bebinca

English

Alternative forms

Noun

bebinca (uncountable)

  1. A traditional Indian pudding made with coconut milk and garnished with almonds, and served warm.

Macanese

Alternative forms

  • bebinga

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly from Konkani [script needed] (bibik), or borrowed from Malay bingka (“Malay cake made of rice flour, coconut cream, eggs and sugar”), entering Macanese via Indo-Portuguese with reduplication of the first syllable.[1] Likely not related to Portuguese beber (“to drink”). Compare Indonesian kue bingka, Tagalog bibingka, Cebuano bibingka, Hiligaynon bibingka, Spanish vivinca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛˈbin.ka/, /bɛˈbiŋ.ka/

Noun

bebinca

  1. pudding, cake (sweet or savoury)
    bebinca di lete ― milk pudding
    bebinca di nabo, bebinca-rábano ― turnip cake
    bebinca-pulú ― glutinous rice cake

Usage notes

  • This is a generic term for any sort of pudding or cake, and does not necessarily pertain to the Indo-Portuguese dessert.
  • bebinca di nabo and bebinca-rábano are equivalent to Cantonese 蘿蔔糕 / 萝卜糕 (lo4 baak6 gou1), whence also a Macanese derivation lo-pac-cou.

References

  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “bebinca”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 309

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