lengkeng

Indonesian

lengkeng

Etymology

From Hokkien 龍眼 / 龙眼 (lêng-kéng, “longan”, literally “dragon eye”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈleŋkeŋ/ [ˈleŋ.kɛŋ]
• Rhymes: -eŋkeŋ
• Syllabification: leng‧keng

Noun

lengkeng (plural lengkeng-lengkeng)

1. longan

Alternative forms

• klengkeng

Synonyms

• longan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

• “lengkeng”, 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