Where does “lumpia” come from?

lumpia (English) comes from Indonesian lumpia, from Malay lumpia, from Hokkien 潤餅.

lumpia (English): A kind of spring roll

Definitions

  1. A kind of spring roll

Ancestry of “lumpia”, step by step

lumpia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian lumpia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianlumpialumpia
2Malaylumpia—
3Hokkien潤餅—

via Tagalog lumpiya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagaloglumpiyalumpia

Words derived from “lumpia”

Every word from Hokkien 潤餅 →Every word from Malay lumpia →Every word from Indonesian lumpia →