Home › Words › A › appomappom/ɑˈpɒm/appom means A type of sweet fried flat bread made from rice flour.appom is pronounced /ɑˈpɒm/.EtymologyFrom Tamil அப்பம் (appam).nounA type of sweet fried flat bread made from rice flour.e.g.“However, the Prata stall owners or the push-cart hawkers selling foodstuffs like thosai and appom were mainly Malabar Muslim immigrants from Edna village in Kerala.” — 2011, Jayati Bhattacharya, Beyond the Myth: Indian Business Communities in Singapore, page 59:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.appam 72% match — A thin South Asian pancake made from rice flour and coconut vs appom →appalam 65% match — poppadom vs appom →papri 65% match — A crisp fried dough wafer made from refined white flour and oil, eaten in India. vs appom →uthappam 64% match — A pancake made from rice and lentil flour with tomatoes, spices etc. vs appom →ampaw 63% match — A Filipino sweet puffed rice cake. vs appom →papad 63% match — A poppadom. vs appom →bobbatlu 61% match — A kind of sweet Indian flatbread. vs appom →parotta 60% match — A layered flatbread of parts of South Asia, made with maida flour. vs appom →