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sincamas

sincamas is the alternative form of singkamas.

Meaning of singkamas

Noun

singkamas (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) Synonym of jicama.
    • If all of the 35 kinds could have been handled by one stand, the average sales for the year would have amounted to P2,904; sales from boiled green corn, singkamas, lanzones, Carabao mango, pineapple, and watermelon would have represented more than two-thirds of the total.1952, The Philippine Agriculturist, volume 36, page 199
    Synonyms:
    jicama

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Origin of sincamas

From Philippine Spanish síncamas, from Early Modern Spanish jícamas, plural of jícama (“jicama”), from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.

Questions about sincamas

What is sincamas the alternative form of?
Sincamas is the alternative form of singkamas.

Words near sincamas in the dictionary

  1. sinbins
  2. sinbyeong
  3. sinc
  4. sincalide
  5. sincaline
  6. sincamas
  7. Sincapore
  8. sincarpal
  9. since
  10. since Adam was a boy
  11. since Adam was an oakum boy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sincamas (page history and authors); singkamas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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