betel bag

betel bag

English

A ceremonial betel bag from Indonesia

Noun

betel bag (plural betel bags)

1. A small bag of cloth, often decorated, originally used for carrying betel leaf in south-east Asia.

Translations

small bag

Chinese: Mandarin: 檳榔包／槟榔包 (bīnláng bāo) (no equivalent term exists) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: betel-pussi French: sac à bétel m Greek: ταγάρι (el) n (tagári) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Betel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Example from the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection