biko

biko

1. A sweet rice cake from the Philippines, made with coconut milk and brown sugar.

• Kibo, kibo, Boki

biko

1. locative singular of bi

• IPA^(key): /biˈkoʔ/ [biˈkoʔ]
• Hyphenation: bi‧ko

bikô (plural biriko, Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. alternative form of tiko

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiko/ [ˈbi.ko]
• Hyphenation: bi‧ko

Borrowed from Hokkien 米糕 (bí-ko, “rice cake”).

biko (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. dish of sticky rice cooked in coconut milk and brown sugar

biko (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. to cook biko
2. to use an ingredient for biko

biko (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. hopscotch

biko (Badlit spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. to play hopscotch

For quotations using this term, see Citations:biko.

From bi- +‎ -ko (“accusative case marker that marks the direct object of a clause or sentence”)

biko

1. him, her(accusative singular of bia (“he, she”))

bikò

1. pardon!
2. please!

• Michael J. C. Echeruo (2001) “biko”, in Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language with an English-Igbo Index, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria: Longman Nigeria Plc, →ISBN, page 32

biko m (plural bikos)

1. (anatomy) beak

Borrowed from Hokkien 米糕 (bí-ko, “rice cake”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbiko/ [ˈbiː.xo]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: bi‧ko

biko (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜃᜓ)

1. biko (type of rice cake)

   Synonyms: sinukmani, sukmani, (Rizal) bibingka

• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 16

• kibo