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bibingka

bibingka noun: a rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves.

bibingka: a rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves
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Noun

bibingka (countable and uncountable, plural bibingkas)

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

Forms of bibingka

pluralbibingkas

Origin of bibingka

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.

Questions about bibingka

What does bibingka mean?
Bibingka means a rice cake made using rice flour, sugar and coconut milk and wrapped in banana leaves.
What part of speech is bibingka?
Bibingka is a noun.
What is the plural of bibingka?
The plural of bibingka is bibingkas.

Words near bibingka in the dictionary

  1. bibimbaps
  2. bibimbop
  3. bibimpap
  4. bibimpaps
  5. Bibincahan
  6. bibingka
  7. bibingkas
  8. bibionid
  9. bibionids
  10. bibiri
  11. bibirine

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