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vadouvan

vadouvan noun: a paste of burnt garlic and onion with herbs, from India; a type of masala.

Noun

vadouvan (uncountable)

  1. A paste of burnt garlic and onion with herbs, from India; a type of masala.

vadouvan meaning in Tamil

vadouvan in Tamil

vadouvan, a mixture of various spices and herbs that are blended into a paste before it is sun-dried, commonly used in South Indian cooking
வடகம் vaṭakam

Origin of vadouvan

Borrowed from French vadouvan, from Tamil வடகம் (vaṭakam).

Questions about vadouvan

What does vadouvan mean?
Vadouvan means a paste of burnt garlic and onion with herbs, from India; a type of masala.
What is vadouvan in Tamil?
Vadouvan in Tamil is வடகம் (vaṭakam). See Vadouvan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vadouvan?
Vadouvan is a noun.

Words near vadouvan in the dictionary

  1. Vado
  2. vadocaine
  3. Vadodara
  4. vadose
  5. vadosity
  6. vadouvan
  7. vadralogue
  8. vadralogues
  9. VADs
  10. Vadsø
  11. Vadu Crișului

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vadouvan (page history and authors); வடகம் (Tamil) (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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