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tinolas

tinolas is the plural of tinola.

Meaning of tinola

Noun

tinola (usually uncountable, plural tinolas)

  1. (Philippines, usually) A Filipino soup traditionally cooked with chicken or fish, wedges of papaya or chayote or both, and leaves of the siling labuyo chili pepper in broth flavored with ginger, onions, and fish sauce, and usually served as a main course with white rice.
    • It is a gala day for the adult male Filipino. He goes to mass, thence to his dinner of tinola, a soup and a stew of chicken in one, and then to the cock fight.1901 December 15, “The Day in the Philippines: There Is a Mass in the Morning, Cock Fighting and Gambling the Rest of the Day”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 54, number 116, St. Louis, Mo....

Questions about tinolas

What is tinolas the plural of?
Tinolas is the plural of tinola.

Words near tinolas in the dictionary

  1. Tinoco
  2. Tinocos
  3. tinodontid
  4. tinodontids
  5. tinola
  6. tinolas
  7. Tinonee
  8. tinopener
  9. tinopeners
  10. tinoridine
  11. Tinos

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