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tongkonan

tongkonan noun: the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people of Indonesia, built on piles, with a large boat-shaped roof.

Noun

tongkonan (plural tongkonans or tongkonan)

  1. The traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people of Indonesia, built on piles, with a large boat-shaped roof.

Forms of tongkonan

pluraltongkonans
pluraltongkonan

Questions about tongkonan

What does tongkonan mean?
Tongkonan means the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people of Indonesia, built on piles, with a large boat-shaped roof.
What part of speech is tongkonan?
Tongkonan is a noun.
What is the plural of tongkonan?
The plural of tongkonan is tongkonans.

Words near tongkonan in the dictionary

  1. Tongio
  2. tongkang
  3. tongkangs
  4. Tongking
  5. Tongko
  6. tongkonan
  7. tongkonans
  8. Tongliang
  9. Tongliao
  10. Tongling
  11. tongman

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