avokad

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• avokat, advokat, adpokat (nonstandard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch avocado, from American Spanish avocado, from earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈvokad/ [aˈfo.kat̪̚]
• Rhymes: -okad
• Syllabification: a‧vo‧kad

Noun

avokad

1. synonym of alpukat (“avocado”)

Further reading

• “avokad”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016