bibingka

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noun

A rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves.

OriginTagalog bibingka ← Malay bingka →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounbibingka (countable and uncountable, plural bibingkas)

plural bibingkas

  1. countableuncountableA rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves.
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    Nearly two years after starting work on their century-old building on Girard Avenue […] the lechon sisig bowls, ensaymada, and bibingka are expected to roll out of the kitchen starting Feb. 8. […] Besides house-made pastries such as calamansi doughnuts, ensaymada, bibingka, and ube handpies, breakfast options will include the Rich Tita with pork longganisa (a sausage similar to chorizo), egg, and Cooper sharp cheese; […]

    2025 January 25, Michael Klein, “Long-awaited Filipino destination finally has an opening date”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 195, number 239, Philadelphia, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B9, columns 1 and 4

Origin

  1. Malaybingka“cake made of rice flour, coconut milk, eggs and palm sugar”
  2. Tagalogbibingka
  3. Englishbibingka

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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APA

bibingka. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bibingka

MLA

“bibingka.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bibingka. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bibingka,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bibingka.

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