rojak
noun
rojak is a noun meaning “A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-J-A-K, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rojak is rojaks.
What does rojak mean?
noun
- 1
A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
- 2
slangA person of mixed ethnic heritage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rojak
- rojaks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rojak?
Rojak appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does rojak come from?
From Dutch roedjak, from Javanese ꦫꦸꦗꦏ꧀ (rujak), from Old Javanese rujak.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).