palabok

Tagalog

Etymology

From pa- +‎ labok.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /paˈlabok/ [pɐˈlaː.bok̚]
  • Rhymes: -abok
  • Syllabification: pa‧la‧bok

Noun

palabok (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜊᜓᜃ᜔)

  1. a thick gelatinous sauce of tomato mix in cassava starch usually with powdered dried shrimps or smoked fish topped over pancit noodles in some pancit dishes (such as pancit palabok, pancit luglog, pancit malabon, etc.)
  2. ellipsis of pansit palabok
  3. (figurative) flowery elaborations or expressions
    Synonyms: bulaklak, palamuti

Derived terms

  • ispabok
  • pansit palabok

See also

Verb

palabok (complete pinalabok, progressive pinapalabok, contemplative papalabok, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜊᜓᜃ᜔)

  1. (informal) short for ipalabok

Verb

palabok (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜊᜓᜃ᜔)

  1. (imperative, colloquial) short for pakilabok
  2. (transitive, colloquial) short for nagpalabok

Further reading

  • “palabok”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “palabok”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1794
  • Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 754
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.