Etymology

Nyonya chang

Today it means: A variant of bak chang (zongzi) originating in Peranakan cuisine, made with minced pork, candied winter melons and sometimes roasted peanuts and blue pea flower extract for colour. Full definition →

Hokkien 娘惹粽 ← Malay nyonya
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The story

  1. Hokkien · derived from粽“rice dumpling wrapped in leaves”
  2. Malay · derived fromnyonya
  3. Hokkien · borrowed from娘惹粽
  4. English todayNyonya chang

Borrowed from Hokkien 娘惹粽 (niô͘-nia-chàng). Analysable as Nyonya (from Malay nyonya) + Hokkien 粽 (“rice dumpling wrapped in leaves”).

Words from the same roots

Malaynyonya all →

Nyonya

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.