Etymology

bibingka

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Today it means: A rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves. Full definition →

Tagalog bibingka ← Malay bingka
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The story

  1. Malay · derived frombingka“cake made of rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and palm sugar”
  2. Tagalog · borrowed frombibingka
  3. English todaybibingka

From Tagalog bibingka, from Malay bingka (“cake made of rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and palm sugar”), as in Malay kuih bingka. See also Indonesian kue bingka, Macanese bebinca.

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