modak

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

Noun

  1. An Indian sweet consisting of a flour-based outer skin filled with coconut and jaggery.
    • She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing. - 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181:

Origin

Borrowed from Hindi and Marathi मोदक (modak).

Forms

modaks