Djamor

Djamor is an archaic or variant spelling related to the Indonesian word jamur, which means mushroom. The term is occasionally encountered in older Indonesian or Malay texts that used historical orthography. In contemporary Indonesian, the standard spelling is jamur.

Historically, Indonesian and Malay orthography used the digraph dj to represent the sound [d͡ʒ], and such spellings appear in older writings. As spelling reforms took hold in the 20th century, the form jamur became the accepted modern standard, and djamor (if encountered) is typically noted as a historical variant.

Today, jamur is the normal term in Indonesian and Malay for a mushroom, referring to the edible and non-edible fungi’s fruiting body. The word applies to both wild and cultivated mushrooms and is used across culinary and biological contexts.

In Indonesian cuisine, common mushrooms include jamur tiram (oyster mushroom), jamur kuping (wood ear), and jamur merang (Pleurotus pulmonarius). These varieties illustrate the broad culinary role mushrooms play in regional dishes and markets.

See also jamur.