modak

noun

Meaning

An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.

Examples

She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.

Word Forms

modaks

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi and Marathi मोदक (modak).

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