
  2. Songjiang
  3. songket
  4. songkets
  5. Songkhla
  6. songkok
  7. songkoks
  8. Songkran
  9. songland
  10. songlark
  11. songlarks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: songkok (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “songkok.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/songkok. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.