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suman

suman noun: rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.

Noun

suman (uncountable)

  1. Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.

Proper noun capitalized: Suman

Suman (plural Sumans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of suman

pluralSumans
alternative formSumon

Origin of suman

From Tagalog suman.

From Middle English Seman, Sæmann, from Old English sǣmann (“seaman”). Possibly conflated with Old English Sǣmund (“sea-protector”) and Old English Siġemund (“victory-protector”).

Questions about suman

What does suman mean?
Suman means rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.
What part of speech is suman?
Suman can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near suman in the dictionary

  1. Sumain
  2. Sumains
  3. sumak
  4. Sumalang
  5. Sumali
  6. suman
  7. Sumana
  8. sumanene
  9. Sumangga
  10. Sumans
  11. Sumapang Matanda

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