155 Ta. appam, āppam round cake of rice flour and sugar fried in ghee, thin cake, wafer, bread; appacci sweetmeat (nursery). Ma. appam, āppam fried cake, wafer, bread. Ko. ap gal clay plate with 7 to 9 pits, about 3 inches across, for frying cake called piṭa·ṛ (made of wheat flour and solution of jaggery, and apparently the Ko. equivalent of Ta. appam) (for gal/kal, see 1305 Ta. kalam). Ka. appa rice cake; appacci a cake (term used by children). Tu. appa a kind of cake fried or baked. Te. appamu a kind of sweet cake; appaci, appacci a cake. ? Br. appā children's food. / Cf. Turner, CDIAL, no. 491, Skt. apūpá-. DED(S) 132.